Current Life Learning. Fleet Safety

My most pressing occupation at the moment is to read, understand, digest and implement the Fleet Safety Compliance Manual so that I can be qualified to be the Fleet Safety Officer for both of our companies.  As of this moment, I am on page 16 of the personnel section.  I have been working on reading, understanding and digesting this information for 4 days so far. Yes, that is right, 4 days 16 pages, that averages to 4 pages a day and I am spending HOURS a day reading this information.

 Try just this bit on for size:


§ 40.13 How do DOT drug and alcohol tests relate to non-DOT tests?
 (a) DOT tests must be completely separate from non-DOT tests in all respects.

(b) DOT tests must take priority and must be conducted and completed before a non-DOT test is begun. For example, you must discard any excess urine left over from a DOT test and collect a separate void for the subsequent non-DOT test.

(c) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section, you must not perform any tests on DOT urine or breath specimens other than those specifically authorized by this part or DOT agency regulations. For example, you may not test a DOT urine specimen for additional drugs, and a laboratory is prohibited from making a DOT urine specimen available for a DNA test or other types of specimen identity testing.

(d) The single exception to paragraph (c) of this section is when a DOT drug test collection is conducted as part of a physical examination required by DOT agency regulations. It is permissible to conduct required medical tests related to this physical examination (e.g., for glucose) on any urine remaining in the collection container after the drug test urine specimens have been sealed into the specimen bottles.

(e) No one is permitted to change or disregard the results of DOT tests based on the results of non-DOT tests. For example, as an employer you must not disregard a verified positive DOT drug test result because the employee presents a negative test result from a blood or urine specimen collected by the employee's physician or a DNA test result purporting to question the identity of the DOT specimen.

(f) As an employer, you must not use the CCF or the ATF in your non-DOT drug and alcohol testing programs. This prohibition includes the use of the DOT forms with references to DOT programs and agencies crossed out. You also must always use the CCF and ATF for all your DOT-mandated drug and alcohol tests.

Got it?  Now explain it.   

At home, or at work while I am walking on the tread mill I am also reading a book by Laura Vanderkam called What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast. This is a book on time management and the way we look at our world.  My goal is to finish that book this weekend.  Yes, I said that last weekend and then didn't do it.  But I am planning on reading Sunday whether my house gets cleaned up, or laundry gets done or not.  This is important and the things it will bring in to my life is also important so it will get done. 

New day, new pages,  And the end of section one Personnel... now on to operations..

The Olympics are HERE!!!!!

Every two years, I go on vacation with out ever leaving my house.  I sit down I front of my television and watch as much of the Olympic games as possible.  I am sitting here right now watching the opening ceremonies.  I displeased several people today but I gave them what I thought was plenty of warning that TODAY AS THE DAY.....

I am praying every moment of every day for the safety and well being of every single one of the athletes who will be participating. I am praying for the safety and well being of every coach and trainer and every other person who helps in any way this event.

I so very much enjoy watching the culmination of a lifetime of effort for many of these athletes,

  Not to mention the sense of humor that they display!!!



The dedication against adversity of you know.... no winter



The balance and flexibility

 

The ability to fly!!!



And as much as the whole thing for me is just about the skill and participation.... I wouldn't be an American if This......

Did not bring tears to my eyes every time!!! 

 

GO TEAM USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

My Life Verse

"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."


Every Day is a Choice for us.  How will we, then, choose to use it.  We read this, sometimes in a negative way, the word "against".  But what he is saying is that each day a choice is put before us.  God is ROOTING for us to choose the best of the choices.