The March meeting was held
on the 13th at SIA. John
Dougherty welcomed everyone to the Greater Lafayette Area Safety Council
meeting and thanked Michelle Levell for providing the facility for the
meeting.
Old Business:
Last month’s meeting minutes are posted on the website. The meeting
minutes were approved. Several organizations still have not paid their
$35.00 Annual Membership fee for GLASC. Please send that in as soon as
possible.
(see the legend at the bottom of the members page)
New Business:
Donna Majewski, President of the Hoosier
Safety Council, wanted everyone to know that all of the speaker sessions
are full for the 17th Annual HSC. 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. Joyce Peterson will be GLASC’s 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.
Donna also mentioned that Northern Illinois University is forming an
outreach center and you can now order CFR books on-line.
Kristen Huber , GLASC Trustee has left
Lafayette to pursue other opportunities. Andy Parker of Caterpillar has
been elected to the new GLASC Trustee position.
Feature Presentation:
Scott Defenbaugh of Workplace Safety
Solutions out of Danville, Illinois presented our feature topic – Permit
Required Confined Space Rescue. Scott has 11 years experience and is a
volunteer member of a rescue team.
Scott stressed that one of the most
important questions when you are determining whether you need a confined
space rescue team is “how long is it going to take to retrieve someone?”
if you have to call an outside rescue agency. Also he mentioned that if
you do contract someone to perform your confined space rescues you are
still responsible to make sure that the team is trained and is safe.
Scott handed out a packet of materials to follow along with his
presentation.
