Carol Shelby (Senior Director EHPS) and John Howarter (Asst Prof Materials Engineering /Environ And Ecological Engineering)

The award is presented at the annual safety chair meeting in March of each year. The President or his designee will present a plaque to the individual or group in recognition of the safety achievement.

John has served on the MSE Safety Committee in 2012; he initiated a new program with the MSE graduate students to form their own safety committee. As the faculty advisor for grad/undergrad MSE student organizations he has been the leader in building and maintaining workplace safety culture from students, faculty and staff. He continues to demonstrate personal leadership in expanding the safety culture by ensuring effective transitions of key responsibilities to new faculty and staff. Aligning MSE with R.E.M. and has allowed MSE to be responsive to changes in university safety policy. Under John’s leadership our safety audit and incident record has improved while we have tripled the number of lab users.

Source: Presidential Safety Award