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Injury Prevention Plan

  • Prioritizing, creating, and reviewing specific safety policies.
  • Reviewing and making recommendations for training, equipment and other improvements to reduce injury potential and meet regulatory standards
  • Bringing safety and health issues with multi-department impact for committee review
  • Reviewing injury/illness data and accident investigations
  • Reviewing and participating in safety audits
  • Actively participating on the committee to promote safety and health in each department and throughout the campus

UNO Safety Committee

The list of members is alphabetized by the building they represent.

Campus Safety Committee Membership 2022-2023

Building Member Email Phone
Allwine Hall Paul Davis pdavis@unomaha.edu 402.554.3379
Arts & Sciences Hall Joe Price jprice@unomaha.edu 402.554.4484
Baxter Michael Smith mikesmith@baxterarena.com 402.554.6211
CEC Jason Jones jasonjones@unomaha.edu 402.554.5965
CPACS Sojin jang sojinjang@unomaha.edu 402.650.4145
Criss Library Marc Gordon mgordon@unomaha.edu 402.554.2217
Durham Science Center Drew Maurine dmaurine@unomaha.edu 402.554.2654
Eppley Administration Building Rich Murch-Shafer rmurchshafer@unomaha.edu 402.554.3539
H&K, Biomechanics Stacy Hartwig shartwig@unomaha.edu 402.554.3187
Kayser Hall, Annex 16, CUP Dave Meradith dmeradith@unomaha.edu 402.554.3736
Mammel Hall Dave Nielsen davidnielsen@unomaha.edu 402.554.2649
MBSC Jeff Drietz jdrietz@unomaha.edu 402.554.3678
PKI (Engineering) Carlos Francis jfrancis@unl.edu 402.554.2041
Peter Hilsabeck philsabeck2@unl.edu 402.472.9336
Janice Fink janicefink@unomaha.edu 402.554.4901
Robin Gandhi rgandhi@unomaha.edu 402.554.3363
Sapp Fieldhouse Ethan Anderson ethananderson@unomaha.edu 402.554.2695
Scott Housing Adam Wick awick@scottcampus.com 402.778.6541
Mike Winegar mwinegar@scottcampus.com 402.415.6578
Strauss Performing Arts Center Jesse McBee jmcbee@unomaha.edu 402.554.3411
Thompson Alumni Center Steven Summers sksummers@unomaha.edu 402.554.3368
University/Maverick Village Kevin Hovendick klhovendick@unomaha.edu 402.554.6607
Weber Fine Arts Steven Williams steven_williams@unomaha.edu 402.554.2721

Ex Officio Members

Member Title
Patrick Wheeler EHS Program Director, UNO
Patrick Wortmann EHS Executive Director, UNMC
Jerry Baggett Deputy Chief of Police
Trevor O'Brien Police Captain
Ryan Duden Safety Specialist UNO
Shannon Tedesco Fire Safety Officer
Diane Mack Director, Emergency Management UNO/UNMC
Austin Brake Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
Rachael Jensen Exec. Dir, SA & Hardship Resiliency Srvc

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