Minutes of Employee Safety Committee Meeting on 2/1/02

Harvey Mudd College Employee Safety Committee
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Minutes from Meeting on February 1, 2002

In Attendance:

Annie Atiyeh (Physics - annie_atiyeh@hmc.edu)
Lillian McCollum (Chemistry - lillian_mccollum@hmc.edu)
Elaine Guerra (Biology - elaine_guerra@hmc.edu)
Mike Wheeler (Machine Shop - mike_wheeler@hmc.edu)
Chauncey Jones (EH&S Specialist - chanuceyj@cuc.claremont.edu)


Agenda Items:

  
1)  NEEDLE DISPOSAL
    Annie mentioned that information on needle disposal would be
    published in the weekly "Green Sheet" as a part of the HMC
    Employee Safety Committee community relations effort.  The 
    information would deal with needle disposal outlets for private
    citizen use (e.g. diabetics, etc.)


2)  AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT REPORT
    The campus-wide air quality testing and evaluation was completed 
    last November.  The report of evaluation, conducted by Healthy
    Buildings International is now available. 

    Lillian will e-mail Jan Brown and request that Jan forward to her
    several copies of the evaluation.  These copies will be circulated
    among the Committee members.  Aaron Neilson, General Manager of HMC
    Dining Services, said that it would be important for this information
    to be in the form of a "lay person summary" of the full report.  
    Lillian will also request that Jan Brown forward a copy to Tony 
    Pennington, CUC EH&S Manager, and to Theresa Potter, HMC Director 
    of Facilities & Maintenance.  


3)  ACETONE STORAGE
    Chemistry Department plans to store two 55-gallon drums of acetone in
    the Libra loading dock cage.  Since space is minimal, Lillian will
    contact Tony about specific regulatory storage requirements. Theresa
    and Chanucey should be contacted concerning lifting and moving
    the drums. 


4)  OPEN DISCUSSION

    A.  Chauncey mentioned that most colleges have sold their large vehicle
        vans that were used to transport 12 or more passengers.  Training 
        for operation of these vans can no longer be obtained through 
        EH&S, but must be obtained through the DMV.

    B.  Kimberly Rogers in Human Resources will seek information from
        employees about ergonomics on an "as needed" basis.

    C.  Serious attention was paid to the matter of numbering the various
        buildings on the HMC campus.  This would aid emergency response 
        personnel in quickly locating the appropriate building.  

        It was also noted that all of the basement floors of the HMC
        academic buildings (Jacobs, Keck, Parsons, Beckman, Olin) should 
        be specifically labeled and numbered to promote ease of location.

        

5) Next meeting will be:  Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 11:00am in the
   Stauffer Lounge, Keck Building.




A computer record and a hard copy of this report will be kept in 
Lillian McCollum's office (2310 Jacobs).
  
If you would like a hard copy, send your request to Annie Atiyeh 
at annie_atiyeh@hmc.edu