News

At a ceremony in Ottawa last evening, Derwin Clille, our plant superintendent in Jean Marie River, received an Electricity Canada Lifesaving Award.

Derwin attended the scene of a house fire in JMR last August and discovered an elderly person trapped in the burning house. Derwin grabbed a ladder and took it to the window and rescued the elder out of the burning house, saving his life. A copy of the news release issued by Electricity Canada can be found at this link.  

Congratulations and thank you Derwin for your heroic actions from all of us at NTPC.

Thermal Training Block in Yellowknife held from Oct 30-Nov 4. Even though our Delta boys got hung up In Inuvik for a few extra days due to bad weather - HSE was still able to pull off a successful training block.

They were able to accomplish:

• Qualified Electrical Worker by Shermco
• First Aid Training by Artic Response
• Hot Glove Training
• Fire Extinguisher Training and evaluation
• Online Drug and Alcohol Training
• Breaker Training with a practical evaluation by Shawn Brennan
• Fuse Replacement Training and Practical evaluation by Brent Kaglik and Connor Flemming
• Electrical Meter demonstration – Installation and removal of meter from meter base by Evan Smith
• Site tour of Jackfish by Norm McBride
• Audiometric Testing by 62 Degrees North Special

Thanks to:

• the participants for attending and making training fun
• Amanda Tybring and Michelle Paul for organizing and doing the bookings for the training block
• Shawn Brennan and Norm McBride and Jackfish Power Station (provided breaker training and tour)
• Brent Kaglik, Connor Flemming (provided fuse training and evaluation)
• Evan Smith (meter demonstration)
• Darren Squirrel and Joel Hanthorn (providing support for the training block)
• Belinda and Michelle for hosting a successful pizza and Bowling.
• Monica Carbajal providing HR support and helping get everyone set up on the computers
• Goodman Ndlovu for setting up all the computers and getting everyone signed in
• Erin Ladouceur and her ladies for letting us use your space when we needed.

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If you have any questions, comments or concerns, send us a message anytime at the well-being committee mailing list or at [email protected]

We are asking all NTPC employees to complete the Guarding Minds at Work Survey between October 21st and November 8th, 2024. Your feedback is important to help guide our next steps as we continue to implement The National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety (The Standard). 

Since the last time we ran this survey in 2021, we have done a lot of work to increase awareness of what psychological safety is and how we all contribute. We have developed You Matter at NTPC, and updated connected policies and processes that commit to a physically AND psychologically safe workplace. 

Now, we need to hear from you again to continue our journey. 

Please take 15-20 minutes to complete the survey before Friday.

Link: http://www.guardingmindsatwork.ca/employee-survey/6711655e853f76711655e853f8

All answers are anonymous, and we will only use aggregate results to inform our next steps.