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November 2019

CAHNRS Operations

QUICK OVERVIEW:

Facilities & Capital Projects

What is Required to Begin a Project on the

Pullman Campus?

Save your time and effort! Before getting estimates for

services, or talking with an outside vendor about pro-

ject options, please involve WSU Facilities Services.

(FYI… contacting a vendor may disqualify them.)

Submit a Work Request to WSU Facilities Services

using MyFacilities.

Have questions where to start? Contact us.

See WSU Facilities Capital Project Timelines &

Steps for more information.

If you choose to move forward once you have re-

ceived a conceptual budget estimate, remember 100%

funding must be in a WSU account.

CIT Notes CAHNRS IT staffing changes:

Jim Buscher has retired after

many years at WSU.

Saurabh Jaiswal joined the

team as our new

Applications Developer

Ed Faulkner is now working with

CIT supporting videoconferencing and

technology statewide.

Just a reminder that the quickest way

to get assistance from CIT is to

submit a ticket.

Windows 7 will be at the end of life on January 15, 2020.

Now is the time to plan so that you aren’t in a bind when

the time arrives.

June 15-18, 2020, CIT is hosting the 2020 National Exten-

sion Technology Community conference IN Pullman.

Risk Management: Are You Covered? WSU property insurance is an opt-in coverage for both buildings and equipment/contents. Departments are

responsible for the premium. Do you have department buildings and equipment that need coverage? Need

to know if you are covered? Give our office a call at 509-335-3460.

CAHNRS Operations works closely with Risk Management Services on Property Insurance issues.

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• WSU must use and pay for Facilities

project management & administrative

fees when certain conditions exist

• Labor & Industries electrical demand

metering requires a minimum of 30-60

days prior to any construction work

• Bargaining Unit Notification may be

required – this is determined by

Facilities Services. Prevailing Wages

and Intent to Pay MUST be addressed/

filed if any labor occurs on WSU property

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Supervisors/Managers:

If you make use of the online training

available through

WSU’s HRS website, Skillsoft, you can

streamline the

record-keeping portion of

your safety training

responsibilities.

https://hrs.wsu.edu/training/

Safety Corner Here are six safety trainings you should be aware of:

• Back Injury and Safety Prevention

• Slips, Trips and Falls

• Emergency and Fire Safety Preparedness

• Portable Fire Extinguisher Safety

• Office Ergonomics

• Asbestos Hazard Awareness (Asbestos Online Training on the Environmental Health and Safety Website)

CAHNRS has specific training and

Agricultural safety training available on

the CAHNRS safety website: https://

operations.cahnrs.wsu.edu/safety/

safety-training/

Check it out.

NOTICE: Due to a browser update, online safety trainings currently don’t work

in Chrome. HRS is working on a solution, but until the issue is resolved,

employees should use another browser (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox)

to take the online safety training.

Accident Reporting Information sheet available

Accident reporting flyers are available,

thanks to Jonathan Lomber, who worked

with EHS to develop them.

Safety bulletin board tool kit to help keep

safety notifications up to date and en-

gaging will soon be available.

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Just a few ways we supported CAHNRS over the past year in Extension, Education & Research ✓ Ongoing Capital Projects and Improvements

✓ Tree Fruit Endowment concept planning/study

✓ VoIP updates around the state — all four R&E Centers converted to VoIP

✓ Competed Amazon Web Services for licensing

✓ First ever R&E Centers and Pullman Farms farm services/

EHS training safety workshop

✓ Land lease facilitation

Cougar Safety

Award... Dixie Kearney, Operations Coor-

dinator for CAHRNS Operations,

was recognized for her contribu-

tions to safety at the WSU Safe-

ty, Health and Security Fair in

October 2018.

Since assuming her role with

CAHNRS, Dixie revitalized the

College safety committee, work-

ing diligently to improve

CAHNRS’ accident prevention

program. Ms. Kearney devel-

oped the CAHNRS safety web-

site, providing many safety re-

sources to CAHNRS personnel,

including safety training content.

Whether a health, safety, or se-

curity concern is identified by a

CAHNRS employee or an out-

side partner, Dixie readily en-

gages to help identify a solution.

Dixie is a tremendous advocate

for safety within the College, on

the Pullman campus and loca-

tions across the State.

We encourage you to share your stories of operational successes with us for future publication. Stories or story ideas can be sent to

Kat Odell at [email protected].

Recycling on Campus

Please take a few moments to check out the changes to what items are currently recyclable,

there have been some changes.

Clean Recycling: Clean metal cans and #1 & #2 Plastic bottles

(No Plastic bags, No Newspaper, No Food, No Glass, No Coffee Cups,

No Pizza Boxes).

Annual “No Overnight Parking” to facilitate

snow removal

Starting November 1, Parking Services will be installing the signs for the annual “no overnight parking” in the lots for the facilitation of snow removal for the winter months. This re-striction will also affect XMT vehicles.

Parking of Exempt (XMT) Cars Football Weekends Parking Services reached out to us to let us know that last football game Saturday, 18 XMT vehicles remained parked In the Wilson Road and Hulbert Hall area. Below are the parking lot restrictions for football weekends. These restrictions apply to exempt vehicles as well as personal vehicles. The blue shaded areas on the map to the right, show special XMT vehicle parking locations. Thursday: Cars must be moved out of all RV lots by 5:30 p.m. The affected lots are as follows:

• Green 5 lot south of Beasley Coliseum

• Yellow 1 lot behind the Indoor Practice Facility

• Yellow 3 lot on Spring Street

• Blue 1 lot east of South Fairway Playfield. Note: residence hall students with Blue 1 permits are allowed to park in the designated area of this lot.

Friday: RV lots are shared use until 5:30 p.m. Cars must be moved out of all RV lots by 5:30 p.m. The affected lots are as follows:

• Green 5 lot south of Beasley Coliseum

• Yellow 1 lot behind the Indoor Practice Facility

• Blue 1 lot east of South Fairway Playfield. Note: residence hall students with Blue 1 permits are allowed to park in the designated area of this lot.

Saturday:

• No parking is available in RV lots all day

• A Cougar Athletic Fund (CAF) permit is required to park in CAF lots

• A general parking permit is required to park in general parking lots

• Blue 1 lot east of South Fairway Playfield. Note: residence hall students with Blue 1 permits are allowed to park in the designated area of this lot.