Explanation
Background: This resolution commends the Transportation Division employees assigned to the North Outpost facility for their continued efforts at fostering a safe work environment and for their extraordinary streak of 492 days without experiencing a lost time job accident. The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, emphasizes safety and has an ongoing commitment to making safety a top priority within the workplace.
Employees assigned to the Transportation Division's North Outpost located at 500 Scherers Court, under the leadership of Michael J. Miller, Street Maintenance Assistant Manager, have made a conscious and conscientious effort to focus on workplace safety as well as the benefits of personal health. This effort produced extraordinary positive results as this work location operated for 492 days (February 17, 2003 - June 24, 2004) without having experienced an accident that resulted in lost time.
This effort and the similar efforts of other employees is acknowledged and commended and should serve as a role model for all City employees, work locations, divisions and departments.
Fiscal Impact: Not calculated; However an absence of lost-time accidents promotes worker well-being, increases productivity, and helps to keep the city's worker's compensation premiums down.
Emergency action is requested to memorialize this accomplishment as soon as possible.
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To commend and applaud the efforts of the employees of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, North Outpost, in accumulating an extraordinary work record by operating for 492 calendar days without experiencing a lost time accident, and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, emphasizes safety within the workplace as a top priority; and
WHEREAS, employees assigned to the Division's North Outpost located at 500 Scherers Court have made a conscious and conscientious effort to focus on workplace safety as well as the benefits of personal health; and
WHEREAS, this effort produced extraordinary positive results as this work location operated for 492 days (February 17, 2003 - June 24, 2004) without having experiencing an accident that resulted in lost time; and
WHEREAS, this effort serves as a role model for all city employees, work locations, divisions and departments; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that this accomplishment is memorialized because good news should be shared and these efforts emulated as soon as possible, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the efforts and attitudes of employees of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, North Outpost, in accumulating an extraordinary work record by having operated for 492 days without experiencing a lost time accident should be and hereby are acknowledged, applauded, and commended.
SECTION 2. That this effort and the similar efforts of other employees should serve as a role model for all city employees, work locations, divisions, and departments.
SECTION 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its adoption and approval by the Mayor or ten days after adoption if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.