Brilliant photos via Skanska

Brilliant photos in a Flash slide show format and can be viewed by clicking the "Sunday" link

the 6 photos can also be accessed at the Skanska safety week web page near the bottom under the title Picture of the Day

MAKING ZERO ACCIDENTS A REALITY

MAKING ZERO ACCIDENTS A REALITY
Skanska is committed to providing a safe working environment for all workers on our sites, with the primary objective of zero accidents.

Our vision is to be a world leader in construction-related safety performance driven by a philosophy of countinual improvement.

Safety Week is our opportunity to build on the success of last year's Safety Day - to demonstrate that we can all work in a safe environment on a continual basis. After all, everyone has the right to leave work each day in the same condition that they arrived.

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Skanska Malta JV Safety Week

Skanska Malta JV Safety Week 24th-28th OCTOBER 2005
Mater Dei Hospital Project, Malta
SMJV emphasize a lot on having the worksite clean and well organized as this goes hand in hand with health, safety and environmental efficiency. The use of scaffolds when working at heights above 2m and personal protective equipment (PPE) when handling various chemicals in particular hazardous chemicals are mandatory.

The team sees that under no circumstances an opening is left uncovered. Guardrails are erected and maintained by two permanently employed Skanska carpenters and whenever removed for temporary access, they are immediately refitted.

Skanska Safety Week 2005

Last year on Safety Day, Skanska achieved close to 1,000,000 working hours without any reported accidents. This year, we are aiming even higher.

The week of October 24-30 is Skanska Safety Week. Throughout the company – at locations around the globe – Skanska’s job sites will have one goal in common: one week, zero accidents. Because we believe that if we can achieve one day or one week without accidents, then it must also be possible to have no accidents at all.

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Job Action in the Kootenays Sends Clear Message to Campbell Government

BC Federation of Labour
'Job action today by union members in the Kootenays sends a clear message to the Campbell government to negotiate, not legislate,' said B.C. Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair.

Thousands of private and public sector union members were off the job today in the East and West Kootenays to protest Bill 12.

'From mines, to mills, to municipal halls -- the tremendous demonstration of the labour movement today should not be ignored by the Liberal government,' Sinclair said. 'There is an opportunity here for some real bargaining to take place and I strongly encourage the government to take it.'

Sinclair thanked the East and West Kootenay Labour Councils for their hard work in ensuring today's protests were a success.

Skanska Safety Day, held on October 20, 2004

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An injury-free workplace - that’s the goal when Skanska intensifies its focus on safety. With a new Safety Strategy Skanska aims to become the world leader in safety performance, through consistent improvements towards the goal of zero accidents.

A safe work environment not only eliminates accidents. It also raises the level of quality, improves productivity and increases the value for the customer.

New Safety Strategy

The strategy includes issues like management focus, continual improvement and performance follow-up. The target, of course, is the injury-free workplace. To achieve this, safety is top of the agenda of all Skanska’s operational site meetings from Seattle to Warsaw. This, along with regular site-specific safety hazard analyses and mandatory personal protection equipment such as hard hats and high visibility vests, are requirements included in the new strategy.

“By following the Skanska Safety Strategy, we can achieve our vision of an injury-free workplace in all our markets - and ensure that every individual who works on a Skanska site gets home safely at the end of each day. This is not only a matter of values, but also of performance and responsibility,” says Stuart Graham, Skanska’s President and CEO.

The Skanska Safety Day, held on October 20, high-lighted the safety work in the various parts of Skanska and aims to raise awareness of Skanska’s new Safety strategy.

Activities included toolbox talks and managers on all levels participating in safety inspections on site.

The Skanska Safety Day also tied in with the European Week for Safety and Health at Work, the theme for this year being Building in Safety.

News Flash -- Ted Chant finds correct Blueprints -- starts building tour boat

This reporter has learned that the Brilliant Expansion Project has been changed at the last moment due to a computer glitch that printed out the wrong design plans. The artist's concept shown here reflects the new design of The Brilliant Excursion Project. The powerhouse will be still completed as drawn, but the rebar will be cut away at the gate guides and scroll case base and then the entire structure will be floated away from the tailrace launching dock. A paddle wheel generator will be installed to supply sufficient electricity to power the tour boat. When the Keenleyside dam is removed (deconstruction starts in November) for the first time in 86 years a flat bottom stern wheeler will travel the Arrow Lakes from the TransCanada highway to within a Trudeau salute of the American border. No sturgeon were harmed in the redesign.

For more information contact Wally Penner, Executive Director, Community and Regional Affairs at the Castlegar Columbia Power Corporation office 250-365-8532

Brilliant Cranes

Helicopter photos - Powerhouse

photos by Keith Paul / George Lupieri

Helicopter photos - Intakes

photos by Keith Paul / George Lupieri

Brilliant faces: site wide safety meetings

Pete Walton - (photos by d@ve)

Steelworkers reach tentative settlement with Teck Cominco

Vote Tuesday: Steelworkers reach tentative settlement with Teck Cominco - Canada Newswire
A strike that started July 19 could be over soon if members of two locals of the United Steelworkers accept a settlement reached early Monday with Teck Cominco Ltd.

No details of the settlement will be released until members of Local 480 (1,140 production and maintenance employees) and 9705 (170 office and technical employees) have an opportunity to review them.

Report finds high rate of tree faller deaths in British Columbia

Report finds high rate of tree faller deaths in British Columbia - AP, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
McKibbin said he was told by fellow fallers that they are often afraid to complain about unsafe practices.

'Fallers who ignore safety are rewarded with more work and extended shifts. They (contractors) find a younger, more ignorant man on the crew to do it,' he said.

Board inspectors, McKibbin said, must give one-day notice of when they want to inspect a site, thereby giving the contractor time to 'clean things up.'

WorkSafeBC spokeswoman Donna Freeman said fallers and any other workers who feels their workplace is dangerous have a legal right to refuse do unsafe work.

Tree Fallers Report Cites Lack of Safety Measures for Carnage in B.C. Forests - Western Fallers Association
Tree fallers have the most dangerous job on the planet. Four have lost their lives so far in 2005. Eleven fallers have suffered serious injuries. In the past 10 years, 58 fallers have died in B.C. forests.