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- Ensure that fundamental safety and mission success requirements are communicated, understood, implemented, and are not compromised.
- Identify and assess hazards and build appropriate safety measures, such as failsafe features, abort capabilities, and crew escape mechanisms into programs and projects up front.
- Improve the reliability and robustness of aerospace hardware and software.
- Ensure that safety-critical functions have functional redundancy.
- Design to minimize the probability and severity of human error.
- Employ formal risk management practices to drive prudent program/project decisions.
- Design safety into the facilities and equipment used by our employees.
- Make safe performance a condition of employment at NASA.
- Set a goal of zero human injury mishaps on the job.
- Empower our people to call "time out" when they spot something unsafe.
- Ensure both on- and off-the-job safety training for all our people.
- Achieve "Star" Certification under OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) for all NASA centers.
- Periodically evaluate the safety attitudes and knowledge of both managers and employees.
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