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ORI over, center prepares for LCAP

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  • By Daniel E. McCabe
  • 76th Maintenance Wing
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. --  Sometime in the near future, a 75-person team from HQ Air Force Materiel Command will visit Tinker to perform a Logistics Compliance Assess-ment Program, checking the installation's compliance with maintenance, logistics and supply chain management policy.

The LCAP supersedes the previously separate Logistics Standardization and Evaluation Team program. The new process standardizes logistics evaluation across the Air Force.

The biggest change from LSET is the notification process. Instead of getting six months notice for an LSET, under LCAP active duty units will receive no more than 45 days notification. Another change is moving from "major" and "minor" findings to "critical" and "non-critical" findings, and the number of inspectors has increased from 45 to 75.

The AFMC LCAP team will visit all four wings of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. This is a graded assessment, using a five-tier rating scale (outstanding, excellent, satisfactory, marginal and unsatisfactory).

Tinker's last inspection was in January 2008. The OC-ALC attained an overall "satisfactory" rating.

The inspection will last 10 working days and the focus will be on checklist compliance, quality verification inspections and personnel evaluations.

Assessments will be conducted on all shifts and weekends where maintenance is working. Assessments are rated as "pass" or "fail," including over-the-shoulder evaluations of unit quality assurance inspectors performing personnel evaluations and quality verification inspections. What can you do to help attain an "outstanding" rating?

Perform a thorough self-inspection of your shop using applicable AFMC compliance checklists. The compliance checklists can be found on the AFMC homepage, under the IG organization. Know your job responsibilities and what AMFC checklists apply to you. Print the checklists out that apply, answer them and put them in a book. The LCAP is an open book test, so do the test before they arrive.

For any items that are not compliant, develop an action plan and document what you are doing to correct the problem.

Wear your personnel protective equipment required in your specific workcenter, and ensure you follow safe work practices at all times. The LCAP evaluators are looking for obvious safety violations.

Housekeeping is also very important, and is the first thing that an evaluator sees when they walk in to a workcenter. Are the Foreign Object Damage containers empty? Are the FOD containers in the vehicles empty? Is there FOD on the floor or workbench?

If your Work Control Document has a task that is "In Accordance With," have the technical data out and open to the specific page and task you are working on. If the WCD has a task that references a technical order, have the technical order open or close by. The LCAP inspector will be looking for technical data usage.

Look at documentation in your work center. Is the vehicle inspection documented? How about the daily inspection on your equipment? If you have stands or use aerospace ground equipment are they chocked and locked? If there is a fluid leak on the floor, clean it up immediately and properly dispose of your hazardous waste.

Do not leave vehicles unattended and running anywhere. Shut them off and remove the keys. Do not leave any tools unattended, put them back in the individual tool kit or consolidated tool kit until you need to use them. If you are receiving a personnel evaluation, ensure you have the proper tools and technical data for the task. You should do a pre-task safety briefing to ensure you know the risks of the task and follow technical data line by line.

How do you deal with an LCAP evaluator? First, be enthusiastic, if an LCAP evaluator enters your area, approach him/her and greet them. Ensure your supervisor knows there is an LCAP evaluator in the workcenter. Answer their questions promptly and respectfully. If you do not know the answer to the question, don't make something up, tell them you will find out and get back with the evaluator immediately. After they leave report to your supervisor what was discussed, and if they found anything wrong.

You can help Tinker attain the goal of "Outstanding," and prove to AFMC that our maintenance, logistics and supply chain management practices are the best they have ever seen