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DOUGLAS COLLEGE
Wednesday, April 17, 1985 ARCHIVES

 

 

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

"People should be able to change and my job is to help them do just that," says

 

Dianne Morrow, the coordinator of a unique training program at Douglas Col lege.

Morrow originally set up, and teaches the Occupational Health program. She shows

nurses how to enter the workforce and make other people's jobs safer.

"The way to do that is to make people do things differently, and that's what our

program at Douglas College is like - different," she says.

"When students walk in, as they've been doing for five years, they're usually
surprised to find out how we teach. Occupational Health Consultants learn a bit

of new information from our classes but also a whole bunch of other things."

The program usually is offered to Registered Nursing graduates, but core courses
have been designed to incorporate other professionals wanting to upgrade their

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"Actually, Occupational Health was put together by an interdisciplinary group made
up of union and management representatives," Morrow says. "The focus is on the

future and that's why it is so practical."

"We've created the type of climate in the College that students will find out in
industry," she says. "First they have to assess a situation, and then move in

and put themselves in a position to make changes."

And many of her graduates are doing just that - helping make British Columbia a

safer province to work in. Last year Morrow and committed industries put together