Luke ESOHCAMP great success

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  • By Airman 1st Class David Owsianka
  • 56th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. --  The 56th Civil Engineer Squadron completed the Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Compliance Assessment Management Program April 29 with a resounding measure of success.

"The ESOHCAMP was a success because we improved on our air permit compliance and hazardous waste accumulation protocols from last year," said Jeff Rothrock, 56th CES environmental chief.

The ESOHCAMP program supports the war fighter and protects the environment, work force and community. The mission sustainment states that all Airmen must know how their activities affect the environment and must strive to continuously improve environmental performance.

"The volunteers did a tremendous job of assessing about 120 base shops that use hazardous materials," Mr. Rothrock said. "The majority of the discrepancies found were in the hazardous material and waste, and storm and waste water protocols."
Mr. Rothrock said his team looked at the most probable root cause for each discrepancy.
"Then we associated the root cause with one of the 17 elements of our ESOH management system," he said.

The ESOHCAMP is the "check" part of Luke's "plan, do, check, act" management system, Mr. Rothrock said.

"A good 'check' leads to an improved system," he said. "Our management system cross-functional team will review all the root causes next month for discrepancies and make recommendations to the ESOH council for improvements to the system. In doing this, we learned that awareness and training is the most important area we need to work on for future ESOHCAMPS."