Health and Safety
Safety Committee
It is the goal of California State University Monterey Bay to provide a safe and healthful environment for students, employees and visitors. The University, through this Safety Committee, supports that goal by addressing safety concerns and providing communication between interested parties.
The Committee meets as often as necessary to fulfill its obligations, but not less than once per semester. Meeting minutes are available for review by all employees. If employees who are not committee members would like to attend a meeting, please email safety@csumb.edu for more information.
Committee actions include assessing safety information and recommending corrective actions to faculty, staff, students or campus administration.
Authority
The Safety Committee derives its authority from:
- An ethical obligation to protect students, visitors and staff.
- The obligation of the University to provide a safe and healthful workplace (OSHA General Duty Clause).
- The obligation of the University to provide an illness and injury prevention program including a safety communications system and procedures for correcting unsafe/unhealthy conditions (Labor Code Section 6401.7 and California Code of Regulations, Title 8, Section 3203).
- CSU Executive Order 1039 California State University Occupational Health and Safety Policy.
Objectives
- Maintain a campus community that is a safe and healthy environment for students, faculty, staff, affiliates and visitors.
- Provide a forum for review of safety and health concerns, major incidents, and recommendations for improvement and corrective actions.
- Increase campus awareness of safety and health issues and programs.
- Evaluate campus public safety programs, identify gaps, and make recommendations for change or adoption programs.
- Promote communication regarding health and safety issues between all relevant campus entities.
- Review information related to safety including: injury and occupational illness reports, accident reports, safety suggestions/alleged hazardous conditions, external regulatory inspections, internal health/safety/environmental inspections.
- The Committee shall meet bi-annually except that additional meetings may be called as deemed necessary by the chair to assure timely consideration of matters before the committee.
- The Committee may request technical assistance as necessary from subject matter experts within the campus community.
- The Committee shall receive administrative support from the University Police Department.
Diana Ballesteros Associate Director, OSU Otter Student Union Andrea Bozant Assistant Director of HR University Corporation, HR Flavia Calusdian UPD IT Systems/ Services Consultant Tech Support Services Anthony Cardinale Lead Painter Unit 6 Teamsters Melanie Chavez Associate Director of Employee & Labor Relations, Compliance & Leave Programs Human Resources mchavez@csumb.edu Vacant Unit 4, Intramural & Rec Sports/ Academic Professionals of California (APC) Monica Conner Office Coordinator for Student Life Unit 7, Dean of Students
mconner@csumb.edu Jenny Duggan College of Sciencce COS Safety Committee Chairperson Robert Escobedo Police Officer Unit 8, University Police Department, rescobedo@csumb.edu Jason Filice Information Technology Consultant Unit 9, Tech Support Services
jfilice@csumb.edu Damian Flores Laborer Unit 5, Shipping & Receiving damflores@csumb.edu Ken Folsom Emergency Manager University Police Department kfolsom@csumb.edu Yvonne Gordon Police Commander University Police Department Ana Hernandez Senior Director of Health and Wellness Services Health & Wellness Services anahernandez1@csumb.edu Anthony Huff Associate Director of Maintenance & Operations Maintenance and Operations ahuff@csumb.edu Vacant Unit 2, Healthcare Support
Matthew Kelly Associate Director of Construction Construction Project Management Ryne Leuzinger Associate Librarian/Lecturer Unit 3, CFA
Pablo Morales Automotive & Equipment Mechanic Unit 6, Automotive pamorales@csumb.edu Mitchell Reid Academic Environmental Health & Safety Specialist Environmental Health, Safety, Risk Management mireid@csumb.edu Linda Schaedle ADA Leaves & Workers' Compensation Analyst Human Resources lschaedle@csumb.edu Andy Sierra Facilities Manager for Corporation & Auxiliary Services Facilities Management asierra@csumb.edu Amy Thomas Director of Environmental Health, Safety, Risk Management & Sustainability Environmental Health, Safety, Risk Management & Sustainability amythomas1@csumb.edu Taylor Wilson Performing Arts Technician Performing Arts/Music Julie Wyrick Director of Campus Planning & Development Planning Design & Construction jwyrick@csumb.edu