What We Do

                                     
 
We provide transparent, professional and comprehensive assurance services to the Naval Enterprise.
 

OVERVIEW

The Naval Enterprise averaged a $1.4 billion loss in property damage and injuries as well as 108 lives lost each year over the last decade. The ability to properly identify and manage risk directly causes or contributes to most mishaps. To improve risk management culture, the Navy established the Naval Safety Command (formerly Naval Safety Center) in 2022 to enhance our ability to identify, communicate and account for risk. We meet this mission through four primary tasks:

• Assessments
• Investigations (mishap investigations to determine causal factors)

• Data Management and Analysis

• Policy Development

NAVSAFECOM follows five lines of effort directed by the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO): 

• Establish a standardized Echelon I safety and management policy.

• Continually assess overall risk control management effectiveness of the Naval Enterprise.

• Assure proper and effective accountability of safety management across the Naval Enterprise.

• Collect data and independently analyze it to assess the effectiveness of the Naval Risk Control System.

• Compel an understanding of cumulative and systemic risk and when warranted, communicate and account for risk at the appropriate level.

SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The Navy employs a unified and resilient Safety Management System (SMS) founded on risk controls. The SMS is designed ensure leaders are aware of risks and enables decisive risk management to ensure operational excellence through continuous improvement.

• An effective SMS avoids unnecessary harm to people or damage to equipment. Avoiding unnecessary loss is vital to maintaining force readiness and preserving our nation’s assets.

• The modern SMS shifts the Navy’s view of safety from a Safety and Occupational Health-centric collection of programs to a risk-centered approach emphasizing management of risk and issues.

• This risk-centered approach acknowledges that operational success results from successful risk management. The deliberate design of this industry-proven approach drives Sailors and Marines to employ risk management and learning into daily decision-making.

SMS Info Paper

ASSESSMENT PROCESS
Our three-tier third party assessment process determines whether an assessed command identifies, communicates and accounts for risk at the appropriate level. 

• The three assessment tiers are our way of assuring the SMS is effective, and that the command is Safe to Operate and Operating Safely.

• Aligned with the CNO’s Get Real, Get Better initiative, we promote transparency by informing senior leadership of our assessment results so they can take informed action to improve their risk posture and unit readiness.

Assurance and Assessment Info Paper
Safe to Operate, Operating Safely Info Paper
Defense-in-Depth Info Paper                                 

DATA AND ANALYTICS
We perform modeling and in-depth risk analysis to inform the Naval Enterprise on safety-related data to help prevent mishaps. Predictive analysis modeling provides a tool for identifying potential risk factors within commands. 

• Our analysts use predictive analytics machine learning models, which, when tested against unseen data, demonstrate the ability to differentiate between a Mishap Unit and an Excellent Unit.
• Our teams train machine learning models on two features: Operational Volatility (OPVOL) and Experience. (In machine learning, a feature is a unique, measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon.)

Data Analytics Info Paper