PSNS & IMF announces new safety management system

BREMERTON, Wash. — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility formally announced the establishment of a new safety management system in a signing event May 29.

The PSNS & IMF Safety Management System is a result of new Navy requirements for the establishment of a centralized safety program that consolidates the management of the shipyard’s safety culture in one location.

The signing included shipyard leadership and members of the Safety Executive Steering Committee.

“This system provides a foundation for the safety culture that is expected and demanded in our complex work environment,” said Cody Matheson, PSNS & IMF’s deputy director for environment, safety and health.

PSNS & IMF has continually supported the infrastructure for the SMS in the myriad of programs, procedures and processes that already exist throughout the shipyard.

“Other than formally documenting the management of PSNS & IMF’s safety culture in one location, there is nothing new that we have to do as a result of the SMS,” said Matheson.