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Lafayette, IN 47903

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April 2002

 

April 2002

Next GLASC Meeting
GLASC will not be having an April nor May meeting due to the 16th Annual Hoosier Safety Council Meeting being in West Lafayette.  This will take place April 30th – May 2nd at Cumberland Place Exhibition Center.  If you are interested in attending this you can register by either visiting their website at www.hoosiersafetycouncil@msn.com  or give them a call at 800-537-5346.   

Our next meeting is June 12th at Unity Pavilion in the Training Room at 12 noon.  The topic has yet to be decided.  Please check our website as it gets closer to June for more details on this meeting.

 

March Meeting Minutes

The March meeting was held on the 13th at Subaru-Isuzu Automotive.  Officer Dan A. Larson of the Purdue University Police Department presented a Workplace Violence Awareness & Prevention seminar. 

Paul Felkey welcomed everyone to the Greater Lafayette Area Safety Council meeting and then he went over the Treasurer’s Report for February-March.  The 16th Annual Hoosier Safety Council Meeting will be held in West Lafayette.  This will take place April 30th – May 2nd at Cumberland Place Exhibition Center.  If you are interested in attending this you can register by either visiting their website at www.hoosiersafetycouncil@msn.com  or give them a call at 800-537-5346.   John Robison from the Hoosier Safety Council was in attendance at our meeting and announced that there will be 72 sessions this year and on Wednesday evening May 1st there will be an open Hospitality Room from 5:30pm – 7pm.  You may e-mail John for a list of the general sessions that will be offered.  These will not be published before the meeting.

Diane Mack from BUSET was also on hand and announced that there is a position open at BUSET and if anyone is interested to contact her.  

Old Business:

Volunteers are still needed for the Hoosier Safety Council Annual Meeting sub-committee.  Contact Mary Smith if you are interested in volunteering.  Her e-mail is mlsmith@lilly.com

E-mail addresses are needed for all future correspondence.  All invoices, newsletters, and company membership information will be sent out electronically in 2002.  Please let Michelle Byrd know your e-mail address to update the GLASC database.

New Business:

There was no new business.

Feature Presentation:  

Officer Dan A. Larson of the Purdue University Police Department presented a Workplace Violence Awareness & Prevention seminar.  *NOTE*   Dan will also be presenting this presentation at the 16th Annual Hoosier Safety Council Meeting.

The seminar focused on awareness and prevention of workplace violence.  He spoke about how to recognize warning signs, what your options are if you are faced with this type of situation, how quickly a situation can escalate, how important it is to report an incident if you observe someone being threatened or overhear anything strange.  He also spoke about previous incidences of workplace violence and even local incidents to make you aware that it can happen anywhere and anytime. 

The Top Ten Supervision Pitfalls to Avoid that he mentioned are:

  1. Discounting or ignoring ominous threats

  2. Failing to have security personnel nearby when threat of violence appears to be genuine

  3. Allowing the supervisor who is a possible victim to conduct the interview with the alleged perpetrator

  4. Avoiding suspension of an individual pending the investigation, because you are afraid of the consequences.  (The problem will likely get worse, not better.)

  5.  Use of confrontational behavior.  Threatening to “call the police”, raising your voice, and/or intimidating body language

  6.  Disregarding crisis outlined procedures

  7. Neglecting communication with employees who need to know of possible threats or pending danger, after the threat has been determined to be real

  8.  When seeking a restraining order, failing to warn potential victims of possible violence, so they can take extra precautions

  9. Being manipulated by the perpetrator or employee into allowing extra latitude, permitting lower standards or accepting inappropriate behavior

  10.  Acting on impulse and terminating employee on the spot, without conducting an investigation or following the key steps of disciplinary action

This seminar is fun, entertaining, and very informative.  It makes you really think about your office, your meeting rooms, and your personal security.  This seminar is definitely worth attending.  

Meeting concluded at 2:30pm.

 

Executive Board News
The next GLASC executive board meeting will be on Wednesday, June 5 at 11:30 am, at Monical's Pizza in Lafayette.

 

 

      
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