The Febuary meeting was
held on the 12th at Caterpillar. John Dougherty and Kristen
Huber of Caterpillar hosted the meeting and spoke on electronic safety
audits.
Paul Felkey welcomed everyone to the
Greater Lafayette Area Safety Council meeting and thanked John & Kristen for
providing the facility and hosting the meeting.
Old Business:
E-mail addresses are needed for all future correspondence. All invoices,
newsletters, and company membership information will be sent out
electronically in 2003. Please let Michelle Levell
michelle.levell@subaru-sia.com know your e-mail address to update the
GLASC database.
New Business:
John Robinson of the Hoosier Safety
Council wanted everyone to know that they have a new website that is more
user friendly. So check it out
www.hoosiersafetycouncil.org. GLASC will have a booth at the 17th
Annual HSC and we will need volunteers to work the booth and volunteers to
moderate the different sessions at the HSC. If you volunteer to moderate
2 sessions in one day you get free entry into the conference for that
day. GLASC will be setting up a liason to help communicate between HSC &
Lafayette. Everyone in GLASC does receive the member rate to attend the
17th Annual Hoosier Safety Conference in West Lafayette.
Joyce Peterson will be the liaison between the Hoosier Safety Council
and GLASC for the 17th Annual Safety Conference being held in West Lafayette
at Cumberland Place. Please contact her if you are interested in being a
moderator at any of the sessions. Her e-mail is
joycep@hustonelectric.com
Feature Presentation:
John Dougherty
described the electronic audits (e-audits) that are required by all
supervisors monthly. He spoke of the weekly safety talks on different
specific topics, monthly supervisor safety training, and an accident
investigation procedure that the supervisors must do whenever there is an
accident or near miss in their area and then the supervisor is graded by
the Safety Department on the throroughness of the investigation and the
report. John stated that the accident reports are started in Medical and
routed to all supervisors electronically. All recordkeeping is kept by
the Safety Department.
The Supervisors are
reviewed monthly and the scores of their accident investigations are a part
of their review. John stated that the goal of their safety matrix from the
beginning has been employee involvement, for everyone to be proactive, and
to create a new and dynamic safety culture.
Kristen spoke on the
electronic audit procedure. She stated that there are four different types
of audits – monthly, weekly, daily, and special projects. Whenever an item
is noted on the audit forms it is added to an action item “punchlist.” The
technician starts the report, the supervisor reads the report, and send this
to safety. They have different colors to represent the urgency in which
these punchlist items must be countermeasured. The Caterpillar safety
matrix system was put together by their Information Systems Department in
Cold Fusion.
Both John & Kristen
said that the quality of their accident investigations has gone up and it
has created accountability.
Meeting concluded at 2:35pm.
