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Spaceport News America's Gateway to the Universe MissionUpdate Vol. 36, No. 19 September 26, 1997 Cassini Spaceport News America's gateway to the universe. Leading the world in preparing and launching missions to Earth and beyond. John F. Kennedy Space Center KSC inaugurates safety philosophy learned from world's safest company Repair work completed: Damage to insulation on the Huygens probe Many of its products are was repaired in the Payload household names, such as Hazardous Servicing Facility. The Corian® countertops and assembled spacecraft was returned to Launch Complex 40 on surfaces. Others are common Cape Canaveral Air Station for to the space program, such as mating atop the Titan IV/Centaur Mylar® and Kevlar®. launch vehicle. The new launch synthetic materials. date is Oct. 13, with the launch window extending from 4:55 to 7:15 But did you know that the a.m. EDT. manufacturer of these and hundreds of other products, Delaware-based DuPont, is STS-87 one of the world's safest companies, if not the safest? Senior managers, including Center Director Roy Bridges Jr., were the first NASA/KSC Founded in 1802 near employees to participate in DuPont safety training, presented Sept. 17 by Harold Dey, Wilmington by French a former plant manager for DuPont. immigrant Eluthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours, the first CFC fund drive starts Oct. 1 DuPont product was gunpowder, which may explain This year's Combined bined for Caring. The goal is the company's commitment to Columbia (24th flight OV-102) Federal Campaign (CFC) for $200,000, and employees a safe working environment. 88th Shuttle flight NASA employees officially should receive their pledge DuPont has grown since Pad 39B begins with a kickoff rally in cards in early October. then to more than 180 sites Launch date: Nov. 19, 2:18 p.m. the KSC Training Auditorium This year's CFC volunteers USMP-4; Spartan 201-04 worldwide offering an array of The U.S. Microgravity Payload-4 Oct. 1 at 9 a.m. Center Direc- will have an opportunity to products that include (USMP-4) (above) undergoes tor Roy Bridges Jr., Marlins/ visit local United Way agen- chemicals, fibers, petroleum preflight processing in the Space Manatees official Ken Lehner cies, such as the Central and polymers. Station Processing Facility. The and United Way Director Rob Brevard Sharing Center for a tubular structure at left is the (See Safety, Page 2) Advanced Automated Directional Rains will be on hand to firsthand look at how CFC Solidification Furnace (AADSF), welcome attendees and present directly benefits people in the used to study the solidification of awards to the CFC slogan/ local community. The cam- Global Surveyor semiconductor materials in drawing winners. paign extends through the end microgravity. The drum element at arrives at Mars right is the Isothermal Dendritic This year's motto is Com- of October. Growth Experiment (IDGE), for the Mars Global Surveyor study of molten metals as they slipped into orbit solidify. around the Red Calling all space visionaries Planet on Sept. Planning is under way for with your fellow workers in 11, circling above Mars STS-89 the annual special issue of the Nov. 21 issue. Ideas — Spaceport News. This year's along with your name and a Pathfinder on theme is the future of space daytime phone number — the surface. Launched Nov. 7, Endeavour (12th flight OV-105) 1996, Global Surveyor is now 89th Shuttle flight exploration. What missions can be sent to Paula Shawa, Pad 39A will the United States pursue e-mail address Paula.Shawa- going through an aerobraking 8th Mir Docking in the next century, and what [email protected] or via process that will lower it to its Launch: Jan. 15, 1998, 1:03 a.m. vehicles will carry us there? regular mail to: final low-altitude orbit. In Crew: Wilcutt; Edwards; Dunbar; March 1998, the spacecraft Anderson; Reilly; Wolf (returning Should we return to the Paula Shawa from Mir). OV-105 will be the Moon, or head straight for Mail Code: SHER-11 will begin a mapping mission second orbiter to dock with Mir. Mars? What is your vision of Kennedy Space Center, of the surface that will yield the future in space? Share it Fla. 32899 more data than all previous Mars missions combined. Page 2 SPACEPORT NEWS September 26, 1997 program. KSC Lost Time Frequency rate (100 people Safety. DuPont's safety philosophy (Continued from Page 1) is based on 10 simple points: working one year) As a whole, DuPont is the 1. All injuries are preventable. safest company in the world. 2. Management, from the top DuPont began keeping injury of the corporation to first-line statistics in 1912, 60 years supervisors, is responsible for before the U.S. federal preventing injuries. 