Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies Safety Committee

Visit our website at http://hrcweb.nevada.edu/Safety/

 

April 15, 2005 Meeting, 10:00am, 1st Floor Conference Room (HRC-144a)

 

Attendees:

Name                                                                                                                      Phone                     e-mail

Becky Delacruz                                                                                                     54860      bdelacruz@ccmail.nevada.edu

Patricia Cruz                                                                                                          51417      cruzp@unlv.nevada.edu

Jeanette Daniels; Committee Chair                                                                    54450      danielsj@unlv.nevada.edu

Susan Murphy                                                                                                     51411      smurphy@unlv.nevada.edu

Amy Smiecinski                                                                                                    51420      smiecins@unlv.nevada.edu

Shelley Williams                                                                                                   51445      williams@med.unr.edu

Joe Zimmerman                                                                                                     51425      joseph.zimmerman@ccmail.nevada.edu

Markus Mika                                                                                                        51484      MMIKA@unlv.nevada.edu

Mosese Ohia                                                                                                        51120      ohiam@unlv.nevada.edu

 

Alarms

 

·      Lab 167, 164/168 and lab 173 are now alarmed automatically at 8pm each evening.  The first person entering each morning is to deactivate the alarm. 

·      Will be alarming bird range (firearms).  May have to put gun powder into a magazine.  Ornithology is looking into this.

 

Hazardous Waste

 

      From EH&S - Overall, the staff of the Harry Reid Center does a very good job of managing the hazardous wastes generated there. There are few areas that need additional attention:

 

·                                 HRC – 208 – Weekly inspections are not always current: as of 03/31 the last inspection was documented on 03/18. UNLV policy requires a documented weekly inspection of the satellite accumulation area (even if no waste is generated during that week).

·                                 HRC - 308 – Weekly inspections are not always current: as of 03/31 the last inspection was documented on 03/02. UNLV policy requires a documented weekly inspection of the satellite accumulation area. It is possible that there may be an access-issue for the HRC staff that performs the inspection. This raises a larger issue of the generator of the hazardous waste may not be sufficiently familiar with the regulations that pertain to it.

·                                 HRC – 315 – Weekly inspections are not always current: as of 03/31 the last inspection was documented on 02/10. UNLV policy requires a documented weekly inspection of the satellite accumulation area.  This has been an ongoing problem for this lab.

 

Training

 

·      QA staff is now radiation trained to enable them to conduct audits in radiation areas

·      Kris Davidson, computer specialist,  has taken radiation training to allow him to work on computers in rad areas

·      Becky brought the April 2005 “Day to Day Safety” handout and this was posted on HRC’s safety website, http://hrcweb.nevada.edu/safety/ under “What’s New.”

 

Remodels/Upgrades

 

·      Asbestos floor in Lab 173 has been remediated

·      Lab 165 has been remodeled.  This includes floor, ceiling tiles and paint

·      1st floor bathroom remodel completed

·      Painting of HRC not complete

·      First floor conference room upgrade complete

·      Keys – check the e-mail from Jeanette.  Shelley did not get the e-mail.  Ornithology (students with an existing Marlok card for the Biology Building) request that buildings be added to existing Marlok cards rather than having to carry multiple cards.  (See attachment.)

 

Fire Safety

 

·      Clark County Fire toured on April 14.  In HRC-308, fireman asked about the hole in the wall. 

·      Incident 2/14/05:  The fire alarms went off mid-morning and HRC evacuated.  The responding fire truck was seen by a number of personnel with flashing lights in a parking lot off of Maryland Pkwy directly east of HRC.  Mark Buttner, who was in that area, was asked by the fire truck driver how to get to HRC.  The firetruck did not approach HRC from the South or the North, the only 2 approaches.  According to the committee, UNLV Public Safety police are to meet emergency vehicles and escort them to the appropriate building.  This failed to occur.  Mosese volunteered to check on why the fire truck was lost and how recurrence will be prevented.

 

Meeting termination:

The meeting was ended by 11am.

 

Meeting Minutes Distribution: 

Committee members, HRC personnel, meeting attendees, http://hrcweb.nevada.edu/Safety/

ATTACHMENT

 

MessageFrom: Jeanette Daniels [danielsj@unlv.nevada.edu]

Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:48 PM

To: gigueta@unlv.nevada.edu; POLLARDJ@unlv.nevada.edu; Amy Smiecinski (smiecins@unlv.edu); Anthony Hechanova; BLAIRL@unlv.nevada.edu; CIZDZIEJ@unlv.nevada.edu; Klaus Stetzenbach; KLICKA@unlv.nevada.edu; Mark Buttner (buttner@unlv.edu); Pattie Baldwin

Subject: Keys

 

I have incomplete key lists for a lot of the building.  The museum needs to add in the people where they belong.  Please realize we only have the one submaster for the museum.  All groups need to add or fix the key lists so they are correct.  Once I have everyone's feedback, that is what will go into the lockshop so we can move on this.

 

Thank you,

 

Jeanette Daniels

 

HRC Locks

 

 

 

 

 

 

Group

 

 

 

Room Number

Submaster

Room Keys

Microbiology

 

 

 

222

5

1

Chemistry

 

 

 

233

5

2

Cultural Resources

 

 

 

237

5

3

Environmental Assessment

 

 

 

239

5

4

QA

 

 

 

240

5

5

Ornithology

 

 

 

242

5

6

NSTG

 

 

 

243

5

7

Facilities

 

 

 

245

5

8

Front Office

 

 

 

247

5

9

 

 

 

 

248

5

10

Room Number

Submaster

Room Keys

 

 

 

 

146

1

1

 

Room Number

Submaster

Room Keys

201

1

1

 

101

3

1

203

1

1

 

106

3

2

205

1

2

 

107

3

3

207

1

3

 

109

3

4

208

1

1

 

111

3

5

209

1

4

 

113

3

6

211

1

5

 

115

3

7

213

1

6

 

112

3

8

215

1

7

 

176

n/a

9

410

1

1

 

178

n/a

10

 

 

 

 

270

n/a

9

Room Number

Submaster

Room Keys

 

273

n/a