After badging into the building on the first day, I had no idea what to expect in terms of safety. Prior to my internship here at Indium Corporation, I rarely had opportunities to learn about safety in a professional setting. My position as an Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Intern focuses deeply on safety in the workplace, and as I onboarded, I was excited (and nervous) about the actual work that would be awaiting. Within my prior experience in construction, safety wasn’t always a priority. I remembered thinking to myself, “if this is anything like that, we will have got a lot of work to do."
Safety, as I experienced in my previous jobs, was not as emphasized as it is here at Indium Corporation. In prior experiences, I found that PPE (personal protective equipment) was treated as a suggestion rather than a requirement. Many of the workplace injuries that had occurred, which I was able to observe, were preventable. Having observed the incidents I did, I cleared the slate and decided to go into this internship with no expectations and an open mind to learn and absorb as much as I could.
我的日程安排与其他实习生朝九晚五的规律有些不同。我 6 点上班，3 点左右下班。作为一个总是喜欢夜猫子的人，从早上 5 点入睡到必须在这个时间起床是最大的挑战。
安顿好新办公桌后不久，我打开一瓶 8.4 盎司的红牛，开始为第一天的工作做准备。我戴上安全眼镜，在早上 6:30 开始了我的第一次设施参观。
在我第一天的工作中，我发现安全在大楼的多个功能中都发挥着重要作用。在设施的任何地方，只要规定必须使用某套个人防护设备，即使看起来 "微不足道"，每个人都会遵守程序。从呼吸器到安全眼镜，一切都符合标准。当我路过楼层里的所有员工时，我注意到每个人的脸上都洋溢着自豪感--他们不仅因为遵守了安全要求（而且知道其他人也在这样做），而且还因为出色地完成了工作并相互协作而感到欣慰和安全。
For my primary project, I worked with my supervisor on safety training forms, making sure that we have all the information needed to prove that all Indium Corporation employees have received sufficient safety training.
确定如何收集美国所有员工的文件资料无疑是一项挑战。最终，我们决定主动沟通和组织是关键。我们联系了所有主管，收集他们为其员工存档的所有文件，然后创建了一个 excel 矩阵来记录和跟踪我们所拥有和缺少的文件。数据最终确定并输入在线培训文档系统后，我们制定了一项深入计划，让每个人都获得日常工作所需的任务认证。
Besides my individual project, I also had various opportunities to connect with other interns and experience the work life here at Indium Corporation in different aspects. For example, we as interns were given tours of all Indium Corporation facilities in Central New York. It was nice to see how safety played out in the other facilities as well and realized that it was not something solely implemented at the facility I worked at. Each location had their own strong suit: the Utica, NY facility was a very interesting example of a well-managed and optimized small space in an effective manner without sacrificing or compromising any safety measures while Rome, NY facility's quality control measures were very impressive in all production spaces.
除了文书工作和规章制度外，安全团队还积极参与所有其他部门的工作，即使这些工作与团队的工作范围没有直接关系。我很喜欢参加的一次志愿活动是我们的年度午餐会。我们帮助准备了一顿自助式午餐，完全免费，供所有员工在休息时间享用。在才华横溢的厨师的大力协助下，我们还能在当天晚些时候为上晚班的员工提供午餐。
参加午餐会让我知道，我们并不仅仅局限于自己的工作职位，我们可以通过有意义的活动或小小的善举与同事建立良好的联系。能让别人的一天变得更好，是一件非常有意义的事情。
