2020 February Safety Committee Minutes

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MINUTES OF ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY SAFETY COMMITTEE HELD AT

DIANA TORREY HEALTH AND COUNSELING CENTER, CONFERENCE ROOM

ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2020 STARTING AT 9:00 AM.

 

Chairperson:      Patrick Gagnon, Co-Chair

 

Present:              Bill Ritchie, Co-Chair, Susan Johnson, Secretary, Stacie Olney-LaPierre, Jill Pflugheber, David Geleta and Traci Grainger

 

Apologies:          Suna Stone, Marcus Sherburne, Tim Kinch, Dan Seaman, Stacy Vassar, Marsha Sawyer, Mary Charleston, Timothy Corbitt, Ethan Townsend,

    Kasarian Dane, Jim Kozsan,  Sharmela Garcia-Martin and Nick Ormasen

  

Open comments, introductions and guests

Approval of the Minutes

New Business:

  1. We discussed the Pandemic Influenza and SLU’s Response Plan that was created back when the Avian Flu was rampant. We will have a group working on updating this to present day; Pat, Jill,

Stacie and David will be among those reviewing. AVP Gagnon discussed drill Safety and Security did this week with SLC Public Health; St. Lawrence University has an MOU with SLC Public

Health to be a POD site. They asked us to provide a truck and 2 officers to escort the truck to SLC Jail to pick up vaccines to dispense at Leithead. The simulation drill took place Wednesday, February 5th.

 

2.   Ken McGowan, NYSOFPC will be conducting fire training for 40+ CA’s in the Hannon Room.  Training will include Fire Safety and seriousness; proper reporting and schedules.

3.   Ken McGowan, NYSOFPC would like to bring a kitchen trailer up in the first weeks of the Fall semester and it will be a requirement that one person from each residence (townhouses/suites) that has a kitchen will have to attend.

4.    Pat received the following e-mail:

“Hi Pat,

I have a safety issue which has been brought to my attention today 1-22-20.At the corner next to Richardson Hall on Ramoda Drive.An employee had a near accident due to someone crossing without stopping at the corner to Richardson.

The question is can there be a stop sign added at that location as like what there is at Vilas Parking lot on Ramoda Drive?3 way stop??” Committee discussed and it was decided first step will be crosswalk signs installed at this location.

 

Old Business:

 

 

Tabled:

  1. Review Integrated Pest Management Plan –Needs to be reviewed/revised. Last updated in 2006. This is located on the EH&S Website. The suggestion of a sub-committee was discussed and potential members will be

contacted. Suna will be taking the lead and recruiting members from Biology, ENVS, Facilities Building Manager and Marcus Sherburne. Hoping to have updated draft ready for Committee review next semester. Discussed

EAB plan (Emerald Ash Borer). There are 6,000 in the wooded areas and 213 on campus. The plan is to remove as the trees die out. Suna to bring revisions to next meeting November 1st.  November 1st meeting was

cancelled due to storm; Suna not in attendance at December 6, 2019 meeting; committee hopes to discuss and review at next meeting February 7, 2020. Suna not in attendance at February 7, 2020 meeting.

 

  1. Shelter in Place Drill – Drill has been postponed; AVP Gagnon to speak with Faculty Council on October 15th.  There is a need to exercise notifier; people need to see it and it gives people that miss the message a chance to

register their cell numbers in order to receive messages. Heading towards utilizing RAVE system, which turns every subscriber’s cell phone into an emergency blue light phone; Associated Colleges participate in the RAVE

program enabling them to receive and send their messages to all four colleges. Waiting to be put on Faculty Council agenda.  Faculty Council recently reached out and Pat will request to get on their agenda in the Fall.

Drills like this bring out the vulnerabilities in people. After the first drill AVP Gagnon received 25+ concerns with areas on campus and he addressed each one of them going to their space to meet and work out scenarios with them.

 

It is requested that any new business to be added to the Agenda be forwarded to Susan Johnson no later than February 28, 2020.

 

There being no further business, the meeting closed.

 

Meeting Adjourned at 9:30 a.m.

 

Future Meetings:

 

Meetings will be held in the Torrey Conference Room, located in the Diana Torrey Health and Counseling Center from 9am-10am. Dates of future meetings will continue to be the first Friday of the month: 3/6/20, 4/3/20 and 5/1/20.