FREE TOURS OF THE BRILLIANT EXPANSION PROJECT

Columbia Power Corporation, Columbia Basin Trust and the Brilliant Expansion Consortium are pleased to announce the first Brilliant Expansion Project Community Day on Sunday, October 2nd, 2005. This free event is located at the Brilliant Dam near Castlegar, and is open to everyone.

Free tours of the Project will be conducted, starting with Senior's tours from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m., and tours for the general public running from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Along with the tours, children's activities will be available and free entertainment and refreshments will be offered throughout the day.

Plans are to take visitors by bus across the Brilliant Dam, and then proceed on foot through the access tunnel to the powerhouse site, where they will re-board the bus for the trip back to the Brilliant Dam. Proper footwear is required and visitors are asked to leave their pets at home. Because parking on site is limited, visitors are encouraged to carpool to this event.

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Most creative waterstop weld

and the award goes to Afternoon shift!
L. Voykin and D.Livingston 03.16.05

Global workplace deaths vastly under-reported, says ILO

Global workplace deaths vastly under-reported, says ILO - International Labour Organization
'Occupational safety and health is vital to the dignity of work', said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia. 'Still, every day, on average, some 5,000 or more women and men around the world lose their lives because of work-related accidents and illness. Decent Work must be safe work, and we are a long way from achieving that goal.'

Brilliant Intakes - photos 1669, 1670, 1671

Brilliant Intakes - photos 1666, 1667, 1668

Photos by Pete Walton

Forest union threatens 'death' strikes

Forest union threatens 'death' strikes - by Gordon Hamilton, CanWest News Service
VANCOUVER -- Forest workers say they are considering shutting down the entire forest industry for a day of mourning every time a logger dies on the job in a bid to focus attention on the industry's unacceptably high number of fatalities.

Twenty-seven workers have died in the B.C. forest industry this year, according to Darrell Wong, president of Local 2171 of the Steelworkers Union, which passed last week a resolution calling for such a shutdown.

'If the whole industry were to shut down every time somebody was killed, then safety would suddenly become a very high profile issue,' said Wong, who represents loggers working on the B.C. coast.

Brilliant rod busters

rodbusters - scroll case - afternoon shift, April 8, 2005






photos by Doc Livingston

Skanska and Ikea join up to build "flat pack" homes

BoKlok brings smart living to the UK
BoKlok is a concept developed in Sweden by Skanska and IKEA. BoKlok homes are popular across Scandinavia where over 2000 people own a BoKlok home.

IKEA BoKlok Flatpack houses spread Swedish gospel

Skanska.com: "BoKlok (LiveSmart) is growing. The UK will be the first market outside the Nordic region to receive "flat pack" homes, a concept developed and owned jointly with IKEA.


maybe Brilliant should have been a consortium of Skanska and Lego?

Steel starts - Saturday 10 Sept crane pick

here are the last 3 pictures (1665, 1664 and 1663) in the series of the Sat. Sept 10 crane pick... click each image for a much larger image

all the photos in this series are by Pete Walton

images 1662, 1661, 1660 in series...

images 1659, 1657, 1656 in series...

images 1655, 1654, 1653 in series...

images 1652, 1650, 1649 in series...

images 1648, 1646, 1645 in series...

Mats Alexanderson examines the gate guides -

but there's something strange about the tailrace perspective...

Powerhouse News and Review

Safety Rep. Don Wilson has pointed out (and rightly so) that the forklifts are for all the trades and that Don Lapinski has to start using the stair towers to access the top of the powerhouse.
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Theresa Johnson has requested (AGAIN!) that the chairs from the 1st Aid Shack NOT be taken every time there is a shortage of scaffold screwjacks.
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Site security observed a Brilliant worker taking equipment off-site for personal use. This is not to be tolerated as Skip Brewster needs those hay bales for stopping the rocks from falling when scaling above the workers in the intakes.

The impact of overtime and long work hours on occupational injuries and illnesses

The impact of overtime and long work hours on occupational injuries and illnesses: new evidence from the United States - Dembe et al., Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Results: After adjusting for those factors, working in jobs with overtime schedules was associated with a 61% higher injury hazard rate compared to jobs without overtime. Working at least 12 hours per day was associated with a 37% increased hazard rate and working at least 60 hours per week was associated with a 23% increased hazard rate. A strong dose-response effect was observed, with the injury rate (per 100 accumulated worker-years in a particular schedule) increasing in correspondence to the number of hours per day (or per week) in the workers' customary schedule.

Ted Chant visits Brilliant

Ted is suitably impressed with the new outrigger support pad for the 440 Ton crane that will be in place on August 18 August 28 Sept 6 and he hopes to stop by for a few more minutes later in the fall.

Hurricane Katrina - How to Help

Hurricane Katrina - Canadian Red Cross
Hurricane Katrina - American Red Cross
Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund II - AFL-CIO's Union Community Fund

I made a donation today via the Canadian Red Cross Katrina fund as the AFL-CIO site (above) has no Canadian address function, and the Canadian Labour Congress has no reference to Katrina as of 11 AM Friday...
fraternally, d@ve livingston

updates: Hurricane Relief News Briefs AFL-CIO

Brilliant Powerhouse construction from the highway viewpoint