BOS 3001 Unit 1 Journal Reflection

Journal Reflection BOS 3001 Unit 1

BOS 3001, Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health

Columbia Southern University

Journal Reflection BOS 3001 Unit 1

For this journal entry, I was asked to consider the seven competencies by the ASSE and eight elements of the TSM. Then asked to recall an experience that led to an incident when one of these were not followed. Lastly, I was asked if I agreed with the competency not being followed? Why, or why not?

I will give a little of my background to add context to my train of thought for this journal entry. I serve in the US Air Force, currently at Maxwell AFB. My primary job is Public Health, so I have some background working with Occupational Safety. One part of my job is to conduct Occupational Safety Inspections and make sure supervisors and employees are following the guidelines and regulations that required for their respective jobs.

When I consider the seven competencies by ASSE and the eight elements of the TSM my mind goes to two things, firstly comprehensive ongoing training and secondly leading by example. One experience I recalled from a previous assignment was during an inspection I was conducting on a flight line maintenance shop. The supervisors in the work center were pencil whipping their training documentation in order to save time. These actions by the supervisors were wrong on several levels and I still to this day disagree with both not correctly conducting training, which documentation is a part of as well as not leading by example. By pencil whipping the training records they could not accurately train personnel how to do their jobs or prove it was actually being done, secondly by doing that he was basically telling his employees that conducting business that way is okay, and lastly what the supervisors were doing was illegal since it was falsifying documentation on an official Air Force document.