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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 2856 — DD Form 2856, DoD Semiannual Program Review/Facility Inspection Checklist, May 2012 — exists to DoD Semi-Annual Program Review/Facility Inspection Checklist, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 4 pages, approximately 140 entries.
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What the form asks for
- Organization.
- Date of review (4 digit year, 3 letter month, 2 digit day).
- 1.a. Program management responsbility. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (1) The institutional official. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (2) The attending veterinarian. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (3) The institutional animal care and use committee. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (4) Collaborations. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- b. Personnel management. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (1) Training and education. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (a) Veterinary and other professional staff. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (b) Animal care personnel. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (c) The research team. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (d) The IACUC. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (2) Occupational health and safety of personnel. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (a) Control and prevention strategies. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (b) Hazard identification and risk assessment. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (c) Facilities, equipment and monitoring. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (d) Personnel training. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (e) Personal hygiene. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (f) Animal experimentation involving hazards. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (g) Personal protection. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (h) Medical evaluation and preventive medicine for personnel. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (3) Personnel security. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
- (4) Investigating and reporting animal welfare concerns. X first box if acceptable, 2nd if minor deficiency, 3rd if significant deficiency, 4th if not applicable.
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Where a procedure cites both a service form and a DD form, the two are unconnected. Service numbering answers to a service proponent, DD numbering to not stated or another Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Matching numbers mean nothing whatever.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2856?
- DD Form 2856, DoD Semiannual Program Review/Facility Inspection Checklist, May 2012
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?