FM Newsletter 2014 Fall

FOCUS ON FACILITIES Fall & Winter 2014-15

Facilities Management 2014 Safety Committee Annual Report

Over the past year, the FM Safety Committee has Second, the Safety Committee has started to track

initiated and completed the following projects. all reported accidents within the FM departments

Most safety concerns were submitted to the com- of Operations, Grounds and Labor, Maintenance,

mittee using a form which can be found here: PDC, and Warehouse. The committee was able to

http://facilitiesmanagement.wvu.edu/ review all the accident reports from 2013 and com-

safety_committee. Other concerns were brought to pare them to the 2014 data. For comparing 2013

the committee’s attention through interaction of to 2014 (January-November) only, the committee

committee members with fellow employees during saw a reduction of 40 accidents. The two attached

normal day to day activities and completing work graphs show each year as a whole with reported

orders in their respective zones or areas of exper- accidents per month (pg. 4).

tise.

Finally, the Safety Committee would like to thank

Once a safety concern was received and reviewed all the members of the FM family for their exper-

by the committee, it was added to a tracking sys- tise, time, and resources spent on putting forth an

tem (FM Safety Workload). This allowed for a outstanding effort to help make WVU a safer work

monthly review of all concerns submitted being environment. With the help of fellow employees

worked on and completed for each month. A total looking out for each other by stopping or prevent-

of 37 safety concerns were submitted for the calen- ing unsafe actions happening, we are able to move

dar year of 2014 with 31 concerns being addressed forward and decrease accidents. Also, the Safety

by some format of a corrective action and repairs, Committee would like to extend an open invitation

or purchase of new equipment, training, and edu- to anyone interesting in joining the team during

cation. Several projects with detailed photos are the upcoming year. ~ Safety report and photos

attached. submitted by Brian Lemme

Clark Hall Ventilation Pit Solution to eliminate
A wooden pallet was used to access the lower the fall hazard and use
area to remove debris and other materials. The of a wooden pallet as a
pallet is not an approved ladder and the drop ladder. A door was
distance was approximate 10 ft. plus climbing installed within the
over the hand rail block wall to allow
access to Area 2 from
The pit was divided into two areas, separated Area 1 using the roll-
by a concrete block wall. The one area of the up garage door. The
pit could be accessed from within the bldg. us- new door also closes
ing a roll-up garage door for entry. (yellow) automatically to still
create the function of a
Concrete block wall which separates the pit baffle for the air in-
into two areas. The block wall is necessary takes.
and designed to baffle the pit for adjacent air
handling unit intakes (blue). Area 1 is located
upper right (red) with access from the roll-up
door. Area 2 is located lower left (yellow) and
accessed by pallet.

Safety Committee 2014 Annual Report Photos …(cont.)

One Water Front Loading Dock Trash
Compactor

Trash compactor located on loading dock.
Trash bags to be lifted above recommended
safe height and place into the compactor.
This would be very hard for employees that
are not very tall or strong.

Solution to eliminate a possible back strain/
sprain or other injury. A platform was con-
structed and installed to allow the trash to be
placed into the compactor at a more reasona-
ble height.

Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 1

Alley way
behind
Wise Li-
brary and
White Hall

Photo 2

Towers Roof Ladder and Vent Pipe Photo 1: No railing was previously pre-
Photo 1: Access ladder on Towers roof from upper roof sent. A 12 ft. fall hazard to the lower
to lower roof located over the ERC café. A vent pipe road was present. A matching handrail
(red) was located near the bottom of the ladder is posed set to industry standards of 42” was con-
a potential trip hazard when exiting the ladder. structed and installed. The old three post
Photo 2: View from upper roof looking towards the lad- rail can be seen in the upper right (red).
der. Vent pipe (red) appears far from this angle, but as The new handrail (yellow).
photo above is close to the exiting motion from the lad- Photo 2: Existing handrail that was
der. Solution was to move the ladder approximately matched (green). Other section of new
10ft. Left (yellow) and reinstalled, where no hazards handrail installed (yellow)
were present.

FOCUS ON FACILITIES

Employee News

New Employees Welcome to Facilities Management

Rachael Mayle - Warehouse

Khalif Rivers - Warehouse New Employees
Alden Craft - CSW

Jesse Peck - CSW

Matthew McClain - CSW Please welcome Thomas Evans,
Amelia LaMar - CSW FM’s newest Operations Man-
Vanel Kako Tagouh - CSW ager for PPP. A native of WV,
Shirlette Hoxter - CSW born in Weirton, later moved to
Joshua Luzier - Apprentice I Charleston, and graduated from
Justin Samples - Apprentice I

Daniel Foley - CSW WVU in 1981. He has three children, the youngest
David Boone - CSW is a freshman at WVU. Thomas had been working
Rhonda Marris - CSW in South Carolina and Virginia for the past 33 years
David Pendley - CSW in Facilities Management, manufacturing, and recy-
William Hearn - CSW cling. He is very glad to be back to WV and work-
Joy Deal - CSW ing at WVU. He enjoys outdoor activities such as
Gabriel Neff - CSW rafting, rock climbing, and mountain biking.
Jared Gales - CSW

Larteek Goode - CSW

Melanie Nichols - Assistant Supervisor Campus Serv. Please welcome Peter Doma-
Mark Thomas - CSW hoski, Facilities Manage-
James Mitchell - Trades Specialist I ment’s newest Construction
Eric Germain - HVAC/MM Manager Manager.
Steven Core - CSW

James Carney - CSW

Kenneth Lipscomb - Landscape Worker Peter will be working with Dan Batson’s group.

David Mitchell - Landscape Worker He comes from Las Vegas, Nevada where he re-
Shawn Johnson - Landscape Worker tired from the Air Force. He enjoys hiking and
Charles Long - Trades Specialist I camping and introducing his three children to the
Thomas Crawford - CSW great outdoors.
Scott Ainsley - Purchasing Assistant I

Robert Maxwell - Landscape Worker

Richard Nester, Jr. - CSW Congratulations to our recent retirees for their
Melinda Creel - CSW
Nicholas Justinger - CSW years of service.

James Jordan - CSW Ralph Culp - 37 years
Heath Helmick - CSW Lead Trades Specialist 1 PM/Shift Maint.

Dan Calhoun - CSW Stephen Erdie - 19 years
Elias Matz - CSW
Trades Specialist II Pest Control
Joe Braddock - CSW

(All new hires from the months of Sept. to Dec.) Delmas Molisee - 38 years

Campus Service Worker Zone 2 Area 1 Ops

Editor’s Note: New hires and Student Support Staff Employ- Jeffrey Smith - 7 years
ees have the option to have a photo along with a small intro-
duction about their Facilities Management years of service or Supervisor Campus Services Zone 1 Area 3 Ops
Don Tichnell - 22 years

what they would like to share with our readers. We welcome Trades Specialist Lead II Lock Shop
those who wish to participate. If you would like to contribute Richard Westerman - 8 years
to our newsletter, please email [email protected] Maintenance Worker II Lock Shop

14 12 Facilities Management Monthly Accident Totals 2014
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12 Total 75 Accidents for 2014 (Jan-Nov)
47 - Operations
10 21 - Roads/Grounds
6 - Maintenance
8 12 1 - Construction

6 8 7
5 6
5 44
4 3

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16 Facilities Management Monthly Accident Totals 2013
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Total 115 Accidents for 2013
14 52 - Operations
33 - Roads/Grounds
29 - Maintenance
14 1 - Construction

13 13 13
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88

777

66 66

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