Army Corps Of Engineers Model: Accident Prevention Plan

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The Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) model Accident Prevention Plan (APP) is taken directly from the Health and Safety Requirements manual known as EM 385-1-1 commonly referred to as EM 385. For the purposes of this essay EM 385 will be used exclusively as well as the abbreviation APP for the remainder of this paper. Parsons has an overarching corporate level Environmental, Safety, Health and Risk Plan that is affectionately referred to as simply ESHARP and that is the term that will be used throughout.
The Accident Prevention Plan The ACOE APP is an all-inclusive approach to safety management that leaves little room for exclusion, they have done their utmost to try and foresee every possible project and obstacle to every contract. The APP …show more content…
Although, heavily scripted the EM 385 APP methodology does have good provisions for identifying hazards and for describing in detail how identified hazards will be mitigated. Section 4.6 of the Parsons APP for Fort Stewart denotes the Pre-Task Safety and Activity Hazard Analysis section (Hughes, 2017). Activity Hazard Analysis (AHA) is the heartbeat of every APP and the method required by the ACOE for determining what hazards are present in each step of each task. For instance one of the AHA’s (General Site Construction Operations) identifies site preparation as a job step and the risk to site preparation is slips, trips and falls. In another area of the AHA under that same step of site preparations, heat and cold stress are identified as hazards. In still another place within the same AHA under the job step of General Construction Activities we find electric shock, ergonomics hazards associated with lifting, bending and reaching as well as pinch points are identified as hazards (Hughes, 2017). Detailed checklists were developed earlier in this program and in reference to those checklists there is a section on fire protection. The Fort Stewart APP, in section 9.2 entitled Emergency Plans identifies the risks of fire and what subcontract personnel will do in the event of a fire at their workplace. …show more content…
Contracts are won and lost based on a number of different criteria including technical capabilities to perform the work, the projected costs weighed against the bid proposal, the ability to adequately staff a project and most assuredly the trust factors that include integrity. Corporately Parsons has a set of core values. Those core values are quality, safety, diversity, sustainability, innovation and integrity. Pride is taken in the fact that Parsons has been identified in 2017 by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the World’s Most Ethical companies for the eighth consecutive year. Parsons corporate credo reads as follows
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