McMaster University Central Joint Health and Safety Committee Minutes. Wednesday, March 15, :30 a.m. 10:00 a.m.

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1 McMaster University Central Joint Health and Safety Committee Minutes Wednesday, March 15, :30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. MUSC Room 318 Management Member Department Affiliation Attendance Jill Axisa President s Office Karin Cassidy (Certified Member) Safety Office, FHSc Brendan McCrory Hospitality Services Tony Cupido Physical Plant Mary Ruth Linkert (Certified Member) Mills Memorial Library Debbie Marinoff-Shupe (Certified Member) Athletics and Recreation TMG Absent Cathie Miller Housing and Conference Services Cathy O Donnell Security and Parking Services Worker Member Department Affiliation Attendance Nancy Clark (Certified Member) Program in Occupational Health & Environmental Medicine MUSA Present Simon Hughes Hospitality SEIU Joan Jones Kathy Noble Security and Parking Services USWA Absent Diana Parker Security and Parking Services MUSA Present Janice Rischke (Certified Member) Medicine MUSA Present Andrew Skelton CUPE Absent Carl Sterback (Certified Member) Physical Plant IUOE Present Dave Stevens (Certified Member) Physical Plant SEIU Absent Guests Department Affiliation Attendance Karen Belaire Vice-President (Administration) TMG Absent Susan Black McMaster Association of Part-Time Students MAPS Absent Christopher Hurley Environmental & Occupational Health Wanda McKenna Employee Work-Life TMG Monica Curtis Dave Tucker Health Physics Simon Ouellet Environmental & Occupational Health Sheila Rieth (Certified Member) Environmental & Occupation Health Steve Fletcher Environmental & Occupation Health Page 1 of 5

2 Action Items N. Clark (Chair) opened the meeting. Minutes of the previous meeting Minutes approved with amendments. Action Items from the Minutes of the Previous Meeting 1a.) S. Ouellet to follow up with Sherry Dobbs on new representative. S. Ouellet advised that Sherry Dobbs is aware there is a vacancy but presently dealing with TA issues. S. Ouellet will speak with N. Clark 1.) S. Ouellet to follow up with N. Clark on vacancy. 1b.) EOHSS (C. Hurley) to check with McIARS committee if the December 2004 presentation was recorded. C. Hurley confirmed there are recorded minutes of this presentation. M. Fisher added EOHSS has received a copy of the minutes. 2.) T. Cupido to follow up with C. Figuiera on report. T. Cupido advised this is on going and that the venting is being looked at. This space is being used for something other than what it was built for and present occupants (Physio) will be moving to their new location this year. 3.) EOHSS (S. Fletcher) to request an inventory of lasers. S. Fletcher advised the Laser inventory listing is 85% complete with only a few 3B and 4 type lasers that would require training. Laser training will be available during NAOSH week. One training program will be provided for all. 4.) T. Cupido to follow up with grounds on salting/sanding issues. T. Cupido advised this is handled on a day to day basis, as weather conditions fluctuate. T. Cupido stated that as always icy conditions can be called into for action. 2.) EOHSS (S. Fletcher) to follow up with CJHSC when inventory complete and training organized. 5.) T. Cupido to update Central JHSC committee on fume hoods & venting upgrade approval. T. Cupido advised approval still pending and that we are looking at a 2 year timeline. 6.) EOHSS (C. Hurley & W. McKenna) to follow up on incident injury report distribution to all committees. C. Hurley stated that he and W. McKenna have met and can confirm that the same report is being sent to all committees but it is possible that not all committees review the report. S. Fletcher will follow up with EOHSS staff both on reporting and on supporting the committees with the review of this important data. 7.) EOHSS (S. Fletcher) to review the level of contamination regarding Tile Grinding. S. Fletcher advised that the new Asbestos regulations came out in November 2005 which state that unless filtration is provided work should not process or would then be a level 3. The work was done in July 2005 and workers have since been instructed on the proper procedure under the new regulations. 3.) EOHSS (S. Fletcher) to follow up with EOHSS staff on incident injury reporting, as some groups may want more than just the summaries. 8.) S. Ouellet to follow up with D. Tucker on the training in question. D. Tucker stated that the extra training was on radioisotopes. 9.) EOHSS (C. Hurley) to follow up with R. Nielson regarding storage of flammable cylinders. C. Hurley stated that a storage location for NRB has not been determined yet. 10.) EOHSS (M. Fisher) to follow up on date of latest meeting for McIARS. M. Fisher stated January and March ) S. Rieth to forward terms of reference for Physical Plant to D. Parker. S. Rieth to resend terms of reference for Physical Plant. 12.) EOHSS (M. Fisher) to notify co-chairs that recorded minutes should state members by first initial and surnames. 4.) EOHSS (S. Rieth) to forward terms of reference for Physical Plant to D. Parker. Page 2 of 5

