Building Operators Association of Colorado

$3.00 www.boac-colorado.org November 2010

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Inside This Issue . . .

Denver—Leed Discussion-New DTC Location with Parking Validation

Colorado Springs—Clay Shoot Workplace Safety is Everyone’s job

VOA

New Members! Larry Marsh

ECOLab Colorado Springs Chapter

Shaun Bristow EnMax

Denver Chapter

Mary Alexander Foster Electric Group

Colorado Springs Chapter

Patrick Wing CBRE

Denver Chapter

Brian Hussey Sr. Cushman & Wakefield

Denver Chapter

Javier Toro Cushman & Wakefield

Denver Chapter

Mike Turzanski Cushman & Wakefield

Denver Chapter

John Morris Gold Label Door Denver Chapter

Renewing Member Sandy Kisler

AIS Denver Chapter

BOAC New Fax # 1-800-316-1896

Our Phone is still the same—303-374-8888

Topic: Plaza Tower One, LEED EB Gold Building with an Energy Star Rating of 95 Pat Gorham, CBRE

Where: Plaza Tower One 6400 S Fiddlers Green Circle Greenwood Village PARKING VALIDATION When: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 Check in 11:00 am

Cost: $20.00/members $25.00/non-members

RSVP: November 12, 2010 5:00 pm.

Reservations Via Phone Only This Month 303-374-8888

Denver Chapter Monthly Meeting

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November - Red Rocks Community College December - No Meeting this Month

January - HOT/SHOT Infrared Inspections February - Air Filter Solutions

March - Cooling Tower Solutions April - Preferred Painting

May - Mathias Lock and Key June - Frontier Mechanical

July - Haynes Mechanical August - Rocky Mountain Mechanical

Plaza Tower One a Case Study---discussion on energy saving measures, successes, failures, past, present and future considera-tions for further energy saving measures.

Patrick Gorham LEED AP, SMA, Chief

Engineer with CB Richard Ellis Technical

Services, Responsibilities for Plaza Tower

One and Crossroads One. Patrick has 30+

years of experience in the building operations

industry for LaSalle Partners, Radisson

Hotels, Mile High Properties, and CB Richard

Ellis. He has worked at several properties

including Independence Plaza, Radisson

Hotel Denver (Sheridan Hotel), Anaconda

Tower (Qwest Tower), Arco Tower (MCI),

1515 Arapahoe, NationsBank Plaza

(Charlotte, North Carolina) and others. Pat is

part of CBRE’s Green Committee specifically

overseeing Utility Rebate Programs.

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Colorado Springs Chapter Monthly Meeting

• Where: Rocky Mountain Roosters (Attached Map)

• When: Friday November 19th

• Sign-in will be at 7:00 AM sharp.

There will be a Morning Hunt and Afternoon Hunt, with the morning

hunters shooting sporting clays in the afternoon and the morning sporting clay shooters hunting in the afternoon.

• Your $ 185.00 Charitable Donation will include

• Continental Breakfast • Pheasant, Quail and Chucker Guided Hunt • Guides and dogs are provided • Please let us know if you would like to provide your own dogs. • A Orange Hat is provided • Catered Lunch • Social hour, prizes and raffles will follow lunch • Sporting Clay Shoot (50 Clays) • All Reservations with payments must be in no later than November 12th, with a limit of 120 Hunters. • For more information or questions call:

• Joel Copley (719) 277-7902

• Paul Ritter (719) 447-0790 or (719)499-3498 • You may bring your own dog (s) if you wish.

• You'll need 200 rounds of 7 ~ shot max shells .

• Shooting Glasses and Ear Protection are required

9th Annual BOAC & Colorado Ducks Unlimited Charity

Sporting Clays Shoot and Bird Hunt

See next page for pictures of raffle!

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IF you have trouble logging into the web site or need help

navigating it, please contact me.

I can reset your log in/password. We can also set up a short tutorial session if

you’d like. Contact me at admin@boac-colorado.org or at

303-374-8888

Back by popular demand, the after holiday party will be at the Lucy Strike Lanes. More details to follow in next months

After Holiday Party

newsletter. Currently the committee is on the look out for companies to sponsor this night of fun. If you are interested in sponsoring the party, contact Kim Lewis at kim.lewis@hotshotir.com or at 303-232-0900.

