2004 Environmental Health and Safety

Committee's September Minutes:

The survey will be discussed at our next meeting, in the Facility Planning and Management Conference room, on October 19, at 3:15 p. m.   Please note the meeting time and date on your calendars.

September 14, attendance, area of representation :

Permanent Members

Following is a listing of Permanent Members to the Environmental Health and Safety Committee:

•  Representative from Human Resources –- Steve Lane -present

•  Representative from Housing/Dining Services - Mark Shaklee absent

•    Representative from Arts and Humanities - Jeff Boshart   absent

•  Representative from Life Science - Sandra Baumgartner absent

•  Representative from Education and Professional Studies - Robert Bates absent

•  Representative from Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences [Lumpkin Hall]- Karen Nantz present

•  Representative from Facilities Planning and Management - Mike Carter Jr. present

•  Campus Safety Officer. The Campus Safety Officer will serve permanently as the Meeting Convener. - Gary Hanebrink present

•  Representative from Physical Sciences - Vacant

•  Three volunteers from the Environmental Health and Safety Committee. Volunteers will serve three year terms. - Jeff Cross present, Dr. Wall present, Kathy Cartwright absent,

Members [at Large]

•  Representative from University Police – Lt Hatfield

•  Representative form Lumpkin college of Business and Applied Science [Klehm Hall]– Martha Brown

•  Representative form Safety Programs – Becky Markwell

•  Representative form Civil Service Council- Dan Carpenter

•  Representative from, Vice President for Student Affairs- Keith Kohanzo

•  Representative from School of Adult and Continuing Education Robin Rennels

•  General Counsel, Joe Barron

This year's meetings schedule will be on the second Tuesday of each month through May of 2005. No changes will be made unless it is discussed at the committee meeting.

The minutes of the first meeting:

1. Comments from the April 23, 2004 meeting minutes will be discussed at the October meeting. 2. Discussed the Survey

• Indoor Air Quality issue was discussed and Committee concluded that “no one solution or procedure will address all the problems”.   If a problem occurs then these problems may be brought to the committee.   There was a discussion geared toward answering the question is there a need for a policy.   It was concluded with the consensus of the committee that an IAQ policy would not be necessary for this time.
• The topic of establishing standing sub committees, to address focus areas of concern, was discussed.   The committee has agreed to not form sub committees at this time.
• The committee suggested methods to reach out to the campus community though the newsletter for safety concern or comments.

3. Review of bylaws http://www.eiu.edu/~environ/Committee/bylaws.htm

•  The committee felt a need to review the EHSC bylaws.   A focus group was formed to review the bylaws.   [Martha Brown, Karen Nantz, Joe Barron.]

4. Set 2005 Goals for the committee-

• Bylaws
• After Hours call for Tornado warnings
• Report from Grants and Research – Bob Chestnut

5. Invitation to Vice President Jeff Cooley at the October meeting to commission the committee's goals.

6. Review of Committee member who are listed on the Permanent Member roster.

7. Safety Concerns-

•  Lack of light at the Forth Street Crossing- e-mail was sent to Gary Reed to address this problem.