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   Banked OT Payouts–Submit to Building Ops Payroll ASAP! Banked time payouts – please submit ASAP Payouts of banked overtime (“1P” on your timecards) have to be processed by UBC Financial Operations before they go on employees’ paycheques. Financial Operations have advised that they are extremely busy in the runup to the end […]

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Top Stories   SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THE 2017 WORKPLACE EXPERIENCE SURVEY The 2017 Workplace Experience Survey is coming. As discussed in the recent townhalls we took the results from the 2014 survey and built a number of very deliberate programs to help improve our/your workplace experience. These included things like the New Employee Onboarding, […]

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Top Stories   Town Hall Recap Now Available Online Did you miss the town halls held earlier in October? Well you missed more than Russell’s new standup routine, you missed a ton of interesting updates. You can review the presentations here https://buildingoperations.ubc.ca/staff/communications/town-halls/. Follow up with your manager or superintendent for a little more info on […]

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Top Stories   INJURY INCIDENTS ON THE RISE: BE AWARE, USE CAUTION AND SAY SOMETHING IF YOU SEE ANYTHING UNSAFE We would like to remind ALL staff to watch your footing and avoid being distracted while navigating campus on foot. Based on trends we are seeing in the incident/accident reports, the Building Ops Joint Occupational Health […]

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Top Stories   BE MINDFUL OF NOISY WORK IN BUILDINGS Remember to be mindful of noisy work in buildings always. Check with your FM if you are unsure of the impact. Specifically, any work to be done in the Buchanan Tower right now should be discussed with FM Patrick Wong.   SOFT LANDSCAPE CLEAN-UP WORK IN […]

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