Environmental Health & Safety Minutes:
The committee moved to accept the February minutes. In regards to the minutes the committee should follow up on the items that were discussed at the previous meeting.
1) Old Business
A) Bureau of Labor Standards i) 12 items that are policy related to complete such as training and LOTO ii) Eye wash stations for custodial areas; a) Tim will meet with Judy to go over locations b) Carl questioned if they can get away without using bleach, Judy doesn’t recommend it c) Barry – Plan on identifying closets as mixing locations d) Judy – Priced non bleach solution but still have to have it near an eye wash station and may cost more than using bleach e) Contact Gene Curtis, Head of support services at the hospital to see what they use as their cleaning solutions f) Need to meet requirements for eye washes g) Judy will do research on cleaning products
iii) Need training records a) Denning Kingman from Summit Environmental will be providing training on Asbestos Awareness b) Review training policies; update on website and bring back to committee to review (Carl only has pdf format and needs them into word format) c) Work study has to take written test for MSDS, all employees should have to take the test iv) Medical Documentation a) Linda is responsible for keeping medical documentation in the health center (CPR/First Aid/AED/Audiograms/yearly respiratory/hepatitis shots) v) Hazard Assessments a) Redo assessments for respirators i) Shops ii) Maintenance
B) Active Shooter Awareness i) Sherriff department (Forrest Dudley) is willing to participate; PIPD has no interest. Tom will attempt to speak to PIPD in participating.
C) List of Faculty, staff and adjuncts i) Carl received list from Dottie
D) Security Training i) Every last Friday of the month ii) Securitas training every Saturday @ 3 p.m.
E) Electrical policy – Barry doesn’t believe that this policy should be done yet, more needs to be discussed. Only give access to people for academic use and not facility use. We will discuss the policy again at a later time.
F) First Aid policy – Linda, school nurse should have this policy under her budget.
G) Forklift Training – No requests for the training, Judy may be interested in the training.
H) 15 passenger van training - 3 people passed the training. (Bill Egeler, Bill Casavant and Tom Richard)
I) MMA – Work Evaluations i) Tom – Grant completed but needs Larry’s signature. Funding is available and will get 2/3 of the cost back
J Incidents i) Students reported playing on the roof and students were reprimanded ii) Muscle strain injury shoveling heavy snow and loss some work time
K Safety Training i) VDT training – Need to do training for employees that require 4 or more hours in from of a computer, this training needs to be changed to ergonomics.
L New Business i) Judy – Tried new steam cleaing machine, it’s a good way to get away from chemicals. It’s used to clean the walls, shower, toilet, floors, sinks, floor drain. It comes with extension and attachments. The cost is $2,000 but our price is $1,400. This would replace floor cleaners, disinfectant for bathroom. The custodians would need to be trained with this. We will follow up on this at a later time. ii) Bomb threat – Bomb threats at other community college. Protocol for a bomb threat is press record, fill out bomb threat repor,t call 911 and security and evacuate the building.
Next meeting is scheduled for April 24, 2013 @ 1:00 p.m.
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