b'Ron Hambley Sean Scott Kelly Wallace Andrea HohneModerator Panelist Panelist PanelistPresident, Executive DirectorVice President and District Manager B.Sc., B.Tech., CPHI(c)Winnipeg Construction Association Construction Safety Association PCL Constructors Canada Inc.Occupational Hygienistof Manitoba Workplace Safety and HealthPREPARING FOR THE WORSTPCL provides key insight during WCA-hosted forumBy Kelly ParkerManitobas COVID-19 case numberstypically try to keep our sites very are increasing, pushing the provinceclean and safe, so I think the workers into Code Red on the Pandemichad a good comfort level to start, Response System. The full effect ofand we could really focus on over-the pandemic has finally reached acommunicating what the plan was province that, up until recently, hasgoing to be. We quickly pivoted been relatively unaffected, and atto a regular daily touch point with time of writing Manitoba now ranksall of our superintendents and our the highest for active cases persenior management team to give 100,000 people. In the meantime, thethem updated information. With the construction business must carry on.situation evolving so quickly, PCL also In a time when operational control isimplemented a daily update routine most tenuous, its more important thanwith all of its VPs across Canada to ever to take the proper precautionsshare lessons learned from provinceand prepare for the worst.to province. In late October, WCA President RonAlthough the firm was lucky to have Hambley moderated an industry forumfew positive cases on its sites, PCL featuring Andrea Hohne, OccupationalKelly Wallace, Vice President and District Manager, made sure to have a firm course of Hygienist with Workplace Safety andPCL Constructors Canada Inc. action if such a situation arose. The Health, Sean Scott, Executive Directorcompany created a decision tree at of the Construction Safety Associationwas on, but valuable lessons havethe executive level, so that when there of Manitoba, and Kelly Wallace, VP andsince been learned. Wallace says thatwas a presumptive case on-site, the District Manager at PCL Constructorsroughly 50 per cent of PCLs projectsVPs took the call directly from their Inc. (Toronto). While Hohne and Scottwere shut down initially, and at thesuperintendents to listen in to the provided information from a healthtime, the fire hose of informationanxiety level, listen to their concerns and safety perspective, with valuablecoming from the media and healthand try to address them on a case-resources available for the industry,authorities was one of the greatestby-case basis, but also to provide Wallace offered boots-on-the-groundchallenges. On operational sites, heconsistency across the country where insight into what PCL has learned andsays, You have a bunch of front-linepossible based on what the different how construction firms can be readysupervisors and superintendentshealth regions were telling us,for a COVID-19 outbreak. who are trying to navigate all of thisWallace explains. When the pandemic hit, the world wasinformation and trying to help curbSoon, of course, the so-called new caught flat-footed and the scramblethe anxiety of all of the workers. Wenormal became more routine and 22 BUILD MANITOBAwinnipegconstruction.ca'