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Disability Institute opens
operation in Port Alberni

After several years of hard work

The new Institute is a unique

and struggle there is finally a Disabili-
ty Management Institute in Canada.
Just this past fall, th y

col nie of Po: eh aries

the grand opening of the National In-
pole of Disability Management and

esearcl
The Insti tute, which opened its

doors on October 17, 1994, is a first
of it ‘it is the re-

d d i work-

place. The Institute will have three

major puuctions; education, training,
and pear

te 8)
the Institute will zero a ie training
management and labour on how

sult of years of work and feenaing by
the Disabled Forestry Workers Foun-
dation of Canada and other support-
ers from unions, industry, and
government.

ro)

lisability

austegement, programs S right 1 in the
ork sit

or]
"Plot pro h will be devel-
oped in eanfitettn Lae North Island
College, will include the following:

week disability manage-
ment/coordination course for work-

ticipants i in the Six- ‘week course. The
union.
Energy, and

ea a Hee -day course to orientate
iBinw

and

pioneer for getting "disabled workers

° a thr ae course to orientate
hineenetacers supervisors and shop
stewards.

‘The research part of the Institute

will be geared towards the develee:
ment of an information library

work with the
company at the Somass paceaat mill di-
vision in Port Alberni

ee, that is overseeing the ro eete

information needed for employers to
comply with legal and employment

workplace. So far the Soniee pro-
gram has put more than a dozen dis-

the human, social and economic costs
of deeb lites and;
national collaboration on
database Se omen
six-week course will take
Port.

‘immerman says that the insulate

ie type a work
that is done. Accomodations for the

es se ave I
bei erni, After thi that the course will be fic

sites. The I A 1 th

workplac
A Worker will more productive and

age to help sustain its activites. The
British Columbia Institute of Technol-
ogy has crpreesed interest in using
the six- TEST
Any etrcin licensing DEC
enn val How ina) an e ndow!
p the p

be
off i
he/she can be be gainfully reemployed
following inj
The Tastitute hes, at its disposal,
ome of the most modern facilities
eyaiabe The nee aiesastam ne
will utilize interactive video
be fibre optic linked to electronic mail
'D-ROM i

in-
Faas

Bul in bank funds. It intends to
pay Tae A eood part of the operation

m inter

f.

he n raised. The Instinate has re-
ceived $1 million from Human Re-
es and Development Canada,
$600, ,000 from the B.C. Ministry of
Skills, , Training, and Labour, and is
lo ooking to zecelve about $1 million
from the B C. 21 fund.

formati

ina cooremntivate effort with the Ger-
an Institute ot Bronte

also has a fully fur-

nished | boardroon mamed after Port

si eat Workers Foundation of

_We expect and hope that ae IWA

nations from Canadian ae Prod-
ucts, MacMillan Bloedel, TimberWest,
and Fletcher Challenge canada The
Institute is also lookin oe

forest companies and anes employe
el

Woligan ig Zimmerman, long-time ac-
tivist on disabili hity 3s sues, and now Di-
ieee "of the Institute, says that the
IWA will lil ilely & be one of the first par-

We
el, ” says Zimmerman. “The 1WA

Porting o1
The Diese rrorestey Workers
‘oundation of Canada has a nineteen

rl Foxcroft, National
Injured W Workers Representative for

Extra care needed with stakes ©

Recently, while I was sitting at a
truck stop, a haul tru ick loaded with

to the driver who said he hadn't

omer ad paca te struck 6

ee damaged at the time. On closer in-

he load and spacer log pushed
against

at the taint where the stake was bent,

was that the loader had seriously
damaged the stake | and the bend be-

result in es ae stakes for several
reasons. First, they are awkward to
load that eight or sixteen foot logs.

accidentally hit the stakes eon and
back) or to intentionally use them as
pivot points to emalatiedid ae a clam

load of trees. In both ch 1
can be damaged.

Second, the eight-foot SpaCeE ae
(which facilitates unloading | by

ward trees) also exerts pressure
the Stake: es as it must. be Piseed tight

per layer cannot roll on this log and
possibly cause a spill.
Finally, the load itself exerts: the

stakes as it extends beyond the
stakes, often by as much as 15 feet,
and sways eae and forth around
every corner.

lany truckers have recognized th
need for stakes with additional toad

of the i
pinedoe by patentee stronger, rein-
road stakes or by paaty ing an extra
pocket for double stal

heavier to change Gane yeauuiiing
are of
ten | temporarily replaced with more

another reinforced one can be ob-

running nan double stakes at the
front and back of their trailers. Most
new railers now come with double
and many
garages and welding shops have pre-
fabricated pockets that they can at-
ets.

standard.
Bernie Stockermans is a forest in-
in On-
tario. This article fie appeared in
Health and Safety Resource maga-
zine, published by the Ontari to Nat-

14/LUMBERWORKER/MARCH, 1995

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