Thank You Texans

[powerboatr]

Thanks to the Hazelwood act i should be starting a MS program at A&M this dec/jan

the VA fianlly figured out i cant climb on planes anymore
and the HMFIC chair at the shelby center went away (funding)

so it looks like i am going to be a full time student in Technology Management

 

[BamaSixGun]

So this means you will be "Old School"

You're OLD and going back to SCHOOL

Good luck and study hard

 

[Crumm]

Technology Management

Just what is Technology Management?

Study hard old man

 

[powerboatr]

Just what is Technology Management?

Study hard old man

human factors/risk management
ergonomics
OSHA/industrial hygiene
workplace safety/hazard control
and a few other regulatory classes to help ensure we have a safe workplace
same stuff i did in the NAVY, but now i get a peice of paper and a new school ring if i complete the program



you know em as the "safety nazis" at work

 

[BamaSixGun]

human factors/risk management
ergonomics
OSHA/industrial hygiene
workplace safety/hazard control
and a few other regulatory classes to help ensure we have a safe workplace
same stuff i did in the NAVY, but now i get a peice of paper and a new school ring if i complete the program



you know em as the "safety nazis" at work

My SIL's husband is an Industrial Hygenist, is what you are going to be doing about the same thing?

They are the family that lives in Jacksonville, FL BTW.

 

[Dogman]

I'm looking at going to school to be a OSHA trainer for workplace safety/hazard control. I already have a hazmat traning.

 

[powerboatr]

bama
yep industrial hygienist
or human factors/risk assesment/safety,
POST MASTER

i havent really got that far, it will be about 2 years of beating the books
and sucking up some grants, by then maybe the economy will be looking better and the local jobs here will spring back into life,
really want to buy into or out the local ford dealer, time is getting about right for that, but folks aint buying new cars .

 

[95_stroker]

Why am I having visions of Rodney Dangerfield in "Back to School"?

 

[powerboatr]

Why am I having visions of Rodney Dangerfield in "Back to School"?

are you saying I am fat


or just a funny guy


to be honest i am sort of charged up and ready to get back to class, i actually miss college
put off the Ms program for a while because of WORK and travelling, so now is the perrrrrfect time i think. maybe,
who knows there might be an intern needing some help

 

[BJS]

Safety & compliance is an enjoyable job. That's what I'm doing now except I focus more on the EPA compliance since as a state gov't agency we aren't an Employer as defined by OSHA so all of that goes out the window, still have to know it since it is BMP.