Congrats Michael!
Please join me in congratulating Michael Butts on his new position with Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital in charge of their Life Safety Department. While Michael’s leadership and contributions to Safety and Risk Management and VCU will be sorely missed, this is a wonderful opportunity for Michael as he takes the next step in his career. I’d […]
Congrats Michael Butts!
Please join me in congratulating Michael Butts on obtaining his Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from the VCU Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. Congratulations on your outstanding achievement, Michael!
Belated congratulations to Kurt!
Congratulations to Kurt Wehrmann on his well deserved promotion to Senior Fire Safety Technician in November 2018. Kurt‘s new role includes: Coordinating the schedule for inspections and testing on the Monroe Park Campus Conducting fire extinguisher training for employees and students Community outreach events on the MPC Coordinating contractor requests for fire system shutdowns Oversight of […]
Congrats to Luke Christopher Butts
Please join me in offering a belated congratulations to Michael Butts and his family on the arrival of Luke Christopher Butts on Monday, January 14th. I’m sure Michael has been enjoying the sleepless nights and would welcome your comments on his sleeplessness. Welcome to the world little Luke!
Congrats to Jon!
Jonathan Brewer recently earned his Google Cloud Certified designation. This designation means he’s demonstrated the necessary skills to leverage Google Cloud technology in a way that can transform businesses and meaningfully impact the people and customers they serve by designing, developing, managing and administering application infrastructure and data solutions on Google Cloud Technology. And while I […]
SRM Work Rules
The following represents the work rules that we’ve been discussing for the department. As you read them, please keep in mind that nothing here changes or modifies VCU policy. Additionally, it is ultimately the need of our customers that determines the work schedule. Therefore, if the need changes, then any approvals may change as well. […]
Congrats to the Newest CIH!!!
Please join me in congratulating Valerie Pegues on recently passing her exam by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. As a Certified Industrial Hygienist, Valerie has reached a career milestone that is by all accounts one of the hardest and most involved in our career field. I’m immensely proud of this great accomplishment on her […]
Welcome Kyle Stone
Please join me in welcoming Kyle Stone as our new occupational safety specialist. After an interesting series of academic adventures pursuing a degree in Biology, Kyle eventually settled on occupational safety as a potential career field. He graduated from Old Dominion University with a bachelors of Environmental Health and a minor in Occupational safety. During his junior year […]
Employee Engagement Survey
The results are out for the employee engagement survey and I’m happy to find that we’re all more engaged … or at least the 29 of us that responded to the survey are. Please see the results below: As a metric we went up in all but three areas. Those that I’m happiest with are that […]
VCU Staff Senate Awards for Excellence is OPEN!
The Staff Senate is launching the first Excellence Awards for Staff only. It has been a Staff Senate labor of love for many years, and is finally coming to fruition thanks to the courageous leadership, hard work and vision of Ken Hudgins and the Staff Senate Awards and Recognition Committee. Please go to the following: https://staffsenate.vcu.edu/awards/ […]