HomeMy WebLinkAboutSafety Committee Minutes (26)The quarterly safety meeting will be at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 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. It would be
appreciated if you would notify the shop stewards or safety representatives of the meeting also.
The proposed Safety Meeting Agenda is;
• Approval of Minutes—April 18, 2018 meeting
• Update of the City of Laurel Safety Policy - Updated January 11, 2018
• Review of 1 injury reports and 1 Liability reports
• Other business or concerns
Safety Committee Meeting — July 18, 2018 11:OOAM
1St floor Conference Room
In Attendance: Karen Courtney, Nathan Herman (joined meeting @ 11:14 AM), Tim Reiter, Nancy
Schmidt, Matt Wheeler
Absent: Justin Baker, Brandon Comey, Matt Lurker, Kurt Markegard, Rick Musson, HP Nuernberger,
Brent Peters, Fran Schweigert
Meeting Called to order @ 11:10 AM
No quorum present — minutes could not be approved for April 18, 2018 meeting, will be placed
on next meeting's agenda.
Safety Policy update — With the hiring of new CAO, Matt Lurker, the Mayor has given it over to
him to review and present to Council. Changes that have been made after Department Heads'
review were all grammatical and formatting. No verbiage was changed therefore it will not be
kicked back to the Safety Committee for review.
• Claims review.
o Accident Claim — Roy Voss — stepping out of mini -excavator and rolled his ankle on a
chunk of asphalt. No medical needed. Committee believes that there was not any
unsafe act or equipment, it was just an accident that happened. Nancy asked how long
these claims stay open once filed, as this was not medical it is sent to MMIA to be
recorded but no action taken.
o Liability Claim — EMS Ambulance hit and broke a pylon at Billings Clinic while leaving the
bay. Photos were reviewed and report read. The Committee does not feel that there is
any action they can take on this claim. Karen reported that the driver at the time had
not had any formal EVOC training, not required by State of Montana. Drivers do have
approx. 16 hours of formal or supervised driving. CAO, Matt Lurker is thinking of
changing that as a policy to pass EVOC training.
Other Business or Concerns
o Karen stated that she will be attending a 3 day training in Lewistown for SafetyFest in
August. During that training she will be taking classes that will give her a better
understanding of what the State of Montana requires for the Montana Safety Cultures
Act (MSCA).
o Karen has been asked to create an evacuation plan for City Hall by CAO, Matt Lurker.
Will be putting that together. This may lead to having to be done for each building as it
will pertain to active shooter, fire, and natural disaster. Matt sees a problem as there is
no egress upstairs. The only current option, if you can't go down the stairs, is to go
through window in CAO office and onto roof of building and no way to get to ground
other than to jump.
o CAO, Matt Lurker, is also planning on having Ray Ezell, Building Official, Karen, and
himself to go through each city building and evaluate safety.
o Matt Wheeler ensured that Karen was getting the training sheets for the summer help
and ensuring that a copy was put into their personnel file. These sheets were very
beneficial during our last surprise inspection from Montana DLI.
Next meeting scheduled for October 17, 2018 @ 11:00 AM —first floor conference room (Karen
will check on availability of conference room)
0 Meeting adjourned @ 11:23 AM