Risk Management, Audits, and Occupational Safety/Compliance
Final Report:
Co-chairs:
GSU Co-Chair-Sterling Roth, Chief Audit Officer and Director
GPC Co-Chair-Kwabena Boakye, Director of Internal Audit
GPC Co-Chair-Kwabena Boakye, Director of Internal Audit
Members:
Name | Title | Institutional Affiliation |
Boakye, Kwabena | GPC Campus Director of Internal Audit | Georgia Perimeter College |
Flot, Ren | Chief Information Security Officer / Director of Information Security | Georgia Perimeter College |
Roth, Sterling | Chief Audit Officer and Director, University Auditing and Advisory Services | Georgia State University |
Seekins, Cathy | Deputy Chief Audit Officer and Associate Director, University Auditing and Advisory Services | Georgia State University |
Tasks:
- Ensure adequate internal audit coverage
- Evaluate open audit issues for completion
- Consolidate risk management operations
- Notify institutions about consolidated ethics hotline
- Determine a new hotline URL
- Determine costs of consolidating hotline and how to budget it
- Determine conversion process for existing hotline complaints, triage, etc.
- Select which hotline telephone number to use
- Identify a hotline administrator
- Select individuals to make up triage committee and who receives case reports
- Select escalation contacts to be called in case of critical report
- Update user names and contact info on hotline portal
- Create new hotline awareness materials
- Develop timeline for distribution of new awareness material
- Convert old hotline cases to new hotline vendor
- Decide management and reporting structure for EHS, including points of contact
- Identify environmental compliance and occupationalsafety issues (including reviewing all environmental studies and surveys, including any Phase I and Phase II reports; obtaining copies of all environmental permits and permit applications of GPC; obtaining copies of any notices, complaints, suit, or similar documents sent to, received by or served upon GPC)
- Address & consolidate service/consulting contracts (waste, lab hoods, etc.)
- Amend USG/EPA self-audit agreement with consolidation changes
- Identify environmental mgmt. system requirements for multiple campuses
- Integrate environmental & occupational safety policies, plans, etc.