Minutes of Employee Safety Committee Meeting on 11/14/03

Harvey Mudd College Employee Safety Committee
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Minutes from Meeting on November 14, 2003

In Attendance:

Annie Atiyeh (Physics - annie_atiyeh@hmc.edu)
Kimberly Rogers (Human Resources - kimberly_rogers@hmc.edu)
Lillian McCollum (Chemistry - lillian_mccollum@hmc.edu)
Theresa Potter (Facilities and Maintenance - theresa_potter@hmc.edu)
Tony Pennington (EH&S Manager - tonyp@cuc.claremont.edu)


Agenda Items:

1)  SAFETY TRAINING SESSION
    It is desirable to have more faculty members attend the CPR
    training.  A minimum of ten participants is preferable.  Kimberly
    will obtain a training date and schedule from the Red Cross.  

    Ramona has informed the Committee that Dining Services currently 
    will not sponsor CPR training in Spanish.  Training in English will
    be open to all Dining Services employees through the HMC Employee
    Safety Committee.  

    Annie will speak to Bill Casey, General Manager of the HMC Dining 
    Services, concerning safety training for managers and section 
    leads. 


2)  GREEN SHEET
    Annie informed the committee that the Wednesday Green Sheet will
    no longer be published at this time.  
  

3)  DINING SERVICES AND F&M SAFETY TRAINING
    Because Ramona does not currently work on Fridays, Bill Casey, 
    will attend the Committee meetings.

    Dining Services and F&M will now maintain their own records for
    employee safety training.  Future safety training will be 
    scheduled in-house, and will be monitored in-house.  This method 
    will permit much more flexibility in determining the specific 
    safety training needs of these two departments.             


4)  SAFETY TRAINING INCENTIVES
    After some discussion, the Committee decided to adopt Tony's 
    suggestion.  Drawings will be held for the attendees of each
    training session, as was previously decided.  The winner will
    be awarded a coupon for one free meal at Platt.  Annie will 
    speak with Bill Casey concerning budgeting details.  

    Kimberly will prepare the coupons.  Also, Annie will bring, to
    the next meeting, the names of attendees at training sessions held
    earlier during this fiscal year.

    All meal coupons must be spent by graduation day in May, 2004.   


5)  OPEN DISCUSSION

    A.  Relative to an incident that occurred in Platt earlier this
        year, Tony expressed the need for a booklet on procedures 
        dealing with "how to shut down and restart gas equipment".

        Annie will send a letter to Jon Strauss, President of HMC,
        requesting information on follow-up and further developments.     

    B.  Tony mentioned that there should be a review of the "Loss-Run"
        for HMC.  These logs, of safety incidents that occurred at HMC,
        come through the insurer and are given for each fiscal year.  


6) Next meeting:  Friday, January 23, 2004 at 11:00am in the Stauffer
                  Lounge




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