2022-12-20 Merit Appeals Board Minutes

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Merit Appeals Board December 20, 2022 MR. LEOPOLDINO: Thank you. Okay. So, Goal number 2 -more success with that. I'll read the goal. Goal number 2 is to implement and enhance health and safety program to include specialized driver and equipment training, facility and site inspections, and injury prevention programs. I am happy to report that our HR manager division head for our Health and Safety Division has presented Danny and I with the first draft of our Job Hazard Assessment Template, which includes a form, which will be used to evaluate types of hazards, job—description of hazards, and PPE required. That's going to be part of a packet that will be developed for each class of work in the County. We're going to start off with our blue-collar employees to include automotive mechanica lot of our blue-collar type work. And so, each of these packets will include a Job Hazard Assessment form, class spec., position descriptions, and then trainings required. And that's going to serve as our foundational packet and then we're going to work from there and build on it. So, this is new for us. So, we're working closely with Health and Safety regularly, in fact, every two weeks we're meeting with them to flesh out this packet. And this is addressing the injury prevention programs part of the injury prevention program, we're trying to develop. Second, is our semi-annual facilities checklist that is current—we're going to be amending that. And the inspection checklist evaluates for electrical components, exits and access, toxic combustible and flammable materials. So, this has to do more with the facilities. So, that's the facility and site inspections. So, that's the second part of it. And then, we have a draft Prevention by Inspection Procedures that we have drafted and we're still working through. But I think we're well on our way to meeting Goal 2 by the end of the fiscal year. We have some—we've added a safety specialist that was added to our budget in the prior fiscal year and we're currently trying to recruit to fill, so that our HR manager—he currently works with our second safety specialist doing training and doing all of these great things with prevention—injury prevention. And so, with the expansion of this division they'll be able to do more and flesh out this program a little bit more. But we've got a great head start and we're looking forward to this program being fleshed out more by the end of the fiscal year. CHR. CABANAS: Okay. Thank you, Waylen. Mr. Ventura, any questions? MR. VENTURA: Yeah. Waylen, for your site inspections manual that you're trying to develop for your (inaudible) that you're trying to develop—are the public works guys helping you with that? `Cause they seem to be really good at inspections and really nitpicking during their inspections. Page 27