complacency in the workspace
1. Complacency
2. Paying Attention
3. Not being on the phone while on a tank
There are many things in the workplace that can be repetitive and that can cause you to be complacent. Being complacent can cause you to lack attention to detail in the simplest areas. Now being complacent and not paying attention are both reasons why you should not be on the phone, why you are on a tank, because that can lead to major consequences, if anything were to go wrong, but you would not have been able to notice the problem, if one were to occur, due to your complacency and not paying attention at the exact moment the problem were to arise. Everyone knows the famous quote “complacency kills” and in my case, it really could have happened. Last Friday at the tank ramp, we were doing services on the tanks, in order to make sure the pack, or engine, to the tank works properly. One of the last things we had to do with that tank was to start it up and make sure nothing was messed up with it. Obviously there had to be somebody in the driver’s hole in order to start it up, so I jumped in there and waited until I was told to fire it up. And due to my moment of complacency, I decided to get on my phone, which was not the best given decision at that time. After about five minutes or so, I was told to fire it up and as it was in the process of starting, I continued to play on my phone, once again poor decision making. Then all of a sudden I hear someone in the background yelling, but I couldn’t make out what they were saying, then I hear it again much louder someone saying to kill the tank and at that moment I panicked a little bit. The reason the tank had to be shut down was because once I started it up, there was a big fuel
2. Paying Attention
3. Not being on the phone while on a tank
There are many things in the workplace that can be repetitive and that can cause you to be complacent. Being complacent can cause you to lack attention to detail in the simplest areas. Now being complacent and not paying attention are both reasons why you should not be on the phone, why you are on a tank, because that can lead to major consequences, if anything were to go wrong, but you would not have been able to notice the problem, if one were to occur, due to your complacency and not paying attention at the exact moment the problem were to arise. Everyone knows the famous quote “complacency kills” and in my case, it really could have happened. Last Friday at the tank ramp, we were doing services on the tanks, in order to make sure the pack, or engine, to the tank works properly. One of the last things we had to do with that tank was to start it up and make sure nothing was messed up with it. Obviously there had to be somebody in the driver’s hole in order to start it up, so I jumped in there and waited until I was told to fire it up. And due to my moment of complacency, I decided to get on my phone, which was not the best given decision at that time. After about five minutes or so, I was told to fire it up and as it was in the process of starting, I continued to play on my phone, once again poor decision making. Then all of a sudden I hear someone in the background yelling, but I couldn’t make out what they were saying, then I hear it again much louder someone saying to kill the tank and at that moment I panicked a little bit. The reason the tank had to be shut down was because once I started it up, there was a big fuel