The Pakistan Navy’s annual safety review for the year 2012 was held at Bahria Auditorium under the chair of Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Mohammad Asif Sandila, says a press release issued on Thursday.
The safety review is held every year with the aim to monitor the safety standards at various Pakistan Navy units and to create safety awareness and safety culture. Through detailed analysis of past incidents, pertinent lessons are drawn based on which active measures are initiated to avoid recurrence.
Addressing the ceremony, Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Mohammad Asif Sandila, expressed his satisfaction over the positive change of enhanced safety culture within Pakistan Navy. The naval chief said that safety and operational preparedness complement each other in the optimum execution of naval operations and the best solution for being safe was to be conscious of hazards during all evolutions. “We cannot afford to put to harm precious lives and costly equipment by ignoring safety rules,” he added. The naval chief was assertive of the fact that adopting safety as a habit a culture, or more aptly, a way of life was of utmost importance. “We should lead by examples so that our future generations take safety as a by-product of good performance,” the naval chief commented. He urged all those responsible for the training to give due focus to this aspect with an aim to produce a well trained and safety conscious personnel for the field.
He reiterated that they were a developing country and the nation spent significant amount of its resources to support the armed forces. Regardless of the resource management at national level, resource constraint would continue to be faced and they must remain mindful of this factor and avoid wastage/loss in their daily working. He re-emphasised that resources would always be limited; they must make up for these limitations with better training and enhanced safety consciousness. On the other hand, it was equally important to understand that safety concerns should not make them timid. They should be bold, innovative, pragmatic and yet safe in conduct of naval operations, he said, adding their goal should be a safe and efficient navy.
Earlier, Commander Pakistan Fleet, Rear Admiral Khan Hasham Bin Saddique, received the Chief Guest on his arrival at Bahria Auditorium. In the end, the Chief Guest gave away the safety trophies and congratulated all the safety winners.
