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Students Complete Annual CTI Safety Walk

Mrs. Joan McMahon, CTI School Nurse and Safety Coordinator (above) with CTI students during the annual safety walk.

MARCH 19, 2008

Annual Safety Walk completed at CTI. The annual safety walk is conducted at CTI by the CTI Safety Advisory Committee.

CTI STUDENTS USE SAFETY CHECKLISTS TO REVIEW AREAS OF CONCERN IN THE WORK AREAS.

The creation of Mrs. Joan McMahon, our School Nurse, who has coordinated the annual inspections since 1995. Typically in December of each year, an initial safety walk is conducted. Student representatives from each trade technology volunteers to assist in the safety inspections.

The initial inspections look at a variety of safety issues in the classrooms, labs and in the entire building. These inspections emphasize the importance of having a safety knowledge and training in the trade technologies. In March of each year, there is a follow up to go back and review the initial write ups and see how they have been corrected.

The safety advisory committee’s membership consist of not only student representatives, but also local business and industry partners, from IBM, to local and county environmental engineers, department of labor supervisors, representatives of the Culinary Institute of America, Dutchess County Emergency Response supervisors, and the Pawling Corp., and several other local partners.

This year, Ms. Terry Harding, Assistant Area Director, OHSA, and Mr. Gregory Thomas, Compliance Safety and Health Officer/Chemical Engineer, attended the follow-up safety walk on March 19, 2008. The annual program ends with a breakfast honoring the student’s hard work in conducting the necessary follow-up to safety write-ups. Our sincere thanks to Mrs. McMahon and to all the participating students and our industry and business partners.

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