Have you met David, Contractor Safety/Fire Prevention Coordinator? Spend the next 2 minutes getting to know him a little better.
Where is your favourite place on campus?
I’d say the green spaces of the quad locations are fantastic. There are locations to sit on a nice summer’s day and just enjoy.
Tablet or paper?
Myself, I’m a paper guy.
Name one thing you’ve brought to work from home.
Pictures of my children. They keep me happy and all that good stuff.
What is the one thing you can’t live without?
I would say TV. I’m not too sure how I’d do without a TV.
If you won airfare to anywhere in the world, where would you go?
I would actually like to go to Germany. Absolutely. I’ve heard lots of really good things, so I’d love to check that out.
You can invite anyone — alive or dead, real or fictional — to dinner. Who would it be?
I would have to say my grandfather. He’s an individual I never met and I’ve heard lots of really good things about him. So I would love to have my grandfather over for dinner.
If you could switch jobs with someone else on campus for a week, what would you do?
To be honest with you, I love my job. So I couldn’t see myself switching with anybody. But if I did, it would probably be somebody within the health and safety profession. So somebody perhaps from Environment, Health and Safety for a week.
What does “uplifting the whole people” mean to you?
Uplifting the whole people means bringing everyone together and working collectively and collaboratively to achieve the same goals essentially.
If you could solve any problem in the world, what would it be?
I would say racism, as this is a very big problem in our world today and creates many barriers in life.
What 3 words best describe your U of A experience?
Dedicated, devoted, and certainly approachable.
About David Reiter
A dead ringer for Minion Dave (or so some people claim), David Reiter is the Contractor Safety/Fire Prevention Coordinator for the Facilities and Operations Safety Division. He has a background in construction and has been part of the crew that built several of our buildings on campus in the last ten years.
For seven of those years, David has been a Gold Seal Certified National Construction Safety Officer. Since officially joining the university five years ago, David has helped launch the contractor safety program which was a tremendous amount of work in a very short period of time.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.