SAFETY
What is a Hazard?
To give advance notice that a unit is to be moved. If time permits, the order is usually issued about 90 days in advance of the departure date. This time period allows subordinate units time to prepare for the move.
What is a WARNO (Warning order)?
Father of the Seabee’s
Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, decided to activate, organize and man construction battalions after the attack on Pearl Harbor, on 7 December 1941. He requested specific authority to carry out his decision. On 5 January 1942 he gained the authority for the Bureau of Navigation to recruit men for the construction trades for assignment to the Naval Constructions Regiment.
Who is Rear Admiral Ben Morell?
Look to see if their airway is open with no obstructions. Listen and Feel for breaths by positioning your head over their mouth to feel breaths and observing for chest rise and fall. Check for pulse on wrist, neck, or thigh
What are the ABC'S to First Aid?
Subsistence and commercially bottled water.
➢ Clothing, individual equipment, tools, tool kits, tents, admin and housekeeping type supplies, as well as unclassified maps.
➢ POL includes bulk fuels and packaged products such as a
What are the first 3 classes of supply?
Accept risk when the benefit outweighs the cost
Accept no unnecessary risk
Anticipate and manage risks by planning
Make risk decisions at the right leve
What are the 4 principles of ORM?
The NMCB Supply Department in led by a Navy Supply Corps Officer and provides support to other departments and companies to include the following services: Financial management of the battalion’s budget
What is the S4?
Prior to 1941, the Civil Engineer Corps used private contractors to accomplish all overseas construction.
The contractors, in turn, hired steelworkers, electricians, carpenters, draftsman, and mechanics from private industry.
The Navy realized that, in the event of war, civilian contractors and construction workers could not be used very well outside our own country.
What led to the Creation of the seabees?
caused by an imbalance of electrolytes in the body from excessive sweating.
Symptoms: Cramping in the arms or legs,Stomach cramps ▪ Excessive sweating
What are Heat cramps?
Survey form as well as a report for lost, stolen, or damaged items.
What is a DD200?
Convenes quarterly to develop recommendations for policy in safety matters to analyze progress of the overall safety program. Consists of the CO or XO (Chairperson), the unit safety officer.
What are the functions of the safety council?
Provides rapid deployable and agile expeditionary forces, made up of active duty and reserve mission specialists, to warfare > commanders in support of maritime security operations around the globe.
What is the NECC (Naval Expeditionary Combat Command) ?
Medal of Honor recipient. He is the first Seabee in history to receive the Medal of Honor for his heroic efforts in defense of a Special Forces Camp and Vietnamese District Headquarters at DoNg Xoai.
Who is Marvin Shields?
Sunstroke is more accurately called ___ since it is not necessary to be exposed to the sun for this condition to develop. The most important factor of ____ is the extremely high body temperature, 105 F or higher, that accompanies its 20% mortality rate. Symptoms: ▪ Headache, nausea, dizziness, or weakness. ▪ Breathing may be deep and rapid and change to shallow and almost absent. ▪ Flushed, very dry and hot skin, constricted pupils and a fast, strong pulse.
What is Heat Stroke?
Manages all hand tools, power tools, tradesman’s tool kits, and other special tools. o Assets are kept under strict security because items are highly pilferable and can be easily converted to personal use
What is the CTR (Central Tool Room) ?
Required to be used with all electric hand tools
Detect a change in the flow of electricity and interrupt the circuit before any harm can be done to personnel.
Must trip at less than .5 mill amperes
Must be tested monthly to ensure proper function
What is a GFCI?
The battalion chaplain is a Navy chaplain corps lieutenant who serves as a principal assistant in promoting the religious programs of the unit.
Who is the X1?
Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient. Executed in June 1985 during the hijacking of a TWA jet in Lebanon after being singled out by terrorists for being in the military.
Who is SW2 (DV) Robert Stethem?
Requires immediate first aid treatment. A penetrating injury to the chest that produces a hole in the chest cavity, causing the lung to collapse, which prevents normal breathing functions. It is imperative the wound be sealed with an airtight dressing to prevent air from entering the chest cavity through the wound.
What is an Open Chest Wound?
A 13 digit stock number used to identify an item of material in the Federal Supply System. o Assigned by the Defense Logistics Service Center, Battle Creek, Michigan.
Chairman of the Occupational and Health (OSH) counsel, assumes the duties of the CO in his/her absence.
Acts as chairman for the OSH Policy Committee meeting.
Enforces the CO’s safety policies and procedures
Executive Officer
The direction or exercise of authority over subordinate or other organizations for administration and support actions. It is delegated and exercised by Service force commanders.
What is ADCON?
During the war’s Pacific island-hopping campaigns, over 10,000 Civil Engineer Corps officers and 240,000 enlisted men served in the Seabees, mostly in NCBs that were components of the five Marine engineer regiments employed from 1942 to 1944. From the construction and defense of Guadalcanal’s Henderson Field to the Normandy invasion, Seabees participated in most of the major Navy, Marine, and Army assaults, fighting in more than 400 locations in all theaters by the end of the war.
What was the significance of the Seabees in World War 2?
THE VICTIM NEEDS HEAT. Rewarm the victim as soon as possible. It may be necessary, however, to treat other injuries before the victim can be moved to a warmer place. Severe bleeding must be controlled and fractures splinted over clothing before the victim is moved. o When the victim is inside a warm place and is conscious, the most effective method of warming him is immersion in a tub of warm water (100°F to 105°F [38°C to 41°C]) or warm to the elbow-never hot). When a tub is not available, apply external heat to both sides of the victim,
What is the treatment for Hypothermia?
Property with a unit cost of $100,000 or more and useful life over two years. This term includes all Navy-owned real property and that realty not owned, but for which accountability is the responsibility of the Navy.
What is Plant Property?