The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment Katherine Hammack presented Army Safety Risk Management Awards at Fort Riley on Thursday.

Hammack said the safety awards were presented to many of the Garrison personnel at Fort Riley.

“Safety is important to the Army because we do not lose personnel to accidents that are preventable, so we do a lot want to lose personnel to accidents that are preventable. ” Hamack added they do a lot of safety and risk management training. “And so what we are celebrating today is zero accidents in several of the Directorates.”

Hammack said they’ve done a great job of ensuring the Army investigates “The why.” They want to understand what caused an accident and how to prevent it.

“We want to ensure we have a safe workplace for all of our employees.”

Hammack noted in this area Fort Riley is setting the standard. The post is demonstrating what can be achieved with significant across-the-board reductions in accidents.