3 M. Fisher advised item completed. 13.) EOHSS (S. Fletcher) to follow up on policy change for RMM 700. S. Fletcher explained that policy changes must go through Senior Management Team. It is still at this stage. 14.) T. Cupido to invite DTC member to attend Central as guest T. Cupido advised that an invitation has been extended. Basic Certification Training Update Tabled to April 2006 meeting. Approvals from Senior Management Air Quality Faculty / Departmental Minutes Throughout the discussion of the minutes acronyms and technical terms were defined. The Committee decided that perhaps in future the sub committees could try to avoid these practices or include explanations. Art Quad (December 2005) N. Clark advised that (page 2 Inspections) the act stated a portion of the inspections must be done monthly. C. Hurley stated that the minutes for December 2005 were not accurate and that a number of members had resigned. N. Clark requested this be adjusted in the next set of minutes. Administration (January 2006) Discussion arose regarding the development and review of new training in response to the mention of Asbestos training in these minutes. WSIB rules were clarified to the Committee. Central JHSC members were invited to attend new training programs delivered by EOHSS to provide feedback and offer input. Steve Fletcher stated that training delivered by EOHSS will increase in 2006 but external agencies may be used for training of specialized topics. 4a) Steve Fletcher to action re site specific training D. Parker inquired (page 3) as to a date on the dock upgrades for CNH. C. Hurley advised they were waiting for warmer weather conditions. Chedoke (Minutes not available) Commons (Minutes not available) DeGroote Health & Safety Committee (Minutes not available) Downtown Centre (Minutes not available) Engineering (Minutes not available) Frid Street (Minutes not available) Hamilton General (December 2005, February 2006) It was clarified that the WHMIS quiz is an online option for outlying employees. February 2006 Health Sciences (February 2006) N. Clark stated that her comment (page 2 last paragraph) was not accurate, as she was not present at the meeting. A correction will be noted in the next set of minutes. 5.) K. Cassidy to have minutes changed to reflect N. Clark s comments. Page 3 of 5

4 Henderson (January 2006) It was clarified by J. Rischke that the committee has submitted reports about the smell of burning plastic to the hospital. She also clarified that as the property is owned by the hospital, it is difficult to maintain compliance with items such as the closing of the chemical storage room door. Hospitality (January 2006) Ivor Wynne Centre (November 2005) N. Clark stated meeting did not have quorum and that minutes should note information only. D. Parker inquired as to what the committee s terms of reference stated to meet quorum. C. Hurley advised that he is not sure if they have terms of reference. D. Parker inquired as to the level of certification committee member D. Marinoff-Shupe has. N. Clark advised she have level 2 adding that W.Terryberry has basic. Libraries & Museum (Minutes not available) MCIARS (January 2006) D. Tucker clarified that the bike room is being renovated for use as a meeting room. The clutter from the bikes is being addressed. He also clarified that staff training is mandated by the MOL MDCL (January 2006) N. Clark advised this committee is looking for 3 new members for their inspections. Physical Plant (Minutes not available) Science (January 2006) St. Joseph s (Minutes not available) Stonechurch (January 2006) Technical Committee Minutes Biosafety (January 2006) Health Physics Advisory Committee EWLSS Healthy Workplace Group (Minutes not available) Summary of Incidents D. Parker inquired (page 3) if the Tim Horton s incident was new or a continuation of a prior incident. M. Curtis advised this is a new incident. D. Parker inquired (page 5 item 8) if this was wet waste. S. Rieth advised it is and they are looking at drilling holes in the garbage container to ease the suction when removing bag. C. Miller inquired as to where the liquid goes. D. Parker suggested more scheduled pick ups. S. Rieth advised additional pick ups are an option and that issue is under review as currently the staff has the leeway to decide this themselves. Garbage will be put on the side. N. Clark inquired (page 2 item 4) if this was a mistake and whether they were working with the fume hood. C. Hurley advised that student was working under the fume the hood and made the mistake of removing the acid from the fume hood when the etching plate started to smoke. C. Page 4 of 5

5 Hurley stated that along with S. Fletcher that the students had complete retraining in the last week. K. Cassidy stated that the RMSG committee felt the Faculty of Health Sciences incident and injuries should be included in the current report provided by EWLSS. This means there will be several more pages to the report but that 85-90% of these incidents are hazard related and not injury related. D. Parker inquired as to what month the annual summary report is available. M. Curtis advised she is not sure and will follow up with Wanda McKenna. The incident/injury report for month of March 2006: Employees (35) Students / Visitors (5) Hazardous - 1 Hazardous - 2 Incident, no FA - 2 Incident, no FA - 1 First Aid - 8 First Aid - 1 Healthcare - 13 Healthcare - 1 Lost Time - 8 ( 90 days) Gradual Onset ) K. Cassidy to forward incident stats to EWLSS. 7.) EWLSS (M. Curtis) to follow up with Wanda McKenna regarding the date the annual summary report is available. Healthy Work Place Initiatives Policy/Program Update RMM 602 Rabies update. RMM 104 & 105 update RMM 405 Ergonomics Safety (Sheila Rieth) New Business It was discussed that much time was spent on review of sub Committee minutes leaving less than ten minutes for the business of the Committee. It was decided that new business and policy updates will be moved to the start of the next meeting as these have been outstanding. The Chair for the next meeting: Cathy O Donnell Next meeting: Wednesday, April 19, :30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. MUSC 224 PLEASE NOTE: If you cannot attend the meeting, please send an alternate so that the business of the committee can be conducted. Page 5 of 5