Safety Awareness Dispatch
SA 26-02 Pre-Mishap Plans
The Mishap Investigation Course (USN) and Ground Mishap Investigation Course (USMC) instructs Navy and Marine Corps ground safety officers how to conduct a mishap investigation. If you’re assigned the billet of unit safety officer and have not heard of or taken this course, you should look it up (hint, hint… it’s a billet requirement). One of the many useful topics discussed in the course is the development of a pre-mishap plan (PMP). It’s an unfortunate truth whenever our instructors get to this period of instruction and ask, “Who doesn’t know what a pre-mishap plan is?” An alarming number of students raise their hands. Even more hands go up when asked “Who is unsure if their unit has a pre-mishap plan?” We’d like to increase the knowledge of this useful tool, so if you’re one of the people who would have raised your hand to either question, this dispatch is for you.
| Published: | June 2, 2026 |
The Safety Awareness team creates concise, readable (and sometimes funny) safety lessons to help Sailors, Marines and civilian employees (and their families) avoid repeating a mishap. Our goal is to make people think! We do our best to tell a story that people will remember – that they’ll recall when going through their normal day – that empowers them to identify hazards, accept “ownership” and responsibility for those hazards (in their community, command, and home), and take action.
