News in category Occupational Health & Safety Committee

OH&S Committee meets

Posted January 13, 2012 in Union Updates, Occupational Health & Safety Committee

Members of AUPE’s Occupational Health and Safety Committee met at union headquarters Jan. 13 in Edmonton. This was the first meeting at headquarters for the standing committee, which added new members following AUPE’s Convention in October 2011.

Minutes - Occupational Health and Safety Committee

Posted December 07, 2011 in Occupational Health & Safety Committee

AT THE MAYFIELDS INN

The meeting was called to order at 9:30 AM with Erez in the Chair

ROLL CALL

Present: Erez Raz, Roseline Bouchie, Meredith Debnam, Willow Knoll, Roy Jackman, Barry Madsen, Carrie-Lynn Rusznak

Regrets: Judy Fader, Betty-Ann Robson

Staff Advisor: Dennis Malayko

Staff: Megan Johnston, Secretary

Guest: Lynn Gough

OH&S Advocate Level 1 in Calgary

Posted September 30, 2011 in Union Updates, Occupational Health & Safety Committee

Members from southern Alberta take part in the Occupational Health and Safety Advocate Level 1 course held in Calgary Sept. 29 and 30. AUPE is piloting a system whereby all core courses are offered in Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer for the fall term.

OH&S Committee meets

Posted September 16, 2011 in Union Updates, Occupational Health & Safety Committee

AUPE’s Occupational Health and Safety Committee met at union headquarters Sept. 12 in Edmonton.

Best Practices manuals in demand

Posted September 08, 2011 in Union Updates, Occupational Health & Safety Committee

Work Safe Alberta’s best practices guidelines are so popular that AUPE’s head office has run out of copies of several editions.

“We’ve had so many requests from members that we’re all out of the first three manuals,” said Occupational Health and Safety Representative Dennis Malayko. “The only one we currently have in stock is the latest volume, ‘Best Practices for the Assessment and Control of Physical Hazards.’”

AUPE marks five-year anniversary of Stephanie Stewart Disappearance

Posted August 26, 2011 in Government Services, Union Updates, Occupational Health & Safety Committee

EDMONTON – Today marks five years since 70-year-old Stephanie Stewart vanished from her post at an Athabasca lookout tower near Hinton while on duty as a fire spotter, a job she held for 18 fire seasons.