JOINT LABOR/MANAGEMENT SAFETY & HEALTH COMMITTEE MEETING

Thursday, January 5, 2006  9:00 PM                                                                                       

Attendees:

Management                                                                          MHU  

Florence D. Spady, Plant Manager                                           Joyce Rogers Chief Steward

Jerry Capie, Manager Maintenance

Eileen Ansuini, Manager Dist Op (A)                            VPP                            

Joe Zembrzuski, Manager Maint Op                                         Sandra Dudley, Coordinator      

Ron Overton, Safety Specialist                                     

Raymond Maier, Manager Transportation (A)               Safety Captain

                                                                                                Rodney Carroll

Opening remarks from Florence Spady

The APWU has chosen to not participate in this Safety & Health meeting.  This is the second Safety and Health meeting in as many months that the APWU has chosen not to participate.  Additionally, the APWU still has not given a name for replacement of Mike Boyne as the VPP coordinator for the APWU.  Since the end of November, we have not had a VPP Coordinator from the APWU. 

PIVMS

·        When a supervisor utilizes their master card for an employee, the checklist is bypassed.   Gloria Prioleau along with ID systems will be changing this so that anyone who logs on, even master users will have to do the OSHA check list.

·        Stickers are being made for the badges of PIT operators concerning procedures for logging off the PIT equipment..

·        Currently an auto report printed ½ hour before each tour to check equipment is not possible.  But a canned report showing equipment issues is available, and the supervisors can print them at any time.

·        Server was down over holiday weekend.  Gloria notified ID Systems. For hardware problems, HP is available with a 4-hr turn around time to help abate the problem.  Currently ID System and the Postal Service are working on a 24/7 service, but to date no agreement has been reached.

Designated Driving Aisles/Staging

• H-10 to H-11 congestion will be handled through the cooperation of the tour Safety Captains.  Staging areas will be established and signs reflecting these changes.  This will be the start of a cooperative effort amongst the tours to established staging areas, which will also pave the way for the driving areas.

Hazard Log

·        The log was discussed and several 1767 were reviewed

Rewrap in S. Primary

·        Additional netting was placed in the area to deal with falling debris.  Also PPE was also offered to the employees.  The overhead netting and drop down screens are cleaned more frequently. 

Safety Video

·        A person at HQ has been contacted to help in putting the portions of safety videos onto Postal Vision.  As soon as the disk is ready it will be put on postal vision.  A service talk will go out explaining what the videos are and when they will start.

CPR

• The new guidelines concerning CPR will not go into effect until May 2006.  New books, courses, and the training of instructors will not take place until this time.  All MERT team members were recently trained and instructed to always give compressions; more is better.

NORTH INBOUND

• A28 will soon be taken out and a dumper will be placed at A32.

VPP

• A suggestion was made to post the weekly safety talk the safety bulleting board on the workfloor .  Also, post holders for the Safety Captains to pick up their weekly safety talks.

Next meeting tentatively scheduled for Wednesday February 8, 2006 at 6:00 AM.