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| WESTBANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL |
| UNSAFE CONDITIONS |
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| Below is a copy of the index page of the (WES) Westbank Elementary School WHMIS Binder which by law must be kept in each school custodian room. WHMIS is short for Workplace Hazardous Material Information System set up to provide vital information on the cleaning chemicals in an emergency. A parent of a student attending Westbank Elementary School in British Columbia Canada needs to be concerned because the WHMIS Binder was found by Custodian Fisher to have many many obsolete pages (see items highlighted in yellow and underlined in red) and many missing pages needed to save a life in case of an emergency. Also the binder had no dividers for quick access when time may be an issue. The poorly kept WHMIS Binder broke the law. The shortcomings were brought to the attention of Principal Maeve Buckley & Vice Principal Al Lalonde in Nov 1998 and Head Custodian Chris Stutter in Sept 1998. Not one of these administrators took immediate action to bring the WHMIS Binder up to legal standards. In fact Principal Buckley was more concerned with the paint colour in the gym and frayed stage curtains than the impact on students & staff the flawed WHMIS Binder pages posed. |
| Cleaning supplies no longer being used are highlighted in yellow & underlined in red. On the bottom is a list of cleaning supplies/chemicals not listed in the WHMIS Binder. This page is from Custodian Fisher's records taken Oct 1/98 noting concern. |
| Parents need to be extremely alarmed that all these chemicals had no WHMIS data sheets in the mandated by law binder in case of emergency. |
| In Oct 98 Custodian Fisher notified Principal Maeve Buckley & Vice Principal Al Lalonde who did nothing until Feb 99 |
| On Nov 30/01 it was reported that the Worker's Compensation Board found that SD #23 had an outdated health and safety policy & inadequate training records. WCB also found that SD #23 lacked provisions for regular inspection of work methods and practices and that SD #23 did not have proper supervision of it's workers. The WCB findings confirmed Fisher's concerns that removal of the full time supervisor in an effort to cut costs and place that responsibility on inadequately trained school principals would adversly affect the health and safety of students and staff. |
| More proof below that Principal Buckley was negligent in allowing young children access to poisonous chemicals |
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