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An OSH Champion's Story: The Heart to Become an Extraordinary OSH Advocate



"𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏 “𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚” 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑶𝑺𝑯 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆. 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑂𝑆𝐻 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠. 𝐴𝑠 𝑎 𝑀𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑀𝐸 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑚. 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛, 𝑂𝑆𝐻 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑦𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑂𝑆𝐻 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 – 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚.


𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏’𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 – 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝑺𝑯 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕. 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝑰 𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒆, 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑶𝑺𝑯𝑪, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, 𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑠, 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘.

𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒. 𝑀𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑂𝑆𝐻 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟 1 𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑆𝐻𝐶 𝑅𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑉𝐼 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒. 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 – 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑂𝑆𝐻𝐶! 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 - 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆, 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝑺𝑯 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅/𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔. "


𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐑. 𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐃𝐖𝐈𝐍 𝐕. 𝐆𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐎

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