Transparency: Seeing Through to Our Expanded Human Capacity

This report describes the results of the 2007 Department of Defense (DoD) biennial safety perception survey for the DoD Reserve Component population group. Since 2003, the Secretary of defense has issued several memoranda directing senior leaders to reduce preventable accidents. On May 20 2007, the Secretary of defense established the goal of "zero preventable accidents." This survey is one of many DoD Inspector General (IG) efforts to assist the DoD community at-large to prevent accidents and improve the Department's safety program. The offices of the Secretary of Defense, Combatant Commanders, and Services should review these results to measure safety climate and cultural changes, identify trends, and target safety prevention opportunities.