The group felt that it was important to get the attention of the embarking science party. We therefore agreed on the desirability of a hard hitting, professional quality video emphasizing the need for safety awareness to show to scientists during the first day's safety briefing. We concluded that it should be NO LONGER than 15 min. and be designed to grab their attention. KEN ROBERTSON volunteered to get us a copy of the Dutch Film that Dolly reported on having seen. The following topics should be among those covered:
AWARENESS, emergency egress, falls overboard, the use of EBA's. The Safety Committee will screen this video, and if it seems directly applicable, contact NSF and the owners about negotiating (probably will require a fee) the right to use it. If it proves not suitable, the committee will embark an developing a proposal to NSF for producing such a video which does meet our requirements.
A very good suggestion was made that at the time of the initial safety briefing, individualized Watch Quarter and Station Bills be handed out. Some institutions are doing this now, and with word processing, they could be easily developed.
With regard to crew training, it was broadly accepted that selected crew members should have EMT, or some similar training. There is a real risk of loosing the people after spending the $$$ and time to get them trained, which might be minimized by selection of who goes, but the risk should probably be accepted anyway. Most institutions pay some or all of the costs of license upgrade training. Some paid the fees only, requiring the crew to go on their own time. Others kept the crew in a paid status during training.
It was agreed that the UNOLS office would try to develop an accident (and "close call") reporting system using a form on the "Web". It was suggested that we should probably not report the "cause" of the accident is such a wide open forum. We agreed to use the OSHA definition of reportable injuries, and that we would report the "exposure" to the UNOLS office on a quarterly basis. (Joe's personal observation: OSHA only requires annual reporting.) Joe will work the UNOLS office to help this effort.