New program refocuses safety protocol

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  • By Airman 1st Class Rhett Isbell
  • 19th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Little Rock Air Force Base is moving to a risk-based assessment and analysis approach to safety and protection issues known as Enterprise Protection Risk Management.

In accordance with Department of Defense regulations 5200.43 and 3020.40, this program integrates mission assurance and protection disciplines for commanders to efficiently calculate threats and costs to those under their care in a more streamlined manner.

“The program is designed to provide the commanders with an ‘all threats, all hazards’ picture of what’s going on in his or her installation,” said Scott Wobbe, Air Mobility Command director of information protection. “When there’s a vulnerability on an installation and we come up with a course of action, we’re able to more accurately assess it.”

Assisting wing assessments and commander’s abilities to quantify possible protection allows Airmen to help out in their own way.

“The biggest thing for Airmen is to open their aperture and think about how their job affects those around them and the priorities of their commander,” Wobbe said. “As we transition from compliance to risk management, we will look at how our decisions affect the mission as a whole.”