2020 November Safety Committee Minutes

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MINUTES OF ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY SAFETY COMMITTEE HELD VIA ZOOM

ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2020 STARTING AT 8:00 A.M.

 

Chairperson:      Nick Ormasen, Co-Chair

 

Present:              Patrick Gagnon, Co-Chair, Susan Johnson, Secretary, Mary Charleston, Jill Pflugheber, David Geleta, Ethan Townsend, Kasarian Dane, Jim Kozsan, Bill Ritchie,

    Marsha Sawyer and Suna Stone

 

Apologies:          Stacie Olney-LaPierre, Marcus Sherburne, Sharmela Garcia-Martin, Tim Kinch, Dan Seaman, Stacy Vassar, Traci Grainger and Timothy Corbitt

  

Open comments, introductions and guests

Approval of the Minutes

New Business:

  1. Realignment of the Bookstore loading dock is underway; this was done to make it safer for large delivery trucks to access the loading dock, removing the troubling angles and adding a railing around the loading dock. They will be top coating the parking lot soon. Facilities Operations and Environmental Health and Safety are working on the Bookstore loading project as a joint venture to improve the overall safety of this area and operation.
  2. Ken McGowan, NYSOFPC will be conducting fire inspections of academic buildings starting Monday, October 5th; this will take approximately 2-3 weeks at which time they will move on to residence halls. They will be entering rooms and will have masks and gloves on. First round Academic Building inspections have been completed. First round Residence Hall inspections are on-going, resuming the week of November 9th.  Jim Kozsan said Facilities Operations is currently working on correcting violations which fall within their area.

 

Old Business:

 

 

Tabled:

  1. Review Integrated Pest Management Plan –Needs to be reviewed/revised. Last updated in 2006. Marcus advocates streamlining the current document, as there is a lot of information in there that needs to be replaced; much editing to do and at this time, the plan refers mostly to grounds and needs to incorporate the entire campus. He hopes that he and Suna can have something for February/March 2021 meeting. In preparing for ash borer it takes 21 years for total destruction; Marcus will be planning on a 12 year plan and replace instead of treating as the treating process has a 95% failure rate just delaying destruction that will happen anyway. It is cheaper to replace the trees than treat them. Suna updated the committee stating that St. Lawrence will be adopting the Colgate Plan and modifying it to St. Lawrence’s practices. They will be interviewing Facilities and Dining Managers for input and hope to have an update for our next meeting on December 4th.

 

 

  1. Pet Policy needs to be rebuilt and a committee has been formed: Sharmela Garcia-Martin, Stacie Olney-LaPierre and Pat Gagnon. Debra Mousaw from Human Resources will be joining the committee. Initial Meeting has been scheduled for November 18th.

 

It is requested that any new business to be added to the Agenda be forwarded to Susan Johnson no later than November 23rd, 2020.

 

There being no further business, the meeting closed.

 

Meeting Adjourned at 8:29 a.m.

 

Future Meetings:

 

Meetings will be held via Zoom from 8am-9am. Dates of future meetings will continue to be the first Friday of the month: 12/4/2020, 1/8/2021, 2/5/2021, 3/5/2021, 4/2/2021, 5/7/2021 and 6/4/2021