Building Operations Weekly archive

Building Operations Weekly is published by email each week on Tuesday. It contains a summary of the news and events published that week to the Building Operations digital signage network. Below, organized by date in descending order, is the content of each week’s email newsletter since January 2015. Calendar events are not archived.

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Top Stories   WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR SAFETY–AVOID SLIPS, TRIPS AND FALLS Prevent slips, trips and fall by wearing slip resistant shoes, clean and maintain work space, use barriers or other indicator to prevent others from slipping. In avoiding slips, trips and falls, watch out for these 10 common hazards: Contaminants on the floor […]

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Top Stories   THE EYES HAVE IT–MARCH IS WORKPLACE EYE SAFETY AWARENESS MONTH The human eye is often taken for granted, many rarely consider their vision health. Eye injuries in the workplace are surprisingly common. According to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, over 700 Canadian workers per day sustain eye injuries on the […]

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Top Stories   What Are We Doing for Safety? Reduce the Hazards of Backing Backing can almost always be eliminated or greatly reduced. Whenever possible, attempt to eliminate the need to backup when planning. Should the need arise, be sure to utilize the available and appropriate safeguards to prevent an incident from occurring. Best Practices […]

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Top Stories   What Are You Doing for Safety? Follow Traffic Flow in the USB Yard This is a reminder to please use the Entrance gate to enter the USB Yard and the Exit gate to leave to avoid incidents. Remember, there’s also foot traffic from our Building Ops staff.   Launching Respectful Workplace Conversations […]

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Top Stories   Municipal Crews Hard at Work to keep Roadways and Walkways clear of snow On Friday February 23rd  UBC Municipal crews were kept busy with successfully keeping Campus roads and pathways clear of the falling snow. Crews worked throughout the evening and into Saturday in order to clear priority roadways and pathways on […]

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