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Achieving a safety culture amid a pandemic
February 17, 2021
Fire brigade training is an important element of the pellet industry’s safety approach. Credit: Pinnacle Renewable Energy,
Every day, WPAC members and their employees work tirelessly to ensure leading safety practices are implemented and embraced. We know we will be measured by our collective efforts as an industry. Our reputation and the trust of regulators, the general public and the families of our employees depend on this. That we achieved this and more in 2020 was no small feat in the context of a global pandemic.
With the support of our partner, the BC Forest Safety Council (BCFSC), and the commitment of our members from the boardrooms to the plants across Canada, we were able to overcome the challenges of not being able to meet face to face. It meant long, virtual web conferencing, technical glitches and it required at times more patience and perseverance than most have with technology on the best
Posted: Feb 17, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 17
Medical worker Robert Gilbertson loads a syringe with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to be administered by nurses at a vaccination site in Los Angeles on Tuesday. During a recent study, researchers determined that half the amount of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine dose was capable of triggering a significant immune response.(Apu Gomes/AFP/Getty Images)
Dalhousie researchers study insomnia to address Canadian sleeping pill usage
16% of older adults in Nova Scotia use sleeping pills and Atlantic Canada has the highest rates in the country
Jan 31, 2021 1:59 PM By: Chris Stoodley
Dalhousie University researchers are studying insomnia in response to sleeping pill usage in Canada.
Atlantic Canada has the highest rate of sleeping pill usage among older adults in the country.
In Canada, an average of 10 per cent of people 65 and older regularly use sleeping pills. In New Brunswick, that rate is 25 per cent; in Nova Scotia, it s 16 per cent.
“Our focus is on those who are most vulnerable to the plagues of sleep as well as the plagues of sleeping pills in terms of their side effects,” David Gardner, a professor in Dalhousie University’s department of psychiatry and college of pharmacy, told NEWS 95.7.