Umhoefer picked for health and safety post

Dave Umhoefer is the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s new health and safety coordinator.

The local’s Executive Board has named Umhoefer, a Politifact Wisconsin reporter, to deal with any concerns about ergonomics, air quality or other health and safety issues affecting union-represented workers in the Journal Sentinel’s downtown newsroom and Wisconsin bureaus. He fills a post that has been vacant since metro reporter Susanne Rust left the paper in 2009.