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DOUGLAS COLLEGE INTER OFFICE MEMO

TO:

FROM:

ALL PERSONNEL DATE: 26 November 197

THE SAFETY COMMITTEE

First Aid Facilities

In response to concerned students, faculty, staff, and WCB regulations, the Safety Committee is endeavouring to up-grade and generally ensure adequate first-aid facilities on campus.

First Aid regulations as outlined in WCB pamphlets pose some problems considering the temporary nature of most buildings on campus. The

plans for a permanent structure at Richmond Campus have incorporated

in them adequate first-aid facilities, but at the present moment, the Safety Committee is making representation to the Administration to

provide facilities which conform as closely as possible to the model

layed out in the WCB regulations. This states that the College comes under the heading of a Class C institution which requires a first-aid attendant with an Industrial First-Aid Certificate and a First-Aid

Room which must be used for no other purpose other than to administer first-aid.

We are fortunate that all three campuses are less that 15 minutes from emergency hospitalization services.

The need for adequate first-aid facilities are of importance to the College Community as a whole and where the implementation of first-aid facilities may disrupt some existing arrangements, we are sure that staff and faculty

will appreciate the wider needs of the entire college.

Safety Committee

John Beardsley Administration Tom Rosamond BCGEU Local 62 Lloyd Pond Faculty

Andrew MacAdam BCGEU Local 62