Each month, the Safety TG committee has a remote meeting to discuss new initiatives, progress on current initiatives, suggestions from our members, and more.
TG committee meeting minutes 1st April 2020
Attendees:
Arjun
Gabe
Huiyang
Leah
Tamsyn
TG conference program
The Safety TG program for the Annual HFES conference was reviewed. 33 submissions were received, 16 were student submissions.
Next step is to reach out to reviewers (deadline April 10th).
Gabe will post a reminder announcement on community pages and send email invites to previous reviewers
Member satisfaction and initiatives survey
Arjun developed a brief survey for safety TG members focused on satisfaction and initiatives that would provide value to members. Member involvement is essential!
Arjun sent out the survey to the team and received feedback, which he is now integrating.
Release of the survey will be within the April!
Mentorship scheme
Huiyang has developed a form for prospective mentees and mentors to complete. Will be sending to the committee for review.
Next steps include posting this on community pages
Huiyang brought up the requirement of a specialized mentorship email address which the committee is working on.
Newsletter
Ali working hard on all the elements!
Will be distributed in April.
Response to COVID-19
Excellent ideas were raised about engaging the safety TG in the response to the current public health situation (special thanks to Leah and Arjun)
Leah proposed an initial discussion area. Arjun and Leah will work on this
Arjun raised the benefit of having a social media presence for the TG community, such as a twitter handle. Arjun, Leah, Tamsyn and Ali to review this further.