UC Field Safety Workgroup

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UC Field Safety Workgroup

• Report on April 4, 2003 meeting
• Chair, Russell Vernon, Ph.D.
• Laboratory/Research Safety
• EHS, UC Riverside

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Overall GoalSimple User Friendly

• Create brochure about the process
• Website for user to easily discover the hazards
  and controls that must be included in their field
  safety plans and to create such a plan
• With a risk assessment decision tree

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What are the topics the participants felt
important to cover?

• Discussed variety of current activities
  accidents

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Field Safety Brainstorm
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Identified Key Topics

• Communication
• Transportation
• Field Plan Examples Decision Trees
• Risk Management
• Responsibility Accountability
• Computer Resources
• Medical Considerations
• Security

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Topic Subcommittees

• Members self selected
• Champions advocates
• Identified deadline July1st
• Scope of 1st step - delineate all the elements of
  each major topic
• 1-year goal - draft brochure beginnings of
  website

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Charter Goals

• Agreed with the draft charter and mission, as
  written, with reservations about the creation of
  an academic course
• Will revisit that goal at a future date

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Conference Calls

• Monthly conference calls 4th Thursday of each
  month at 900 resume in May
• May 22
• June 26
• July 24
• August 28
• September 25
• October 23
• no call in November , or December

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Discussion?