Environmental Health & Safety
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The Five Colleges of Ohio consortium, in order to mount an organized, multi-campus approach to managing environmental impacts, brought together the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) managers of the five institutions into one central resource team, called the EHS Roundtable. In addition to the advantages of working as a coordinated group, we also provide a regional influence, as the colleges are located in five counties spread broadly across the north-central region of the state. The members of the Roundtable meet regularly to address environmental issues that face the colleges. The EHS Roundtable will work with regulatory consultants to develop up-to-date environmental documents and teaching materials that are tailored for the complex, small-college situation. The EHS Roundtable functions as a regional network of peers to facilitate collaborative EHS policies, procedures, and education projects.
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EHS Roundtable Members
Timothy M. Anderson has been the Environmental Safety Coordinator at The College of Wooster for over seven years and is a member of Wooster's Environmental Task Force. Tim has first hand experience as a Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician. He holds a Fire Science Degree and has attended numerous safety, emergency response, hazardous chemical certification, and environmental seminars, including the Greening of the Campus III conference held at Ball State University. His certifications include: Firefighter, EMT-B, Fire Safety Inspector, Arson Investigator, Haz-Mat Response Technician, Basic Trauma Life Support, High Angle Rescue. Training: Terrorist and Mass Casualty Incidents. Tim also serves as secretary to the Wooster Chamber of Commerce Safety Council.
Barbara Wiehe, Environmental Health
and Safety Manager and Edwin Moore Greenhouse Manager at Ohio Wesleyan
University. Barbara holds a B.S. in Agriculture from Ohio State
University. Barbara has worked at Ohio Wesleyan for 11 years and has been
involved in various safety grants and campus committees, currently serving on
the Sustainability Committee. She has
held an ODA pesticide license for 15 years and specializes in integrated pest
management along with hazardous material management.
Gary Sweeney, Emergency Management and Environmental Safety Specialist at Kenyon College, holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Technology from the Tennessee Technological University. From September 1986 - June 1991, he was Division Head and Chief Instructor of the Fire Support Coordination Division at the Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA. He also taught classes at the CIA and FBI in Washington, DC. He became Kenyon's Coordinator of Health, Safety and Residence Facilities in 2003, and five years later more responsibilities were added to the position to include the role of Department of Athletic's Equipment and Facility Coordinator. His background of assuring the students' health and fire safety led to assuming the newly created position of Emergency Management and Environmental Safety during the spring of 2010.
Steve Gauger is the Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Manager at Denison University accepting the appointment in October 2010. Steve has B.S. degrees in Agriculture Engineering and Civil Engineering. During his 15 years at Purdue University, Steve directed corporate EPA and OSHA compliance, hazardous material management, HAZMAT emergency response, environmental corrective actions, industrial hygiene, loss control, and ergonomic programs.
Garret Moore, Director of Security Safety and Risk Management, has been at Denison University since 1999. He leads campus investigations of safety violations and supervises the Defensive Driving program. Garret's formal education includes a BS in Criminal Justice and a MS in Public Administration from the University of Delaware. He holds OSHA Certification and has been a long-time first responder to hazardous material incidents, fires, and other campus safety situations.
Claudia Ferrini was appointed Environmental Health & Safety/Administrative Manager at Oberlin College in January, 2008. She holds a BS in biology (Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio) and an Associates Degree in Business Management (Cuyahoga Community College, Parma, Ohio). Prior to Oberlin, Claudia worked for 18 years in industry as an EHS professional in both Research and Development and Manufacturing environments for a global manufacturer of graphite products. She brings a wide variety of EHS experience to the Roundtable including employee training, EHS program development and implementation and Emergency Response planning. Claudia is a certified Asbestos Inspector, Red Cross CPR/AED/First Aid Instructor, Confined Space Rescue and Rope Rescue Technician and is an active member of the Lorain County Safety Council. On campus she is a participant in the Facilities Accessible Needs (FAN) Committee, the Drug-Free Campus Compliance Review Committee and is Facilitator of the Campus Safety Committee.
Meeting Schedule
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12 July 2011 |
9:30 am - 1:00 pm |
Denison University |
OEEF Announcement FY 2009: The Five Colleges of Ohio, Inc., A Collaborative College Environmental Management System Initiative, F09G-034, $49,894, Delaware, Knox, Licking, Lorain, and Wayne Counties, Audience: Regulated Community, F-09G-034, Contact: Susan Palmer, palmers@kenyon.edu, 740-427-5234.
Establishes environmental management systems (EMS) at The College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University. Training sessions will help campus teams verify applicable regulations, inventory activities that affect the environment, perform on-site assessments of operations in relation to regulations, prepare gap analyses comparing current status to goals, and engage the college communities through public outreach events and publications. A dissemination workshop will share the results with other colleges in Ohio. Collaborators include the University of Findlay School of Environmental and Emergency Management, The Laboratory Safety Institute, and the University of South Carolina School of the Environment.
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102 Allen House, Kenyon College, Gambier,
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