The Tri-Agency Working Group — made up of NASA (specifically the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance), the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board — exists so that each organization can learn how the others handle mishaps within their organizations and how they could all work together on an investigation, should the need arise. At a meeting this September, the group expanded to become the Quad-Agency Working Group with the official addition of the U.S. Air Force.

Fall Protection Program administrators from each center joined NASA’s Construction Safety Working Group at Kennedy Space Center June 2-3 to provide valuable input on one of the most dangerous work activities in construction. The group members helped focus this second annual face-to-face on fall protection, including discussions on requirements, rescue plans and training. 

NASA’s Mishap Program Working Group focused on Human Factors Analysis and Classification System training during its annual meeting, held Aug. 5-8 at Johnson Space Center.

The newly established NASA Construction Safety Working Group held its first annual meeting at Kennedy Space Center July 8-9.

Fire protection engineers in NASA’s Fire Protection Working Group met at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, June 3-6 for its annual face-to-face meeting.

The Lifting Device and Equipment Committee (LDE) met in February to work on streamlining the next revision of the NASA Standard for LDE.

NASA’s Electrical Safety Working Group, chaired by Cheevon "Mi-Mi" Lau, held its annual face-to-face meeting at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 11-13, 2014. Representatives from around the agency discussed electrical issues and shared advice with each other.

The Metrology and Calibration Working Group held its annual meeting Aug. 13 through 15 at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. The annual meeting is an opportunity for members of the metrology and calibration community to meet face-to-face.

NASA’s Mishap Program Working Group met at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for its annual face-to-face operational meeting in August. The theme of this year’s meeting was, “How do we get better?”

Software Assurance (SA) practitioners from around the agency came together Aug. 27-29 at the Ohio Aerospace Institute, just outside Glenn Research Center, for the annual SA Working Group face-to-face meeting.