3RD ANNUAL SUMMER SAFETY CHALLENGE Published May 30, 2017 By 48th Fighter Wing Safety Office ROYAL AIR FORCE LAKENHEATH, England -- The 48th Fighter Wing has officially begun it's Summer Safety Challenge! The competition, which concludes on Sept. 4, focuses on staying safe, while having fun and perhaps a little ‘jingle’ in your squadron’s pocket. Last year, the Wing Commander presented the 48 AMXS with a check for $4,800 for winning the Challenge, a $1,947 check to 48 OSS for second place, and a $1,283 check to 48 CMS for third. Free money for minimizing risk and ensuring the safety of your airmen-too easy!! Below, tasks are listed and assigned a point value. Procedures and timelines are explained under each task. As a precaution keep copies of everything until a winner is announced. Please adhere to the guidelines. Wing Safety reserves the right to accept/reject submissions that are deemed unsuitable for the purpose of the Summer Safety Challenge. If you have suggestions please submit them, and they will be considered for next year's challenge. The guidelines for this year's challenge are firm. SAFETY CHALLENGE Between May 29th and September 4th, each squadron will compete for the "Summer Safety Trophy." This trophy will be moved around each year as a new squadron wins. A unit rep is recommended to facilitate this challenge. This will help ensure your unit is competitive to win. If you are a small squadron don't worry, the points will be weighted to give you a fair chance to win. The weighted system is reflected below: If your squadron size is: Over 300 personnel you are considered: Large Between 200 and 300 personnel you are considered: Medium Under 200 personnel you are considered: Small Prizes: Large: $4,000 Medium: $3,000 Small: $2,000 Note: Unit size is based off of all Officers, Enlisted, GS, and LNDH minus TDY personnel on 29 May 17. Also, restrictions may apply in how cash prizes can be used so 48 CPTS stands ready to answer any questions regarding the authorized ways cash prizes can be executed. Safety Challenge events: Item Points Max Allowed Submit a squadron safety commercial 500 One Submission Each unit will be allowed to submit one self-made safety commercial. Only one commercial will be selected to air on AFN and receive the 500 points. This will be selected based on an amount of "likes" a video receives. Video voting will be on the AFN UK Facebook page the week of 28 Aug- 1 Sep 17. Provide all commercials to wing safety before 25 Aug 17. Commercials must be 15 or 30 seconds exactly. Only music provided by AFN UK will be allowed in commercials. Provide all commercials to wing safety on a desk in the highest record quality available. Contact AFN UK at 226-7060 to obtain approved music. Item Points Max Allowed Submit a safety article 10 (submitted) 25 (published) 200 Each safety article written will receive 10 points. Any attempt to get an article published is worth rewarding, so additional 25 points will be rewarded if your article gets selected to be in the paper. Please ensure that the article is between 200-500 words. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited, and any articles found plagiarizing will not receive any points. Run each submission through the Safety Office prior to presenting it to Public Affairs. Item Points Max Allowed Conduct a Risk Assessment Survey (Unit related) 40 200 Conduct a Risk Assessment Survey (Outside of Unit) 80 400 Take an opportunity to review workplace tasks/procedures and determine if there are ways to improve the application of risk management. Conduct the assessment using AF Form 4437, Deliberate Risk Assessment Worksheet and upon completion of the assessment, send the completed AF Form 4437 to the 48 FW/SEG organizational mailbox. AF Form 4437 are valid for tasks/missions that do not have official guidance already in place (T.O's, AFI's, JSA's, etc). At any time during the assessment, surveyors can contact safety for questions or concerns. Item Points Max Allowed Perform self-inspection of work area 50 400 Using a provided Wing Safety inspection checklist, conduct an inspection of your own work areas. Each area can only be inspected once during the challenge, and must be at least 2,000 sq feet of area or an entire section. Safety will tailor each checklist based off of areas desiring to inspect, thus a request must be made a week prior. All self-inspection findings will be reported to safety for applicable RAC and follow-up actions. Item Points Max Allowed Receive Safety award 100 N/A All 48 FW safety awards won since last year’s Summer Safety challenge ended will be considered for this item. Item Points Max Allowed Invite Safety to CC Call 100 300 With your Commanders approval, invite Wing Safety to brief on high interest safety topic. This can be conducted once a month; so for example, one brief a month and a total of three months in the Summer Safety Challenge would give you the maximum points allowed. Item Points Max Allowed Draw or create a computer generated safety poster 50 (published) 150 Be creative, and avoid pre-made posters. If a poster looks like a simple image found on google, its likely points will not be awarded. Remember that Safety is attempting to be positive, so avoid negative/consequential images. Submit these posters to the Safety Office for approval, and after the work receives the “Green Light,” post in your squadron for others to see. The unit will only receive published points if the poster is posted on the digital safety screen. Item Points Max Allowed Organize a unit or base safety event 100/400 500 This can be accomplished in several ways. Here are some examples: Conduct an event that teaches/trains personnel on how to properly, and safely, perform an activity/job/sport/etc. Coordinate with wing safety prior to conducting a base level event. They should be separate from fire prevention week or other pre-planned functional related type of events. Item Points Max Allowed Attend an Hosted Safety Course 15 per person per class N/A Bring a lunch to a free safety course! An OSHA awareness course will be offered throughout the summer at building 1082. Space is limited to 30 personnel, so first come, first served. Most courses are about 30 minutes long. Points will only be given once per person, per course. The courses will be offered at various days, so ask your USR for details of which courses are coming up so you can take one yourself. Item Points Max Allowed Motorcycle Safety 25 per person N/A Once a month, a motorcycle safety event will be held at RAF Feltwell building 37. The event will focus on a personal T-CLOCS inspection, riding advice, and tips on how to safely operate on the public roadways. This is only offered once a month, on the first Thursday between 0900-1100. No need to sign up, but it will be a first come, first served bases. Item Points Max Allowed Child Seat Inspection 25 per person N/A During the month of June and July there will be opportunities twice a month to have a child car seat inspection done for your POV. A certified car seat technician will be providing a thorough and in-depth inspection and installation of your car seat. Request must be made in advance to de-conflict scheduling concerns. Call 226- 3737 or email 48FW.SEG@us.af.mil to request your inspection. Item Points Max Allowed Safety Innovation 750 N/A Safety will team up with the Wing Continuous Process Improvement and validate all submissions. Innovation ideas must be actionable to be considered. Provide the estimated cost to implement the idea. This could be money and/or time. Don’t forget to include the amount of people this will affect. Is it a flight idea that only personnel in a flight will benefit from or the wing benefit from it? Remember, this is a safety innovation, so it must be safety related. Unit Deductions: Units can lose points for the following items. These items are not negotiable and are at the discretion of Wing Safety. Item Point Deduction Distracted/Using Mobile Device while Operating vehicle -100 DUIs -100 BONUS, BONUS, BONUS During the random spot inspections conducted by wing safety, if an individual or activity is “Caught in the Act” of doing the right thing with regards to safety, we will award 50 bonus points to that unit. There is no limit to how many bonus points can be obtained. To receive credit, all events must be communicated to the Safety Office on a weekly basis by COB each Friday for the previous week’s events. For example, a USR will provide a listing of events on Friday, 9 Jun from the week of 2-8 Jun. We want the competition to be fair, so 48 FW Safety will serve as the officiating authority. All submitted items will be judged to ensure it is in line with the intent of improving safety awareness and culture. With the onset of summer, the trend of mishaps could rise and along with that, so must the safety campaign. The Summer Safety Challenge extends from the beginning of Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. 48 FW Safety, 226-3737