Issue 11, Monday 19 August 2002

Caulfield Campus work place safety awards

Call for Nominations for 2002

Caulfield Campus Director Mr John White is pleased to sponsor the Caulfield Campus Workplace Safety Awards to recognise individuals and workgroups at the campus who have excelled in creating and maintaining a safe and healthy workplace consistent with OHSE policies. 

One individual and/or group will be selected each year from nominations received from the campus. Successful nominees will receive a certificate, a notice in Monash Memo and lunch or morning tea.  The Campus Director, the Campus OHSE Consultant and the Manager of OHSE will determine the successful applicant(s).

Criteria

Nominees will be individuals or groups who demonstrate initiative in creating or maintaining a safe and healthy workplace.  Any or all of the following criteria may apply:

• Excellent in-house safety program – broad implementation of safety throughout the workplace
• Active role in safety – strong advocate of health and safety
• Improvement in health and safety – demonstrating significant improvement over previous conditions
• Consistency – maintaining a good safety program over a number of years
• Product/process/practice development and implementation – special effort given to a specific aspect of health and/or safety within the workplace

Nominations 

The Campus Director is seeking nominations for Caulfield Campus Workplace Safety Awards.  complete the nomination form and return it to the Caulfield campus OHSE consultant, Peter Fell at Faculty of Art and Design or fax extn 32985.

Nominations must contain all of the following information:

• Name of the individual or group being nominated;
• Number of people in the group;
• School/Centre/Department of the nominee(s);
• Location where the nominee(s) work;
• A description of why the individual or group is deserving of the award. Include examples and specifics.  Nominees must have shown initiative demonstrated by satisfying at least one of the five criteria listed above.
• List any references or contacts that may be useful if the evaluators need additional information.
• Sign and print your name, school, phone number, email address and date.

Nominations must be received no later than 4 pm on 16 September 2002.

BusEd - making business happen

The City of Glen Eira together with the Caulfield campus is presenting the second seminar of its BusEd program on Thursday 22 August.

BusEd is a joint initiative of the City of Glen Eira and the StreetLife Program, Monash University, and the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development.

The next seminar titled 'Success in Business - How to make it happen', will be presented by Max Coulthard from the Management department at Monash, Max Buontempo, Managing Director of Roma Foods and Andrew Blair, Principal at Mt Eliza Secondary College.  

The aim of BusEd is to link local businesses to the education sector to facilitate initiatives that are mutually beneficial to both sectors.

The seminar will be held in the Auditorium at the Glen Eira Town Hall starting at 6 pm. A three course dinner will be served and the cost in $25. Registrations are essential. For further information contact Manager Business Development Lynda Bredin on 9524 333 visit the website.

Toastmasters on campus

Staff and students are invited to a meeting on Wednesday 28 August to establish a Toastmaster's Clubs on the Caulfield Campus. 

At the beginning of the year MONSU Caulfield President Tim Wilson, called for expressions of interest from students who were interested in starting a public speaking group on campus. 

The response from the students was overwhelming and a meeting was held to establish the type of public speaking group that the students might want. The result of the initial discussions concluded with the students wanting a Toastmaster's style group to be established. 

The idea was them promoted to staff and Manuel Proeger from the Library expressed an interest in wanting to start a Toastmaster's club on campus. 

Since then Tim and Manuel have worked with Toastmaster's to establish a club on campus.  

A meeting will be held on Wednesday 28th August  hold a meeting to register and establish a club. This meeting is being held in the Clayfield Room (A
Block) at 6:00PM on 2002. 

If any staff members are interested in being involved in this club to learn
to speak in public, improve their public speaking skills or just meet new
people and make friends come along.

If anyone has any questions please do not hesitate to contact Tim Wilson on extn 32567 or mobile 0417 356 165.

RetireInvest seminar 

RetireInvest Malvern invites you to a seminar entitled 'Superannuation – The Basics'.

In this one hour seminar we will discuss the following topics:

• Understanding your statements – explanation of key terms

• Reasonable Benefit Limits – what are they and do they apply to you

• Superannuation and Tax

• Additional Contributions to superannuation – why this may be a good strategy for you and how it works

•  Superannuation Surcharge – what is the surcharge, who it applies to, and the recent changes.

This free seminar will take place on Monday, 26 August 2002 at 1 pm in the Clayfield Room. 

A light lunch will be provided.  The seminar will run for approximately 50 minutes, with questions encouraged during the session.

Bookings are essential.  Please register with Kate Chamberlain at RetireInvest Malvern on 9500 1460. All welcome!

e-Soup

Do you have a favourite soup recipe that is easy to prepare, economical and enjoyable? 

Community Services is collecting soup recipes from all staff members of the university community on the Caulfield campus. Our plan is to collate the recipes for distribution to students during student survival week. 

Many students are on limited budgets. Many are living away from home for the first time and don't know how to cook or long for the taste of home. Sharing your recipe could help students to prepare a nutritious soup and we all know that eating well enhances the ability to learn!

Please send your easy, economical, enjoyable soup recipes to Rochelle Umansky as soon as possible.

Diary dates

30 August  Accounting & Finance seminar 'Have New Zealand banks really become more efficient', by David Tripe , Centre for Banking Studies , Massey University. A1.37. 12 noon.

Caulfield moves

MONSU catering has moved. The catering office is now located in A1.20 of the ground floor of building A next to the Switchboard. Catering can still be contacted on the same extn 32530.

Are you or someone you know making a move this year either to a new job, a conference or through a collaborative venture? Please let Offcourse know. 

Authorised by the Office of the Campus Director - Caulfield 

Contributions can be emailed to Julie. Ryan@adm.monash.edu.au by 5 pm Thursdays.