Rocky Mountain Center for
Occupational and Environmental Health
Advisory Board Meeting Agenda
May 10, 2024
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Open & Public Meetings Act
III. Minutes Approval [01 handout]
IV. Announcements
a. Status of OEH Free-Standing Division
b. Tuition Benefit Changes
c. Funding for OHS Baccalaureate Programs [02 handout]
d. RMCOEH Scholarship Recipients [03 handout]
e. Moser Textbooks
f. Newsletter
g. New Hires:
Industrial Hygiene Occupational Injury Prevention Occupational Health Psychology Administrative Team Mining Safety Pathways Ergonomics & Safety Continuing Education Occupational Health Nursing
Nancy Daher, PhD Erika Pliner, PhD
Hongwei Zhao, ScD Ryan Olson, PhD
Jordyn Leslie, PhD Ben Abbey,
Muridi Barow, Erika Chubac Patrick James, CSP Tori Joy Scott Uhlrich, PhD Serena Woodhouse Michael Humphrey, DNP
V. RMCOEH Advisory Board Membership [04 handout]
VI. RMCOEH Award of Excellence in Workplace Safety and Health Vote
a. Ray Pickup
VII. Systems, Industrial, and Management Engineering (SIME) Program [05 handout] Nicole Batty and Todd Easton
VIII. Firefighter Cancer Screening [06 handout] Matt Thiese, Brad Wardle and Jack Tidrow
IX. Marketing Bubba Brown, Charlie Schuknecht and Ben Abbey
a. General Marketing [07 handout]
b. High School Pathways
X. Tuition Model Changes & Student Headcount Joe Allen
a. Utah needs/impact
b. Regional States needs/impact
XI. Legislation
XII. Weber State U & U Utah Programs Progress
a. Weber State University James Taylor
b. University of Utah AVP for Research Dr. Rachel Hess
c. Mining Safety [08 handout] Charles Kocsis
i. Mining Safety graduates credited to Mining Engineering, College of Science
d. Occupational Health Psychology [09 handout] Joe Allen
e. Occupational Health Nursing Jodi Waddoups
f. Pathways from High School (see WSU-UU progress report) Tori Joy
g. BS-OSH Dan Hair and Matthew Hughes
h. CE: Strategic Plan & Spanish-Speaking Worker Training Videos Beth Rhoades
XIII. RMCOEH Budget [10 handout] Heidi Slack
XIV. RMCOEH draft Impact Measures [11 handout] Matt Thiese
XV. Center Director Report Kurt Hegmann
a. Accolades [12 handout]
b. ORG Chart [13 handout]
c. Draft Legislative reports: (1) SB159; (2) Presidents' reports; (3) Education Interim [14 handout]
d. RMCOEH Impact Report
e. RMCOEH Curtis Bramble Research Endowment
XVI. RMCOEH Advisory Board Executive Committee Report
Next Meeting: Fall 2024
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