Our website has no maze - safetycenter.navy.mil - Brief Article

Approach, Oct, 2002

It's easy to find your way around our web site. In July, people made more than 170,000 visits to safetycenter.navy.mil, finding thousands of safety resources. We have checklists for traffic safety, safety inspections and hundreds of other specific and general topics. Our Photo of the Week has become the most popular page, as people absorb some of our webmaster's blend of humor and hair-raising images. We offer lots of kinds of statistics, with updates on trends and rates for all communities. Our Afloat, Ashore and Aviation directorates have many of their own pages aimed at their specific areas of interest and responsibility. You can also find dozens of ready-made presentations that you can tailor for local use, along with current instructions and a host of ORM resources.

The Media Department section contains all of our magazines. Navigating over to the Approach pages, you'll find the current issue and issues back through 1999 in both PDF and HTML formats. The Approach Vault features hundreds of unpublished stories grouped by aircraft and operations. We offer the complete selection of Ward Carroll's celebrated "Brownshoes in Action" comics. A new feature entitled "They Used To Do What?" presents an informal history of the risks and hazards of naval aviation. We have a photo gallery, an index of every article published from 1956 to present, and a list of aviation terms, acronyms, initialisms and jargon. Another new feature, the Squadron in the Spotlight, presents news and accomplishments with a safety slant.

So click on over and browse. You won't find any cheese--just lots of ways to keep people from getting trapped by hazards.