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Environmental Health & Safety Management System Bi-Weekly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Smyser)
Thu Feb 17 17:21:20 2000
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Project Name: EHSS (for short)
Project Leaders: Rob Smyser, Rocklyn Clarke
Report Date: 2/16/2000
Submitted by: Rob Smyser
URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/ehss/
Accomplishments past period:
- Developed a big picture view of what's in the EHSMS.
- Started contacting vendors.
- Started a Microsoft Project-based WBS.
- To guide the team's thinking in answering the Discovery questions (about
Vision, Requirements, Features, Existing resources on campus, who is
affected, etc.), we prepared an essay format questionnaire, to be filled
out by members of the team.
- Responses received to date were collated into a single system model,
driving a features list and raising further questions.
- We are getting a pretty good handle on the Regulations --> Training -->
Compliance relationships.
Goals for the coming period:
- Start to nail down the materials management / inventory piece. How will
we be able to track material coming on to campus, especially through the
requisitioning process. We'll be looking at chemicals as the largest and
most difficult nut.
- Pursue who is going good work in other academic sectors, and what are
they doing.
Issues:
- There may be intractable difficulties in changing the procurement process
to require entering a unique identifier (the Chemical Abstract System or
CAS number) when ordering.
- The current system for managing chemicals is highly decentralized in
terms of control and administration. Radiation is highly centralized.
There may be a collision of world-views as these try to merge into a single
system.
Key Learnings:
- There is a key role for the Roles Database to help manage the status of
people's authorizations in the Hazards/Training/Compliance space. The
issue of who has been trained to do what and how recently is a big one for
the departments and central offices. Roles seems to be an engine for
managing people, functions and qualifiers (materials, devices), with
expiration dates attached to the authorizations.
Team Dynamics:
Good relationships among team members. Members set action items or goals
for themselves and volunteer to meet them.
Additional Comments:
none
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Rob Smyser Business Liaison Team, MIT Information Systems, N42-040
smyser@mit.edu 617.253.1358 http://web.mit.edu/blt
