Wednesday January 25, 2006
The Army Combat Readiness Center's safety campaign Own the Edge is in full swing.
Since the CRC campaign's start in October, it has been educating Soldiers on how to better mange risk to safely accomplish their combat or training missions and off-duty activities.
It is part of the Composite Risk Management program to highlight the critical importance of safety consciousness for Soldiers. The goal of the campaign is to improve combat readiness of the individual Soldier, whereby preserving total combat power across the Army's formations.
- The "Own the Edge" campaign consists of a two-part strategy. One is audience- specific, targeting three separate groups: senior leaders, middle leaders and junior leaders/Soldiers, each emphasizing the impact and importance of their actions.
- The other strategy is knowledge-based: emphasizing CRC tools and programs to support and improve the commander's CRM program.
As the CRC continues to serve as a knowledge center for loss across the Army and study deaths to determine root causes, CRC officials said the following trends emerge: Junior leaders are the ones making decisions "where the rubber meets the road" that determine safe execution or unnecessary loss. And failure to apply and enforce the most basic standards and indiscipline is killing Soldiers.
The measurement tool for how the campaign is doing can be seen in the number of Soldier fatalitiesd. CRC develops and disseminates weekly "Got Risk?" posters summarizing the preliminary loss reports for the previous week.
For more information, see the web brochure .
Source: ARNEWS article
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