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layout and development and on-call 24/7 for manage- ment services. League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust Regional Safety Group Program For over 10 years MMUA and LMCIT have been work- ingtogether in partnership to deliver safety services to League of Minnesota Cities members. The Regional Safety Group program is a very popular program that MMUA facilitates for the LMCIT. The RSG groupings are a flexible way for small members of the LMCIT workers compensation program to meet state and federal OSHA mandates under the guidance of MMUA staff. MMUA helps the small cities establish a working safety committee and delivers appropriate generalized safety training to the group throughout the year. By the end of 2010 MMUA was serving 15 LMCIT regional safety groups with a total of 85 Minnesota cities involved. An additional group is coming on board in January, 2011, bringing three more cities into the program. MMUA's Kurt Rothwell is the program leader. LMCIT/MMUA Generation Operations & Maintenance Project For the past two years MMUA has been working in partnership with the League of Minnesota cities Insur- ance Trust on a pilot project to develop a comprehensive, user-friendly operations and maintenance manual and data collection system for municipal generation facilities. The pilot project has been very productive and resulted in the development of comprehensive, high quality 0&M manuals in the two pilot communities, Hutchinson and Glencoe. LMCIT is pleased with the results and is look- ingforward to moving the project past the pilot phase and into the general implementation phase. We look forward to working with other generating municipal electric utilities around the state in the coming yeare. We expect to begin lining up projects for the next phase of the project early in 2011. The benefits of the program in terms of protecting valuable generating equipment and maintaining skilled and confident equipment opera- tors are substantial. Jeff Becthold is the coordinator of this program. E-Learning pilot project This past year MMUA has been working with a local company called CLMI to develop an on-line training cur- riculum to streamline general safety topics such as Right to Know and Blood borne pathogens. The MMUA safety team believes that if we can streamline general safety topics the MMUA safety staff will be able to spend more time on the more important safety concerns at your city/ utility. Mutual aid It seems like every few years one or more of our member utilities encounters a catastrophic disaster like a dev- astating tornado, Aood or maybe the dreaded ice storm, This was one of those years. Beginning in June we en- countered aseries of natural disasters, from the multiple twisters that devastated the city of Wadena to the floods in Owatonna, New Ulm, Truman, Jackson and several other communities. We never know when disaster will strike, but we do know that it is only a matter of time before the next one occurs. MMUA staff has gained a tremendous amount of hard-won experience in responding to tornadoes, floods, and ice storms over the years. MMUA staff is prepared to come to your community to assist in the process of rebuilding your facilities when disaster strikes. MMUA can organize and oversee the mutual aid effort so that your staff can concentrate on the many tasks that they will need to focus on in a disaster recovery effort. MMUA has developed asoon-to-be-released comprehen- sive mutual aid manual to help with many of the impor- tant factors dealing with the disaster recovery. In this manual you will find forms and procedures to organize the recovery effort and prepare for FEMA involvement. The manual also provides phone numbers to get help, starting with MMUA safety staff. MMUA is just a phone call away 24/7, so don't hesitate to make the call. 2010 Year in Review -13 MMUA's Jeff Becthold, left, in the Glencoe power plant along with power plant staff. MMUA's Gary Greenwald, left, joined several municipal crews as part of a recent mutual aid effort.