Health & Safety Unit Annual Report Fiscal 2013-14 and
Action Items for 2014-15
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People first -- we welcomed the following new members to our team in fiscal 2013-14:
o Jason Spetz is the new Patrol Sergeant in Police, Parking & transportation. Jason has
been with us several years as a Police Officer. Jason replaced Bob Starck who retired
last fiscal year.
o Adam Malean is the new Police Officer who replaced Jason Spetz in his old position.
o David Kile is the new Police Services Associate. David comes to Stout from Coca Cola
and the US Marine Corps. David replaced Debbie Dillon who retired last fiscal year.
o Rochelle Boos is a new Licensed Practical Nurse at Student Health. She comes to us
from Mayo –Red Cedar Clinic in Menomonie.
o Darcy Hover is a new Licensed Practical Nurse at Student Health. She comes to us from
Marshfield Clinic.
o Rebecca Hoeft is the new Chemical Hygiene Officer for Safety & Risk Management.
Rebecca is filling this position part-time, while also working part-time as Chemistry Lab
Manager, where she has been for several years. Rebecca replaces Tracy Glenz who left
Stout to pursue work outside of the safety field.
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The biggest story of the year has been the service excellence that all three of our departments
exhibited. Customer satisfaction is up, service calls are up, injuries are down, and several
major initiatives are in the works – all despite a bitter winter and tight budgets.
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Student Health Services moved closer to 3rd party billing this year. Questions from UW System
staff slowed down our implementation plans for billing by about one year, but we appear on
track for billing this fall, 2014. Also, SHS staff advised the Stout Student Association on health
insurance and “hard waiver” options. SSA then voted to support making health insurance
(with a hard waiver) a mandatory condition of enrollment at Stout. Stout was followed by
Whitewater student government who also voted for this idea. Following the SSA vote,
Chancellor Sorensen’s Cabinet also endorsed the hard waiver idea. Next up will be taking the
issue to the Board of Regents.
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Student Health had 5,535 patient-visits to the clinic this year, a slight decrease from last year.
They also conducted a student satisfaction survey again this year. The overall satisfaction score
for “Great” and “Good” service was a remarkable 95.8%, up from 93% last year! Congrats to all
of SHS on a great job. The main item for improvement in the survey is again the location of the
clinic. That item got the lowest number of positive responses. The future location of the clinic
remains on the capital issues list.
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Two of the three Health & Safety auxiliaries – Student Health and Parking – both ended the
year with a deficit. Health is about $ 160K in the red and Parking about $ 200K in the red. We
have plans to pull both accounts out of deficit – Student Health can return to the black in four to
five years with a combination of fee increases and 3rd party billing. Parking can return to the
black in the same time frame with a combination of debt service retirement and a wider array
of pricing options to stimulate permit sales. Our third auxiliary – Alternative Transportation – is
healthy and fine. We are working closely with SSA on all of our auxiliaries.
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Safety & Risk Management had a great year with the startup of the Safety Incentive Program.
This program is a partnership with the Safety & Workers Compensation Committee. The results
appear to be fantastic in that the number of injuries experienced by the programs’ teams is not
only down… it is ZERO since the start of the program nine months ago! S&RM is also working
with the committee on looking at online safety training software.
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Meanwhile, S&RM teamed up with Physical Plant to manage the water damage claim from the
great flood of June 2013. This water event affected the MSC, Jarvis and Administration. It was
Stout’s largest property loss since the windstorm of 1980.
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The Police, Parking & Transportation Department is as busy as ever. The transportation
program remains hugely successful as student ridership continues to increase. A lot of our
resident students on North Campus use the Stout Route shuttle, and a large number of
international students use the North – South Route through Menomonie. There are also some
signs that faculty and staff ridership may be increasing.
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Campus Police continue to work closely with the Dean of Student Office and the City Police
Department on alcohol and substance abuse issues. Despite one student fatality related to
substance abuse this past year, we remain encouraged that our numbers are better with respect
to drinking behaviors. And while our numbers of substance abuse arrests are not problematic,
we will put attention toward this issue in the years ahead since it appears that prescription drug
abuse is a growing concern, and could complicate our drug use patterns at Stout.
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PP&T also led our effort to replace the campus emergency alert system. We have replaced the
old Flashbrief system with a much more robust one by Rave Communications. The new system
is Stout-branded and is called “Stout Alert.” It is mandatory (cannot opt out) for all campus
email addresses, and has the added feature of letting students, staff and parents opt in for
personal electronic devices and non-Stout email accounts.
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Health & Safety continued to be the campus lead for compliance with Executive Order # 54, the
governor’s mandate on reporting child abuse or neglect. We collaborated with Human
Resources to implement an online training program that is going very well, and which is tracked
by ABC Signup. We also present EO 54 training to all new employees through the New@Stout
program.
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Please see the attached department reports for more information and statistics.
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Health & Safety’s Executive Director, Jim Uhlir, was involved with the following activities this
past year:
o Conferences: Campus Safety, Health & Env. Mgmt Assoc. -- moderated a session on
Laboratory Safety (national); UW Law Days (state); Wisconsin Asbestos Conference; and
UW Safety & Risk Management conference.
o Campus committees: Exec. Order 54 Implementation; Campus-wide Energy Committee;
Chancellors AODA Coalition; Safety & Workers Compensation; Tobacco-free Campus
Implementation; Capital Projects team, First Amendment (Free Speech) Protocol.
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Off-campus: Dunn County Community Health Partnership; Menomonie Robotics Club
(coached a team, refereed a VEX tournament and hosted a regional FLL tournament);
Menomonie Band Boosters; St. Joseph’s Parish Valet Service and church volunteer.
Health & Safety Unit Action Items for 2014-15
 3rd Party Billing Implementation (SHS)
 Health Insurance Initiative for Hard Waiver Mandate (SHS)
 Online safety training modules (S&RM)
 Revitalization of campus Clery Act/ SaVE Act/ Title IX compliance program (PP&T)
 Marketing initiative for the Alternative Transportation program and implementation of new
Parking permits (PP&T)