Case Study: Fort Sill improves UXO training and hazard awareness with SafetySkills

Fort Sill - Customer Case Study

Fort Sill, a U.S. Army post in Oklahoma, needed a better way to train a wide range of personnel on munitions and explosives of concern (MEC). Because the post’s ranges contain decades of unexploded ordnance from many countries and eras, the challenge was creating a single training resource that could help both experts and layperson personnel identify hazards, understand risks, and follow proper safety procedures. SafetySkills was brought in to develop an interactive online training course for this need.

SafetySkills worked with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers experts to build a course covering UXO identification, marking and isolation protocols, hazard assessment, and notification procedures, supported by reference materials spanning 100 years of ordnance history. The training used plain-language explanations, relevant history, and clear imagery to improve comprehension across skill levels. While the case study does not provide specific metrics, SafetySkills delivered a customized solution that helped standardize MEC awareness training for military, civilian, and contract personnel working around Fort Sill’s impact ranges.