EHS, do you have a copy? EHS, do you have a copy?? Is anyone here in EHS??? Can someone in Grant Drive please wake up SD?!?
Got to say this irritates me. I think I know where this is coming from.
I envision that whoever wrote this has got to be a 0 to 6 month employee. Only someone that naive would believe that the responsibility of EHS is to tend to safety of the employee, or to protect the environment. Listen up, Bucko, the role of EHS is to protect the site management when they make decisions that either result in a safety risk, a safety situation (hint: how many fires have we had this year??), pollute the environment, etc.
Someone gets hurt following direction from those above? EHS will be there to assign blame to the worker and take the heat off the bosses.
Fumes from the process permeate the hallways and office space? EHS will find a way to cover...the smell isn't "that" bad, ya know.
Gets old. Fast. No wonder they burn out.
It's easy to sit back and say "if I was in that role, I'd do a better job by...." Well, how about this. Try saying that when you've got one kid in college and two more in the wings; when you've got 260 payments left on your home mortgage. When the boss says to do something, with the clear implication that if you don't you'll be walking the unemployment line, you do it. It's that sort of threat that pollutes that entire site.
Look around. Notice how everyone with more than a half year in has that look of total despair and deflation? That's why. I've seen that look before on magazine covers from the '40s.
Germantown? Shoot. I plan to call it Germancamp.