SAFETY SPOTLIGHT

As one of the prominent ground safety investigators for the Naval Safety Command, Capt. Colin Bishop provides professional assistance and expert advice to safety investigation boards for Class A training mishaps across the globe.

His responsibilities include, but are not limited to, ensuring the effective and efficient conduct of the mishap investigations and ensuring the board follows recognized investigative techniques to arrive at sound conclusions and immediately actionable recommendations to the force. He often provides keen insight and guidance to multiple senior officers during the investigation process and liaises with vested agencies such as Systems Command and Range Training and Management to identify mishap causal factors. From these various safety mishaps, Bishop collects and compiles pertinent information and develops lessons-learned products for dissemination throughout the service to help decrease the chances of similar future mishaps.

Because of his experience, he is one of the few individuals entrusted with teaching the Ground Mishap Investigator Course to unit ground safety officers and managers. Between his investigative and teaching duties, Bishop found the time to spearhead the task of developing the Fall 2022 edition of Ground Warrior Magazine, which provides relevant and timely information on a variety of Marine Corps Ground and Naval Expeditionary Warfare topics.