Safety Si! Accidentes No! Employees and Safety are Always Numero Uno at UC Irvine

Environmental Health & Safety and Javier Mendez Safety Consulting Company joined together for a very exciting collaborative endeavor to provide required employee safety training in Spanish. The goal was to integrate safety into the workplace and define how University employees could take a lead role in creating a safety culture at work.

The 2-hour Hazard Communication Safety Training for Building, Custodial, Facilities and Trades employees was conducted on November 16, 2010 at Environmental Health and Safety. The employees who attended the training were from various groups including the Facilities Management Custodial/Groundskeeper crews, Housing Maintenance staff, and Solid Waste & Recycling team. Both training and materials were provided in Spanish.

The training consisted of group discussions, videos, visual posters, props, and handouts. The trainer, Javier Mendez was very engaging and interactive with his audience. Additional training classes are currently being developed and modified to address site specific campus policies and procedures. Training information can be accessed on the New UC Learning Center site, www.uclc.uci.edu.

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University of California, Irvine | Environmental Health & Safety

Issue 31

Winter 2010

Thanking our Safety Partners 2

Ergo Champions 2

UC Ready Congratulates ICS! 2

New! AED Program 3

CSAR Training 3

Caution: Wet Weather Driving Hazards

4

Working Safely on Weekends 4

Inside This Issue

December 23-24, 30-31, 2010 Winter Holiday

January 3. 2011 Winter Quarter Begins

January 7, 2011 UCLC Information Session

January 17, 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

February 3, 2011 Chinese New Year

February 21, 2011 Presidents’ Day Holiday

March 14, 2011 Campus Assault Resources & Education

March 25 , 2011 Cesar Chavez Holiday

“The variety of topics that were offered. The most important one for me was the one about taking care of

myself and valuing myself and my work at UCI. “

“ Offer more training programs like this one!”

“How to take care and

protect ourselves while working. How to handle the

different chemicals and prevent accidents.”

1st Place ($300 Ergo Aid)

Amy Ruth Pharmaceutical Sciences

2nd Place ($100 Ergo Aid)

Archie Carter Library

3rd Place ($100 Ergo Aid)

Diane Ysais Psychiatry & Human Behavior

EH&S recently recognized and rewarded the following people for engaging in activities and behavior that foster a safe work environment.

UC Ready Congratulates ICS! Congratulations to the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences for being the first school at UCI to have each department complete a UC Ready Business Continuity Plan!

UC Ready is an on-line planning tool for departments to improve resilience and the ability to return to normal operations quickly following interruptions due to emergency or disaster related events.

The Emergency Management and Business Continuity division of the UCI Police Department would like to thank ICS Assistant Dean Annette Luckow for her stewardship of this initiative, and all the ICS department managers for their hard work and dedication in developing these plans to improve the campus overall disaster readiness.

As an appreciation for ICS of their collaborative efforts, the following individuals were awarded $45 EH&S Safety Dollars :

Safety Act Rewards Facilities Management Raphael Feliciano

Safe Act: Contributed to the zero injuries result for FM in a 30 day period.

Congratulations to the following work units for the completion of Safety On Site Level 3! Each work unit was awarded Starbucks gift cards and a SOS item for their completion of the Hazard Assessment & Corrections Tool as well as EH&S required safety training and work unit specific training. For more information on the SOS program, visit: www.ehs.uci.edu/programs/iipp/.

Rychnovsky Lab – Department of Chemistry Weinberger Lab – Department of Neurobiology & Behavior Stark Lab - Department of Neurobiology & Behavior Keyak Lab - Department of Orthopedic Surgery

Thank You to our Safety Partners - Winter 2010

Safety Matters - Winner of the 2010 Campus Health & Safety Management Association Award of Excellence Page 2

Congratulations to our Ergo Champions who won Ergo

Aid Funds for their departments!

Rewards

Department: Primary Contact Person:

Completion Date:

Business Office Cassandra Jue Low 09/24/2010

Dean's Office DeeDee Nunez 11/03/2010

Department of Computer Science Mark Cartnal 10/07/2010

Department of Statistics Rosemary Busta 10/07/2010

Facility Management (ICS) Jim Doyle 08/17/2010

Informatics Marty Beach 10/18/2010

Personnel Office, Dean's Office Peggy Munhall 11/01/2010

Student Affairs Office Gina Anzivino

06/30/2010

New! Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Program

Issue 31 Page 3

Campus Search and Rescue (C-SAR) completed Training Series #12 on December 2, 2010 when 26 new team members successfully triaged and rescued ‘victims’ trapped in a mock disaster staged in Krieger Hall.

