Who's SHE?
Introduction: A Confession Before We Begin I have a confession to make before this article begins. For longer than I care to admit, I was performing only one letter of my profession. I called myself an HSE officer with full chest, certificate framed somewhere, signature confident on every inspection sheet. The confidence was real. The competence, it turned out, had a perimeter. If you had stopped me mid-shift and asked what NESREA stood for without warning, I would have stammered, and if you had pulled out the Environmental Impact Assessment Act and asked which sections governed the operations I was being paid to oversee, I would have asked for a minute, then quietly gone to Google. ...