Save the Date—January 14th, 2011

Mountain Chapter Monthly Meeting

No Information Available at this Time!

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Denver Members—Please Help BOAC Help You!

Give us your ideas on seminars, tours and presentations that interest you and the BOAC community. Please be specific in the topics you would like to be included in the following ideas as well as any contact information for potential speakers. Please fax to 800-316-1896 or email to mike@cwcolo.com

Indoor Air Quality-

Energy Star Certification-

Window Cleaning Powered Platforms, Davit Arms, Safety & Certification-

Denver H2O Department Treatment Plant Tour-

OSHA General Industry-

Denver Fire Department Hazmat/other life training or fire inspections-

Lubricants: proper application, types & analysis-

Electrical-

Mechanical-

Other Ideas (BE SPECIFIC)-

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Prevent Injuries: Workplace Safety is Everyone’s job Alan D. Quilley Posted 8-10-09

The challenge of managing the aspects of occupational health and safety (OH&S) in the workplace can often time feel overwhelming. There are many legal, moral and financial reasons for you to pay attention to OH&S obligations. With all of these challenges, it's important not to waste time, money or place ef-forts on things that simply don't work. In terms of successfully managing OH&S issues, the following Top 10 list includes some of the common errors that organizations make. 1. Celebrate the lack of injuries and not the existence of safety - It's a huge mistake to focus on the lack of injuries as the measure of safety performance. I've met many people who can tell me of an unnoticed situation when they've taken a terrible risk on the job-even though their well-being was at stake. Of course, companies should be happy when nobody gets hurt over an extended period of time, but it doesn't mean that you're "safe." And safety can't be defined as a lack of accidents. Safety is created by what we do-not what we avoid. Safety celebrations should also be shared with those people who have helped make your workplace safe, and not those who have just been lucky! 2. Do safety to our employees and not with them - Rules imposed by others usually don't get needed "buy-in" to actually change behavior. It makes more sense to involve employees in the process of establishing safe behaviors and rules that apply in the workplace. This will lead to increased compliance. Challenging groups of employees to set and review standards of performance involves them in the essentials of safety. 3. Do safety for the government - In the early stages of developing a safety culture, companies can make the mistake of being "reluctant compliers." They're doing safety because the government is forcing them to do it. The value of manag-ing safety is beneficial to a company's bottom line productivity and performance. True performance is all about doing safety to achieve added value. Safety is also about getting everyone home every night! It's important to remain in compliance with the applicable OH&S related laws, but don't do safety for the government-make your work safe and make it legal. Your company will thrive financially because of it. 4. Ignore the importance of the proper tools, equipment, materials and workspace - The historic myth that unsafe behavior causes 88 percent of experienced incidents is simply not true. Unsafe behaviors are involved in all of the incidents that companies experience. The other part of the formula, which is often ignored by believing in this myth, is that unsafe conditions are also always pre-sent. You need to focus efforts on both safe behaviors’ and safe conditions (i.e. tools, equipment, mate-rials and work environment). If you only supply broken tools to people, don't be surprised when they get hurt. Good tools and equipment increase the chances that workers will do their work and not take un-necessary risks. 5. Ignore the culture of unsafe behavior - Not making safe behavior personal and not holding everyone accountable for making it safe at work is a huge mistake. Allowing employees to continue unsafe behavior is often disastrous. Not unlike playing team sports, it's crucial to take the opportunity and coach our fellow employees who aren't working safely. Again, we want all workers to go home safely at the end of a shift. 6. Miscalculate the power of groups actively caring about each other - Inviting co-workers to provide feedback and coaching when they see an unsafe act encourages the team approach to safety. Unless invited, your co-workers may feel reluctant to bring mistakes to the at-tention of management for fear of a poor reaction. We're in this together, so why not open up the discus-sion and invite everyone to overcome the challenges and work more safely.

