May 16/97

Update from the Health
and Safety Committee

oncerns raised in 1994 by the

Sexual Harassment and
Occupational Health and Safety
committees were the impetus for a
full-scale personal safety audit of all
three College campuses.

Facilitated by the provincial
government’s Safer Campuses
Initiative, two separate reports were
prepared outlining improvements
which needed to be addressed.
Improvements stemming from the
report for the North Vancouver
campus are ongoing.

Recommendations for the Sechelt
and Squamish regional campuses
were focused primarily on broad
issues of planning, rather than on
specific site factors. One of the main
issues at the Squamish campus is local
access to the campus. Apart from
inadequate signage indicating where

the college is located, the entrance road is
poorly lit, has no formal sidewalk, and is
bordered by dense brush. A primary
concern at the Sechelt campus is the ease
of which vandalism can occur as a result
of the building’s isolated architectural
design.

Both examples demonstrate the need
for planning considerations to extend
beyond function and aesthetics to
incorporate issues of safety.

In the future, I will be working with
the OH&SC as project co-ordinator,
implementing a Workplace Violence
Prevention Program. My role will include
the design of a workplace risk assessment
survey that is tentatively scheduled to be
distributed in late September. The final
report with recommendations will be
completed by the end of the fall semester.

Submitted by Erin Sackney

Faculty
Artists
Receive B.C.
Arts Council
Awards |

n April, four: members of the Studio

Art Department were each presented _
with a British Columbia Arts Council
award. These awards are given as
project assistance grantsto __
professional visual artists. _

In 1997, 57 awards have been
awarded to artists throughout British
Columbia. Studio Art instructor
George Rammell received an award
to assist with his continued research
into the uses of acrylic polymer casting -
materials. They will be used in his 57
foot grizzly bear footprint project, _
which is in process on the Olympic _
Peninsula and which will be titled 29 _
Seconds in the Life of Ursus Arctos.

Fellow instructor Marcus Bowcott
received an award to assist with the
continued development of his recent
paintings which deal with i images of
ocean-going freighters. _

Art Institute member and long-time
English instructor in the Humanities _
Division, Pierre Coupey, will put his _
grant toward the publication of a
portfolio of artist’s books comprised of |
prints and poems.

Joan Smith, also from the Art
Institute, will use her grant to continue _
developing her three dimensional caste —
paper forms and to explore the -
potential of combining these paper
forms with fired clay.

Submitted by Barry Cogswell