1: Safety and Health
Protect the safety of our people and facilities and the health of our workforce Other Information:
Safety is critical to NASA’s quest to expand frontiers in aeronautics and space. Safety is one of our four core values. NASA
intends to become the Nation’s leader in work force safety and occupational health and the safety of the products and services
we provide. Our strategy is to ensure that safety permeates every aspect of NASA work and that we routinely incorporate safety
and health principles and practices into our daily decision making. By focusing on the safety of NASA’s mission and operations,
we will also improve quality and decrease costs and schedules over the long run. Our safety priorities are safety for the
public, astronauts and pilots, employees, and the high-value equipment in our care. The primary means by which we will achieve
safety across these priorities are the following : - Management commitment and employee involvement in preventing mishaps
- System and worksite hazard analysis - Hazard prevention and control - Safety and health training We will also further develop
our use of risk management practices to identify, analyze, plan for, track, and control risks, both to improve safety and
to enhance the likelihood of mission success. As part of this effort, we intend to develop the U.S. Government’s premier Probabilistic
Risk Assessment capability.
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