The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation president and CEO is grateful to have industrial partners that don’t contribute to the hospital’s emergency room – the busiest in the province.
Resolute Forest Products celebrated 250,000 hours without a recordable injury in their Thunder Bay woodlands operation Thursday by donating $5,000 to the Northern Cancer Fund.
The employees selected the charity the donation would go to and Foundation president and CEO Glenn Craig it feels good to have that support in the community. “It’s really an endorsement of the work we’re doing at the cancer program and the health sciences centre,” he said, adding seemingly smaller donations do add up to make a difference. “Cancer care is very expensive, but for $5,000 you can buy a new IV pump that is going to help to deliver vital chemotherapy,” Craig said.
Safety coordinator Rainer Prager the Northern Cancer Fund was voted on by the employees and chosen because cancer has affected people at the sawmill.
The health and safety committee received a Board of Directors Award for the accomplishment and Prager said it’s a significant achievement for all the employees. “It says everybody knows safety is job No. 1 in the work world,” he said.
Ideally, Prager said he’d like to see the sawmill go injury free indefinitely. “We don’t want to see anybody go home injured,” he said. “You want to make sure when the workers go out to work, they also come home to their loved ones injury free.”
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