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7. Deliver safety programs to passive employees - I'm not sure what happened to make us believe that we could deliver safety to employees like pizza. The sooner that all workers are held accountable for safe production and not just production with safety added on-the better off we'll be. Challenging employees to come up with ways to work more safely is a well-documented, sure-fire way to increase safety performance. 8. Measure results and not the activities that create safety. Companies that define safety activities for all staff, including the CEO, are safer organizations - Demand that the measurement of safety involves tasks, such as investigations, hazard assessments, inspections and attending meetings. This is what gets things done. Not applying these measures, how-ever, ensures that safety activities will take a back seat to production every time. 9. Manage OH&S differently than you manage other business parts - Why would profitable and successful companies with a clear record of managing success implement a safety program that doesn't exactly replicate why they're successful in the first place? Manage safety ex-actly like the business itself to achieve similar results. There are too many organizations that manage safety differently than the business to the peril of their safety results. Workers and the management team are motivated to drive production results. So, why would you settle for anything less when it involves safety? Far too often, companies are very positive and proactive when it comes to production activity. At the same time, however, they do the opposite by providing only negative safety reinforcement. As a condi-tion of employment, safety is commonly used as a threat. This is true, but so is being on time and doing your job. In employee orientation sessions, it's a mistake to make negative consequences the key mes-sage. Obviously, you can't ignore unsafe behaviors, but stop making safety feel like a negative thing. There's nothing negative about doing work with a focus on safe production. 10. Hold safety meetings that everyone wants to avoid - I've spoken to thousands of employees in my career about the functionality of the safety meetings they attend. Overwhelmingly, people tell me they don't like what goes on in these meetings very much. The natural question is: "Why are we attending a meeting and not liking what's going on?" The answer is to simply fix the meetings. At your next safety meeting, stand up and tell folks you'd like to discuss how to make the meetings better in the future. Set a goal of not sitting silently at a safety meeting, which isn't addressing your needs. Just say no to unsuccessful safety meetings! Well, there you have it. You now have some ideas that will help improve your safety culture. This Top 10 list will get you thinking about needed change. The key is to own the safety process, take part in creating it, as well as stand up and be counted. Everyone must get involved and stop doing the things that ultimately lead to failure and costly injuries on the job. Safety matters, especially to the people you work with every day.

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President Mitch Wibbels 719-491-7088

Vice President Paul Ritter

719-473-8200

Chapter Secretary John Darnielle 719-650-0894

Chapter Treasurer Joel Copley

719-599-3900

Kevin Donnley 719-757-3020

Colorado Springs Board Chair Kim Lewis 303-232-0090

Vice Chair Billy Bratton 303-781-5454

State Secretary Mary McAllister 303-573-9000

State Treasurer Michael Benoit 303-573-9000

State Contractor Heather Gorham admin@boac-colorado.org

303-374-8888

Committee Member Harry Gorham 303-460-9264

State Board

President Darren Warner 970-748-6200

Vice President

Chapter Secretary Ryan Briere 303-917-6389

Chapter Treasurer Tom Schlader 970-476-2971

Mountain Board Denver Board

President Brian Remington 303-292-5488

Vice President Mike Walker

303-221-4644

Chapter Secretary Wayne Summers 303-397-8444

Chapter Treasurer Jim Wessels

303-820-2108

BOAC Community Service

All 4 students expressed their delight and have volunteered for next year's conference already. I trust that you will be in contact once next year’s dates have been finalized.

Attached is a picture from day one with Alejandra and Evelin. Please let me know if you’d like more; unfortunately I didn’t get any pictures of you and the boys on day two. For my program records and monthly reporting, can you tell me how much money was raised for Meals on Wheels as a result of the Skills Olympics?

All the best,

TANESHA M. BELL

Volunteers of America, Project Manager Community Connect Program @ Manual High School

Email to Harry Gorham

There are NEVER-ending painting or other work projects at Volunteers of

America. Please contact Harry Gorham at 303-460-9264 or Pat

Gorham at 303-804-4703 to schedule a work day for Volunteers of America—anytime is the right time to volunteer!

BOAC P.O. Box 2559 Denver, CO 80201

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