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Safety and Health Corner – February 2025
Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
Safety & Health Committee Update
The Committee held its first meeting on October 22, 2024. The Committee members appreciated this new forum to be able to get together and discuss the similarities and differences of the various university safety and health committees’ endeavours and operations they sit on. As a result, the AESES Business Office on behalf of the committee is looking at ways to better ease communications and information sharing between meetings. The Committee’s next meeting is planned to be held in early 2025.
Please watch for updates on the Committee’s activities regularly in the newsletter. For more info on UM Local Area Safety and Health (LASH) Committees, visit the UM Intranet website. For more information on the UW Workplace Safety & Health Committee, visit the UW Human Resources website.
UM Fort Gary Campus November 19, 2024 Incident – Report of an Individual with a Knife
In response to the incident, the AESES President, Executive Director and Labour Relations Officer met with the UM President on November 26 to bring forth concerns shared with us by the membership regarding the communication and response during the incident. Following feedback received from AESES and the university community, and as outlined in UM’s Emergency Response Plan, the UM leadership and Emergency Response Team reviewed the relevant protocols following this incident. The review was completed in late December with several areas of improvement identified, some of which have already been implemented. The UM Emergency Procedures and Response Plan is available online: umanitoba.ca/security/emergency-procedures
Campus Security Tips
Both UM and UW have Working Alone policies and procedures, Safe apps, Safe Walk and Safe Ride programs. Please familiarize yourself with these policies/programs if you think they will be of help to you.
If you have any workplace safety and health items which you would like to bring to the committee’s attention, please email: labourteam@aeses.ca.
Safety and Health Corner – October 2024
Sunday, October 1st, 2023
Announcing the New AESES Safety & Health Committee
The AESES Board of Representatives recently established the AESES Safety & Health Committee to connect safety representatives across the AESES membership and promote consistency between workplace health and safety policies and practices at UM, UW, and St. Andrew’s College. The Membership consists of the AESES President or a designate, the Contract Administrators for UM and UW (Rob Parker and Joan Duesterdiek), and AESES Labour Relations Officer Lorne Hilton.
The rationale for creating this Committee is to be more supportive and connected to safety and health in the workplace. This new corner of the newsletter will be used to highlight the committee’s work, as well as share important safety & health tips and information to help nurture a community of caring – for our colleagues and ourselves.
Stay tuned for updates on the Committee’s activities in this section of the newsletter. Any workplace safety and health items you would like to bring to the committee’s attention can be emailed to labourteam@aeses.ca.
Currently we have 19 AESES appointed representatives on the safety committees at the UM and 3 at the UW.
There are vacancies in the following Local Area Safety and Health (LASH) committees:
- Nursing
- Education, St, Paul’s, St. John’s, NCTR, CATL
Any AESES-UM members working in the above areas interested in being the AESES appointed representative on the respective vacant LASH committee for a 2-year term can email labourteam@aeses.ca.
For more info on UM LASH committees, visit the UM Intranet website. For more information on the UW Workplace Safety & Health Committee, visit the UW Human Resources website.