WTF is OSHA?!

So one of the things you don’t have to deal with, in the military, is OSHA. We have NAVOSH (close to the same) but it’s got decided differences. One of which is that I have never had to sit for 10 hours worth of training on things I’ll never work with.

Now I can hear your brain working, thinking “the military had their own standards?!? Say it ain’t so. “. Yes we do, but they cover most of the same stuff.

Know what’s even better about Navy safety vs civilian training? You get a benefit of the doubt in he military. “Electrician by rate? You don’t need to sit through electrical safety training.”

Civilian side? My ass sat through 2 hours of death by PowerPoint on electrical safety and fundamentals.

The other wonderful part (and I use wonderful with the same tone as when you tell your parents you spilled a glass of milk) is that I get to take courses and tests on things that I will never do. I’m never going to direct a crane operator, so why the actual hell do I need to learn this? Is this really going to make me a better craftsman?!