Environmental, Safety & health

1. New Employee Orientation Environmental, Safety & health

2. Introduce Office of Risk Management • Discuss Additional Duty Safety Officers • Briefly cover asbestos safety • Determine applicable training for your new position • Answer any questions you may have in the short term ES&H orientation Objectives

3. ES&H Orientation Risk Management

4. Risk Management’s long-term goal is to minimize risk exposure to the physical, human, fiscal, and environmental resources of the University • To minimize the impact of losses, the University shall: • Routinely identify significant risks to which the University may be exposed • Avoid unnecessary or unreasonable exposures to the extent practicable • Take reasonable and practical proactive steps to anticipate and/or prevent harmful events and losses • Initiate reasonable and appropriate loss control techniques to minimize the frequency, impact, and severity of losses that are unavoidable Office of risk management

5. Risk Management is committed to ES&H continuous improvement • Risk Management will be conducting audits throughout TWU campuses to identify areas for improvement • New programs and training requirements will be coming out • Feel free to contact Risk Management with concerns or suggestions! ES&H program improvements

6. The less incidents at the bottom of the pyramid, the less likely a more serious incident occurs • So, report all concerns or potential incidents to your supervisor and the Director of ES&H! Safety Incident pyramid

7. http://www.twu.edu/rm/ Risk Management website

8. Harold JohnsonAssociate Vice President, Facilities Management and Construction/Risk Manager • Office: 940.898.3130 • Matt Moustakas, Director of Environmental, Safety & Health • Office: 940.898.2924 • Mobile: 940.465.4084 • mmoustakas@twu.edu Office of Risk Management

9. ES&H Orientation Additional duty safety officers

10. Each department is required to designate an Additional Duty Safety Officer • The ADSO acts as the point of contact for Risk Management/Director of ES&H • Risk Management will communicate the policies, procedures, regulations, and standards to the University community through the ADSOs • ADSOs are usually the person tasked with maintaining the departmental emergency plan Additional duty safety officers

11. ES&H Orientation Asbestos

12. Briefly discuss asbestos on at TWU since most employees do not receive specific asbestos training • There are significant quantities of building materials on campus that contain asbestos • Asbestos in building materials that is intact and left in place is not hazardous • So…do not disturb any building materials! • i.e. cutting, drilling, sanding, buffing, etc. • Building materials are tested, and any asbestos is removed by a remediation contractor before any renovations proceed Asbestos

13. ES&H Orientation training

14. Risk Management has developed a checklist of training requirements based on your work activities (click here for a copy of the form) • Read through the descriptions of the work tasks/ activities and check those that apply to you • Give the checklist to your ADSO or send to Risk Management (fax 940-898-3148) • These training requirements will be entered into the Risk Management training database Training

15. Training is available in the following formats: • Risk Management classroom training • Departmental classroom/meeting training • “On the job” training (generally provided one-on-one by supervisors) • Blackboard training • Click here for instructions for accessing ES&H training in Blackboard Training

16. All employees who are on campus regularly are required to complete the Fire Safety/ Evacuation training…why not complete it now! Follow the instructions on the previous slide to access the ES&H training in Blackboard, review the Fire Safety/Evacuation PowerPoint slides, then complete the quiz to get credit. Training

17. Questions? • Matt Moustakas, Director of Environmental, Safety & Health • Office: 940.898.2924 • Mobile: 940.465.4084 • mmoustakas@twu.edu

18. Don’t forget: • Complete the training requirements form and submit to ADSO or Risk Management (click here) • Click here for instructions for accessing ES&H training in Blackboard • Complete the Fire Safety/Evacuation Training in Blackboard, or at the next classroom session • Contact Risk Management with questions/concerns! Thank You