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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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2020 BUILDING OPERATIONS STAFF EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNERS Through the Staff Excellence Award Program, Building Operations provides recognition and rewards our staff who have consistently demonstrated excellence in the performance of their work and service to the University throughout the year.  All staff are invited to nominate one (or more!) of their colleagues […]

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PAID LEAVE FOR STAFF BETWEEN BOXING DAY & NEW YEAR’S DAY Certain UBC staff are eligible for paid leave during the university’s seasonal closure — the three normal working days between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. This year’s seasonal closure falls on Dec. 29, 30, and 31, 2020. This paid leave is addressed in […]

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PLANON UPDATES PMFS Pause Status Fixed The “Pause” status on PMFS has now been fixed. The carpentry shop reported that when jobs were paused at the end of the day, the timecard was not being updated. Instead, the technician had to manually add time against the time card. Once the job was actually completed in PMFS, […]

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ALL STAFF MUST ADHERE TO PROVINCE-WIDE COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS By order and direction of the Provincial Health Officer, all individuals, places of work and businesses in B.C must adhere to the new province-wide restrictions:  https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/covid-19-provincial-support/restrictions  Important guidelines that staff are to follow:   Non-medical masks are required in indoors spaces. Face shields are recommended for individuals with exceptions that […]

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DAILY COVID-19 SELF ASSESSMENTS MUST BE COMPLETED DAILY PRIOR TO COMING TO WORK ON CAMPUS The updated Public Health Orders reinforce the requirement for all faculty and staff to self-assess daily for symptoms of COVID-19, before arriving at their workplace.  Please use the BC self-assessment tool at https://bc.thrive.health/ to complete your self assessment prior to coming to work on […]

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