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Intern presents updated town safety policy; board questions discipline language and committee structure
Summary
A summer intern presented an updated municipal safety policy that separates regular safety training and new-employee orientation, references OSHA and North Carolina Department of Labor guidance, and establishes a safety committee; commissioners asked for alignment with personnel policy and town attorney review on disciplinary language.
Matthew Pennington, a master’s of public administration student interning with the town, presented a completed draft of an updated Wendell municipal safety policy and asked the board to review the document prior to approval by the town manager.
Pennington said the town’s last up-to-date safety policy on file was approved on April 20, 2018, and that the update resulted from comparative analysis of peer municipalities and federal/state guidance. The draft separates regular safety training…
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