Looking back on the Battle in Seattle
Journalist leaves ‘transformative’ gift to classics
UW shines in latest audit study
Sephardic studies hopes for boost from film festival
Collaborative concert has odd coupling
Acclaimed duo set for UW concert
Inventory details UW’s diversity outreach efforts
LEARN Clinic offers evaluations of students
Space Grant Consortium’s move benefits K-12 teachers
Health and Safety Committees named
Elections are over and the members of the 2000/2001 Health and Safety Committees are ready to serve the University community as a forum for employee concerns about health and safety in the workplace for the next two years. They also will also review and evaluate accident investigation reports, health and safety inspections, and health and safety plans.
Last year’s activities involved a return to work policy, special safety training classes for supervisors, an evacuation warden plan for Magnuson Health Sciences Center, variance proposal for eyewash facilities, health and safety plans, better communications between UW service organizations, workstation ergonomics and hospital lift teams.
A list of organizational units and their group associations is available on the EH&S home page at http://www.ehs.washington.edu under “Safety Committees,” or by calling the EH&S office at (206) 543-7388.
The members listed below are your representatives. Call them and your supervisors if you have any health and safety concerns.
Elected Members: Deborah Conley-Staerk (Graduate School), Pam McGrath (Academic Affairs), Erica Meier (Development), Marcy Tufarolo (Computing & Communications), Jane Warner (Attorney General’s Division), Victor Flores (Minority Affairs).
Appointed Members: Jan Herdman (Equal Opportunity Office), Betty Jo Kane (Library Facilities).
Elected Members: Ric Carlson (University Services), Carol Garing (Publications Services), Donald Main (Capitol Projects), Janice McKee (Human Resources), John Salveson (Facilities Services), Li-Chang Wong (Financial Management).
Appointed Members: Henry Deposit (Facilities Services), Lee Fjellanger (UW Police), Sharon Griffin (Capitol Projects), Anne Guthrie (Facilities Services), Greg Landis (University Stores), Bill Tolbert (Financial Services).
Union Rep: Jake O’Connor (Seattle/King County Building and Construction, Trades Council, AFL-CIO).
Elected Members: Herb Johnson (Admissions and Records), Joe Kunkel (Housing and Food Services), Kurt Oglesby (Student Union Custodial).
Appointed Members: Patricia Bonner (Admissions and Records), Maggie Olona (Student Counseling Center), Michael Peterson (Recreational Sports), Lynne Siverson (Housing and Food Services).
Union Rep: Joe Davenport (Washington Federation of State Employees).
Elected Members: Tim Adams (School of Medicine), Randal Beaton (School of Nursing), Jennifer Grant (School of Public Health & Community Medicine), William Howald (School of Pharmacy), Kathy Maher (Harborview Medical Center), Nikki Peters (Health Sciences), Gwen Rikansrud (School of Dentistry), Linda Wiens (UWMC), Melinda Young (Regional Primate Research Center).
Appointed Members: Alec Constabaris (School of Pharmaceutics), Richard Grant (Regional Primate Research Center), Mary Grembowski (School of Social Work), Marcia Knipher (School of Medicine), Rene’ Lucas (School of Public Health and Community Medicine), Bob Perigo (School of Nursing), Howard Schneider (UWMC), Stephanie Steppe (Health Sciences), Tom Wade (School of Dentistry).
Union Rep: Jay Herzmark (Washington Federation of State Employees).
Elected Members: Dorothy Sjasstad (Urban Design and Planning).
Appointed Members: Barbara Masaki (College of Architecture & Urban Planning).
Elected Members: Jody Burns (Natural Sciences), Ann Buscherfeld (Social Sciences), Cheryl Mathisen (Humanities), Fred Nick (Computing, Facilities, & Research), Larry Sommers (Arts).
Appointed Members: Unannounced.
Elected Members: Sarah Amos (ASUWB), Scott Grindy (Finance and Administration), Clay Horton (Library and Media), Kim Metcalfe (Office of Student Affairs), Anne Marie Nacke (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences), Mary Anne Ogle (Nursing), Terry Rauch (Security), Pam Thorburn (Bothell Campus Library).
Appointed Member: William Kelleher (Facilities, Finance & Administration).
Elected Members: Darren Bailey (Safety & Security), Jay Goss (Finance & Administration), Terri Herman (Social Work), Don Higgins (Library), Joe Kaplar (Media), Renee Lynn (Software Systems & Academics), Hugh Smith (Facilities & Operations), Lisa Tice (Counseling), Julie Utterback (Chancellor’s Office), Nan West (Nursing).
Appointed Members: Melody James (Business), Rachel May (Liberal Studies).
Union Rep: Eric Schlytter (Washington Federation of State Employees).
Elected Members: Donald Janssen (Civil and Environmental Engineering), L. Dena Petersen (Electrical Engineering), John Piety (Mechanical Engineering).
Appointed Members: Michael Carette (College of Engineering).
Elected Members: Carl Harrington (Forest Resources), Phillip Hurvitz (Forest Resources), Morris Johnson (Forest Resources), Sally Morgan (Dean’s Office), David Zuckerman (Washington Park Arboretum).
Appointed Members: Art Breitsprecher (Management and Engineering Div), Fred Hoyt (Center for Urban Horticulture), Stanley Humann (Pack Forest), Mark Lewis (Program Operations), Dongsen Xue (Forest Resources).
Elected Members: Ken Adkins (School of Fisheries), Kelley Knickerbocker (Applied Physics Laboratory), Kathleen Newell (Oceanography).
Appointed Members: Anita Whitney (College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences). ¶
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January 27, 2000