3. All operating exposures requirement to keep such that could result in injuries or records. The company's safety occupational illnesses can be performance has improved 250 controlled. All sources of danger times since then. should be eliminated when DuPont's safety philosophy possible. If not, an effective is so comprehensive and so safeguard can be provided. well instilled in its employees 4. Safety is a condition of that its off-the-job injury rate employment. Each employee is lower than the industry must believe that he or she has a responsibility to work safely. average for on-the-job injuries. 5. Employees must be trained Comparisons between on-the- to work safely.ÊEffective Federal agency Lost Time Frequency rate comparison job injury rates are even more training programs are needed to startling. Whereas the all- teach, motivate and sustain industry average is in the safety knowledge. range of about three to five 6. Management must audit injuries per 200,000 exposure performance in the workplace to hours, at DuPont the rate for assess safety program success. the same time frame is less Inspections of both facilities and the programs are essential to than 0.05 injuries per 200,000 make sure a safety culture is in exposure hours. place, but also to detect and “A plant manager at remedy any problems. DuPont can quote you his 7. All deficiencies must be employees' lost time rate, and corrected promptly. Prompt that record remains with him, action overcomes the hazard not the plant,” observed Safety but also reinforces the message Assurance Director Joel that safety is a priority. Reynolds. “We'd like to change 8. Off-the-job safety is part of the overall safety effort. the culture here so everyone Safety awareness shouldn't be shares the same sense of turned on when an employee DuPont safety performance versus all industry (Lost responsibility for employee arrives at work and then off work cases per 200,000 hours) safety.” when he/she heads home. It's an KSC's current Lost Time internal process. Frequency rate of 0.43 9. Safety is good business. injuries per 200,000 exposure Injuries cost money, and their hours is well above the cost undermines industry standard, but NASA competitiveness. 10. People are the most wants it to be even better, critical element of the safety Reynolds said. program. DuPont states that 96 The cultural transformation percent of safety incidents are begins from the top down. On caused by people, not by faulty Sept. 17, senior NASA and equipment or inadequate safety contractor managers from standards. KSC participated in a one-day seminar held by DuPont, The biggest hurdle is the taking the first step toward a acceptance by every employee new outlook on safety. Space — from the top manager to the Flight Operations Contractor worker on the shop floor — United Space Alliance also has that they are responsible for begun DuPont safety training their safety as well as the of its top managers. Booster safety of their co-workers. refurbishment contractor The next step for the top USBI, which reports to managers who took the Sept. Note: Lost Time Frequency rate refers to the number of lost accidents per 100 employees Marshall Space Flight Center, 17 training will be to develop in one year, or 200,000 hours. Lost Work Cases is a similar measure. Lost Time Severity rate, another key safety metric, is the first KSC organization a plan for getting this message refers to the number of lost days per 100 employees in one year/ to fully implement the DuPont across to all employees. 200,000 hours. At KSC, it costs about $24,000 each time an injured worker goes off the job and receives workmen's compensation. September 26, 1997 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 3 Challenge for USA Florida is making a good record better With a work force of about process; linking compensation rely on Standard Practice 5,000 people, United Space to safety and more meaningful Instructions (SPIs), nine Alliance's Florida operations is feedback to the work force volumes of basic work about twice the size of the regarding safety issues. procedures. Rudolph largest DuPont plant currently One of the most concrete anticipates that the SPIs will listed on its top 10 safety changes that will come from change to reflect a greater performers roster. It will take the cultural transformation at emphasis on safety. from September through the USA-Florida is that safety will In January, USA-Florida end of the year to train about become part of the appraisal line supervisors and managers 500 managers and line process, Rudolph said. “The will carry the DuPont safety supervisors in the DuPont new appraisal form will message to the workers doing safety philosophy. include safety as a line the hands-on work. “This is But work force size isn't element.” like round one,” Rudolph said, what concerns USA Safety and Another key change will be adding that he expects to USA FLORIDA hopes that it can improve Reliability Director Jimmy making dollars available to eventually see double-digit further an already good safety record.
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