Things Aren't Always As They Appear, A new maintainer to the Hornet
community finds out how easy it is to miss a small error.
By AO1(AW) Joe Cool
Stickball Is Played Best in the Street, Coast Guard maintainers play an
impromptu game of stickball. The games goes bad, and the damage is worse.
By Lt. Brian Wetzell, USCG
Failure Under Pressure, The double entendre is appropriate. Bad
judgment during maintenance and a paperwork error lead to a mishap.
By AD2 R. Vasquez-Martinez
Seeing Is Believing, We proved again that a thump test doesn't work,
hasn't worked, and never will work.
By AD2 Mark Preszler
Getting the Drop on a Shipmate, Another rushed job leads to a dropped
tank and an injured maintainer.
By AO1(AW) Allen Davis
From NAM to Numb, Wire checks are another good way to drop tanks or
bomb racks, as this Navy Achievement Medal winner found out.
By AT2 Erik Neff
Stick With the Basics, A chief warrant officer finds out that his
highly trained team has a few chinks in the armor.
By CWO2 Corey Chisholm
Tail Rotor Meets Hangar Door, Two Sailors see that a roll-up door isn't
up fully, but they move a helo anyway.
By AD3 Benjamin Nelson
Complacency on Cruise, When things get too routine, Sailors being to
act like zombies and mistakes can add up.
By AE2(AW) Thomas Hebert
It Takes Only One Person to Notice, Three simple, everyday hazards
cause two Sailors to take action and to find simple solutions.
By AT2 Benjamin Mathe and AT2 Daniel Lehmann.
Surviving a Rear-End Collision, A Sailor recounts a bad accident and
offers lessons learned to his fellow shipmates.
By AM1(AW) Bruce Barclay
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Too Many Senseless Mishaps and Injuries, The Commander, Naval Safety
Center reflects on the good and not-so-good things that have happened in
the first year of our two-year mishap challenge.
RADM Dick Brooks
Good, Bad and Ugly: Around the Fleet, Three photos and captions about
safety issues seen around the fleet.
Work Zone: Saving Your Eyesight, Fifty-two incidents of eye injuries in
one year are 52 too many.
Survey Spotlight: Workbench Requirements That Might Get
Overlooked, A
maintenance analyst from the Naval Safety Center shares a few lessons on
how to fix problems with workbenches.
By AVCM(AW/SW) Willie Burnett
Air Wing Toolbox: Corrosion Repairs Using the Radial Bristle
Disc, An update to an earlier Mech article on the safety and
overall benefits of this new technology.
By Thomas Doughty
Mishap Stats
New Navy Battery Test System Is Better and
Safer, Another new
technology story that will make Sailors' jobs easier, better, cleaner, and
safer.
By Jim Fountain
Bravo Zulu
VAQ-141, HS-75, HSL-47, VS-32, HS-2, HMM-25(REIN), HMX-1, SSSI Pensacola,
VAQ-135, HM-14, VF-143
Crossfeed
Maintenance experts sound off about avionics, maintenance management, and
publications
Web-Enabled Safety System, The latest tool to help report and track
mishaps, hazreps, and injuries is now available to the fleet.
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