EXHIBIT 13-B
MINUTES
Team Safety Meeting
June 14, 2005
- The meeting
was called to order at 9:30 am in the 5 Harris Court Conference Room -
MEMBERS
PRESENT: Thomas Christensen, Rick Dickhaut, Darby Fuerst, Debby
Martin, Cynthia Schmidlin
MEMBERS ABSENT: None
I. TOPICS OF DISCUSSION
A. Follow-up to Annual 5 Harris Court
Inspection Report:
1) A part of the March 4th inspection
report regarded all of the unused computer equipment being stored in the garage. A rented storage room in the same Monterey
facility that the District uses for its archives also contains a large amount
of very old computer equipment. As part
of this year’s budget discussions, it was decided that this storage room would
be emptied. Therefore, we need to do a
large-scale removal of all unused computer equipment being stored in both of
these locations. Rick Dickhaut will ask Inder Osahan to indicate the worthless
equipment with red stickers, so that it may be disposed of under the District’s
new policy. This equipment will be taken
to the Monterey Waste Management District for recycling before the next Team
Safety Meeting.
2) Thomas will speak to Andy Bell about the status of Planning and Engineering Division’s sorting, organizing, consolidating, and transporting of boxes stored in their file room to archives. They were also looking into the installation of storage shelves above the file cabinets to safely store boxed records retained at 5 Harris Court.
3) The items noted for other Divisions in the inspection report have been remedied.
B. Fire Drill: Cynthia presented the first installment of a
2-part staff safety training on Emergency Evacuation at last month’s Staff
Meeting. Part of that training included
a Power Point slide on “Assembly” describing the process for an orderly exit
from the building during a crisis situation such as fire, explosions, or bomb
threats. She will distribute that slide
during Part II of the Emergency Evacuation training in July, for staff to keep
at their work stations. Team Safety
discussed testing staff’s awareness of the procedure in a fire drill, to be
held at an upcoming Staff Meeting, when the largest number of employees can
participate.
C. Training: Staff who access the District’s confined
space at the Sleepy Hollow Steelhead Rearing Facility, or may act as
spotter/rescue personnel for those entering the space, received an 8-hour
Confined Spaces Training in May. Upcoming training will include Hazmat
Training, Heat Stress, Back, and Eye Safety Training, as well as CPR
Training/Recertification. It was suggested that staff should receive instruction
on the procedure for dealing with snake bites.
However, several team members stated that the prevalent advice today is
just call 911 or rush a victim to the hospital, rather than to use a snake-bite
kit or try to suction out the poison, as this may spread it. As long-held ideas
on safety response change, the training provided by the Red Cross also adjusts
its position on such areas. This has
been the case with CPR methods. Driver Safety Training was also suggested by
team members to be added to the training schedule in early 2006.
II. NEXT TEAM SAFETY MEETING
The next Team Safety Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, August 23rd
at 9:30 pm.
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