Minutes of the Physics Division ES&H Committee
October 9, 2006

Attendees:

John Emes

Noel Gorman

John Kadyk

Stewart Loken

Ron Madaras

Frank Rosado

Jim Siegrist

Tony Spadafora

Helmuth Spieler

Cathy Thompson

Barbara Tuse

Marty White

1) Quarterly Reports

-  Now due; about half of 17 have been turned in

-  Noel is concentrating on employees who have not turned them in…Doing informal walkthroughs to meet lab owners

-  Give owners one more week to turn reports in

-  No violations have been listed on the reports that have been turned in

2) Safety Coordinator’s Position

-  EH&S will post a position that will cover both divisions

-  Siegrist to check with DeBusk

3) GERT Training

-  25 employees have not taken GERT

-  108 have not taken current version

-  Noel will contact those who need to take the current version

4) Ergo Training

-  30 employees still have not taken Ergo Training

-  Important to get this training completed

-  Must have 85% of employees trained or we are “in the red”

-  Discussion of issues between database and HR; employees no longer at LBNL are still on the list

-  Important to go through list of names to see if this is valid

-  Suggestion: Look up profile of each person

5) Supervisors and Managers Course

-  This is a one-time course

-  Many people who attended the course were not given credit

-  The entire division was given the course at least once (1/23/06)

-  List will need some cleaning up

Action Item: Check with Kathie Hardy for sign-in sheet

6) CATS Update (M. White)

-  37 findings have been closed

-  6 open; on schedule (anchoring of bookcases)

-  5 open; overdue

-  One of the open findings involve emergency signage; Building Mgrs have been contacted. Flavio Robles is the POC for this

-  Discussion of who should pay for relocation/upgrade of signage (evacuation)

7) Integrated Safety Management (ISM)

-  Slides from presentation have been distributed

-  Favorable comments re: Waste Management

-  What will happen to this? Will they be turned into action items?

-  Many complaints are Lab-wide, not just in PH Division

-  Physics will wait for further instruction, timeline, etc.

8) Additional Safety Issues

-  Safety responsibilities for G. Smoot need to be re-assigned to someone else. Quarterly walk around needs to be done. George’s lab space is not very active and should not have any violations.

-  Student Safety Meeting: Look at Jim’s calendar and pick a date by next meeting