C-SAR is a volunteer group of 200 staff and faculty members who have received specialized training in disaster preparedness, fire and hazardous materials safety, disaster medical operations, light search and rescue, active shooter response and other topics. Sponsored on campus by UCI Police Department, it is based on the national Citizen Corps Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) model and complements the CERT programs of Irvine, Newport Beach and other surrounding areas.

The program was started in early 2004 and continues to grow. Training series consisting of approximately 18 hours of classroom instruction are offered annually in the fall. At the completion of the training C-SAR team members have improved their ability to prepare for, respond to and recover from potential disaster situations and provide assistance to their families, UCI colleagues and in their neighborhoods.

For more information, see: http://www.police.uci.edu/em/csar/index.htm. For information on CERT programs in your neighborhoods, see: http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/.

You look over and see someone suddenly collapse, what do you do? Sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for more than 325,000 deaths each year. Sudden cardiac arrest is the sudden, unexpected loss of heart function, breathing and consciousness, and can strike anyone of any age, gender, race, and health status. When in cardiac arrest, every second counts. For every minute that passes without CPR and defibrillation, the chances of survival decreases by 7-10%.

EH&S is taking a proactive stance on increasing this survival rate through its Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Program. An AED is used to administer an electric shock to a person who is in cardiac arrest. AEDs are designed to allow non-medical personnel to save lives. Two pads, connected to the AED, are placed on the patient's chest. A computer inside the AED analyzes the patient's heart rhythm and determines if a shock is required to save the victim. If a shock is required, the AED uses voice instructions to guide the user through saving the person's life. Located throughout the campus are 27 AED units. This includes all campus police units and many of the campus’s high traffic venues. The ARC offers CPR/AED certification classes to all UCI staff and students.

If you would like to find out more information about the AED program or about purchasing an AED unit for your department please go to the EH&S website at www.ehs.uci.edu or contact EH&S at 949-824-6200.

For information on CPR/AED certification classes please go to www.campusrec.uci.edu .

Search team evaluating a room prior to entering CSAR Training Series #12 Class Photo

Campus Search and Rescue Gains 26 New Team Members

Winter 2010

4600 Health Sciences Road Irvine, CA 92697-2725 Building 41 on UCI campus map Phone: 949-824-6200 Fax: 949-824-8539 http://www.ehs.uci.edu

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Caution! Wet Weather Driving Hazards Environmental Health & Safety reminds the campus community that California’s winter rainy season is here and normally lasts through March.

The treacherous combination of rain, fog and early darkness is responsible for thousands of car accidents each year. Be aware that driving in the rain or when roads are wet is more dangerous than in dry conditions as stopping distances can increase as much as three times.

Follow basic safety guidelines for driving in wet weather conditions: drive at slower speeds, brake sooner and with less force, increase following distance from vehicle ahead, and turn on lights when turning on windshield wipers. These and other safety guidelines may take a bit more time to reach a destination, but the few minutes spent being safe are well worth it.

Working Weekends - Hazards Don’t Take the Weekend Off Different people have different reasons and motivations for working on weekends. In research, the expectation is to be productive and research is rarely just 9-5. Facilities Management is often expected to work around regular hours, especially for emergency repairs and for activities which produce noise, dust or other disturbances. Theatrical productions traditionally are presented on weekend nights and matinees, and often go 24/7 leading up to opening night. Anyone visiting campus on weekends can’t fail to notice more and more activities going on.

Perhaps we should stop to consider once, what are the hazards of working on the weekend?

Generally, almost all of the same risks we face during the week are again present on weekends. Plus we have the added risk of fewer people around to help in an emergency, and fewer support personnel available to respond as quickly as during the regular work week.

If you work weekends, you should be mindful of your environment and bring a renewed awareness of the hazards in your work place. When something goes amiss, fortune often provides people nearby who have experience. Some people instinctively, or through past experience, know what do to when something goes wrong. On the weekend, you might be that person. Fortune favors the prepared.

Be sure to review emergency procedures applicable to your work area in light of weekend staffing and response capabilities. The UCI Emergency Procedures Blue Flip Chart (http://www.police.uci.edu/em/eprepman/flipchart.html) is worth a refresher for anyone working on the weekends. At a very minimum, have an updated phone list of people in your work group who a available. Never work with hazardous materials alone or without a buddy lifeline. Finally, recognize that winter breaks, holidays and evenings are similar to weekends for risks. Don’t forget to notify your supervisor if you will be working these schedules, and obtain information from your building manager on how you can stay warm. For safe escort, contact (949) 824-SAFE from 6 pm to1 am.