Environmental Health and Safety
Safety Tips
With the arrival of spring just around the corner here are some safety tips to remember:
If your location has changed since last spring, make sure you know where the severe weather safe rooms are located. Ask your Department Safety Liaison (DSL) or check the emergency maps located next to entrances and elevators for the location of safe rooms.
Make sure you know how to get from the interior of your office to the hallway should be power be interrupted. The hallways have emergency lighting, but most office do not have such lighting.
If you routinely walk down the sidewalk behind the Administration building on the way to the University Center, it is time to change your route. The sidewalk will be closed for the construction of the UC Addition over the next 18 months. You will need to use the sidewalk under the overhang and then the stairs across from the Cashier’s Office to get to the UC.
If you park behind the Tennis Courts in Lot 15, you will need to walk around the PHE to the front of the UC instead of cutting through the building and across to the UC.
Human Resources
Performance Evaluations
It’s time for supervisors to start thinking about completing performance evaluations on administrative, professional, and classified employees. The Office of Human Resources conducted a training seminar on completing employee evaluations on January 27, 2006 and the notes from that training were distributed via email to all budget authorities.
The completed evaluation and the performance evaluation conference are important elements in providing feedback to our employees on how they are doing and how they can improve their performance for the next evaluation cycle. It is also an important time for setting goals for the next evaluation period. Performance evaluations can also be a key factor in awarding merit increases to employees should those funds be available in the next budget cycle.
Blank evaluation forms are available on the Human Resources website and can either be printed or saved and completed electronically and then printed. Make sure you give one signed original to the employee and send the other signed copy to HR so we can file it in the personnel file.
Annual performance evaluations should be completed by February 28 for the period January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005. If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at ext. 7234.
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Compliance Corner
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Update
Please remember that your ERM risk assessments are due to Audit Services by March 1, 2006. If your supervisor wants to review the assessment prior to submission to our office, please allow time in order to meet the March 1 deadline. Anyone desiring assistance in the ERM process, please contact Kathy Kapka (7114) or Lou Ann Viergever (5644).
Compliance/Ethics Line
Did you know that there are three ways to file a confidential ethics complaint? You can call the hotline (1-800-500-0333), which is answered by a contracted company called The Network, who will email a report to three designated individuals on campus or you can file a report via the web, also handled by The Network, or you can send a letter addressed to Compliance/Ethics at UT Tyler, PO Box 131292, Tyler, TX 75713-1292 which will be handled in-house. You can find more information on these three methods at:
www.uttyler.edu/compliance/EthicsLine.htm
University Police
The University of Texas at Tyler Police Department welcomes three new employees to the agency. They are Officer Nathan Allen, Officer Michael Reynolds, and Guard Alice Tidwell.
Nathan Allen comes from a municipal police agency and has 5 years of law enforcement experience. Michael Reynolds is transferring from the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center at Dallas. Michael previously worked for the U.T. Tyler Police Department, and also has experience in municipal police agencies. We are also very pleased to have Alice Tidwell as our first guard at the Palestine campus. We have already received very positive comments about Alice’s presence at the campus.
We would also like to recognize Officer Ben Kiser for his dedicated service to our country. Officer Kiser serves in the United States Naval Reserves. He was recently ordered to active duty, and will be serving our country in Iraq during 2006. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Ben and his family.
For questions or comments, please send an email to: bizeditor@uttyler.edu
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