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MANNHEIM, Germany – With the collaboration of senior leaders from the Army’s Field Support Battalion in Poland and the prime contractor performing Army-2’s pre-positioned inventory operations at the Coleman APS-2 worksite, a new people’s workforce protection has been established at the site. .
Herbert Gately, Coleman’s site manager, and Maxx Henderson, Coleman’s senior contractor safety manager, conduct bi-weekly protective visits to Coleman to get feedback from the group of on-site painters related to guarding in their respective painting areas.
With the feedback and advice from workers they collect, AFSBn-Poland’s top control can identify quick results that will help the overall quality of execution as well as protection control in the workplace, Gately said.
“The main goal is painter ownership, and getting feedback directly from painters is very vital to the good luck of any quality control and protection program, because they’re the ones who are at the outlets regularly,” Gately said. Painting spaces create an environment in which painters who control superiors listen and understand. “
Recently, Gately and Henderson visited a domain where floor appliances are stored and repaired, as well as other domains that host similar trades.
At the floor assist site, workers were asked about the correct torque techniques and were able to explain them intensively to Gately and Henderson. The GSE manager has created an undeniable approach to show mechanics how to adjust torque specifications depending on the circumstances. This has been known through the contractor as a smart practice and deserves to be shared with other APS-2 sites under the Army’s 405th Field Support Brigade and beyond.
In the area of similar trades, the painters explained to Gately and Henderson that while they work hard to keep the workshop blank and tidy, it’s still too full of projects, many of which are already finished. Coleman’s security team has been notified of your feedback and paintings are being done lately to move finished projects to the required sections.
“When workers see innovations through their feedback, they take even more ownership of the program,” Gately said. “That’s how it works, and that’s precisely what we need to do. “
Gately said he brought this concept of senior leadership protection visits to the Coleman APS-2 structure site and the 405th AFSB at an earlier project in Fort Cavazos, Texas. There, he brought the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Programs. , or VPP.
According to OSHA’s website, voluntary coverage systems recognize employers and personnel and federal agencies that have implemented effective defense and fitness monitoring systems and keep injury and illness rates below the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national averages for their respective industries.
Recently, the Director of Global Posture Policy at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Dorothy Ohl, visited the site of the Coleman APS-2 structure, at a former airfield in Mannheim, to get a first-hand glimpse of what the long-term infrastructure of the site is expected to look like and talk about infrastructure investment plans being made there.
Building on the 405th AFSB’s regional alignment and transformation initiative, the German Army’s Field Support Battalion is expected to take command of the Coleman APS-2 worksite project later this year, and AFSBn-Poland will move operations to Powidz, Poland, where the Long Term Equipment Storage and Maintenance Complex is located.
The 405th AFSB is assigned to the U. S. Army Sustainment Command. Headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Alemania. La brigade supplies relief material to U. S. forces in Europe and Africa, providing sustainment logistics in the theater of operations; synchronize procurement, logistics, and technology; and leverage the U. S. Army Materiel Command’s hardware business. U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assist the joint forces. For more information on the 405th AFSB, visit the official online page and the official online Facebook page.