HomeMy WebLinkAboutSafety Committee Minutes (28)The quarterly safety meeting will be at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, January 15, 2019 in the conference room
on the first floor of City Hall.
if you are unable to attend personally kindly select someone to attend in your place. hwould be
appreciated if you would notify the shop stewards or safety representatives of the meeting also.
The proposed Safety Meeting Agenda is;
• Approval ofMinutes — April 1Q 2U1Q,July 18 2018 and December 11, 2018 meetings
° Old Business
• Review of Injury and Liability Claims - Liability claim 12-20-1218, Incident Report 12/27/2018
• New Business
• Other Concerns orcomments
Safety Committee Meeting —January 15, 2019 11:00AM
Council Conference Room
|nAttendance: Justin Baker, Karen Courtney, Kurt K4arkeuand(11:20AM joined),Stan Langve Brent
Peters, Tim Reiter, Nancy Schmidt, Fran 3chvve' rtK4attVVhee|er
Absent: Thomas Henry, Nathan Herman, Matt Lurker, HP Nuernberger
Meeting Called to order @ 11:03 AM
• Approval of Minutes — April 18, 2018, July 18, 2018 and Decerilber 11, 2018 meetings — Motion
to approve made by Stan Langve, seconded by Fran Schweigert, motion passes to approve
= Old Business Safety Policy ostill mlegal review with City Attorney. Karen will be meeting with
him on January 23 d and will see if she is able to get his approval,ofthe Safety Policy so that it
can continue to Council for adoption.
• Review of Injury and Liability Claims — review�flnds no action required to address policy.
Discussion of better ice cleats for all City workers. The report has been changed to meet HIIPA
standards when presented to the Safety Committee.
• New Business
o Brent Peters shared an 6xamplIelof the ice cl -eats, he has been ordering for the Fire
Department and that are used at , the refinery. He, spoke of the advantages of using this
type of cleat as they do not heed to be removed when not in use. It was decided that
these would be ordered for all City workeirs,with extra , pairs. Brent will work with local
Ace store, as they are trying to becomea;'distributor for the product, and get them
�Other Concerns or tornments,
o Brent spoke about folio wing upon in cidents and not making it a negative or disciplinary
action b,ut rather a refresher for the departments. He urged everyone to talk briefly at
t h e i r morning mee ti ngs about s 4 f ety - requ" i rements for the day due to weather, projects,
etc. Therefore'removing the stigma th at if incident reported will be disciplined.
Karen stated the,1OSHA 300a forms have been signed as of this morning and copies will
be dispersed to the—departi-rient heads for posting on the employee right to know
boards in all City Buildings.
• Fran brought up the,safety inspections that had been done at the parks (except
Thompson & Kid's Kingdom — to be completed). Some items that were found in the
inspecti6n,have already been addressed and he will continue to address them as he can.
Some issues , will, be more extensive as they will require planning on the part of the city
of how to bring into compliance.
o Kurt discussed the projects thatareinprognessatVVTPand\NVVTP.Vests hard hats and
beaware ofheavy equipment and people ifhaving togotothose areas.
o Inspection of City Buildings has found issues with ice, fire escape inspection for stability,
and maintenance. Fire hazards have been identified as well. PD and Fire are still on the
list 1obeassessed.
o Justin stated that the fuel tanks at shop have been removed so that hazard no longer
exists, the fire extinguisher that was on the fuel island is being kept in the office as a
backup. Fire extinguishers have been serviced for the year, people with City vehicles will
be responsible for inspecting and signing off monthly, as well as each building needing
to do a monthly inspection of their extinguishers. Once Karen has updated inventory list,
they will be given to the departments so they can ensure they have located and
inspected all of them monthly.
Meeting adjourned at 11:45 AM.