Arcand Recognized For Dedication to TruckSafe
By 250 News
Thursday, April 26, 2007 03:57 AM
MaryAnne Arcand receives the ILA’s Member of the Year Award from the ILA’s general manager, Wayne Lintott. (Photo courtesy of Garet Tanner).
To some in the forest industry she is known as "bulldozer" or "dozer" because she doesn’t let anything stand in her way. She is MaryAnne Arcand, and she has worked relentlessly on spreading the word that "unsafe is unacceptable."
The Interior Logging Association has recognized her hard work by naming her the Interior Logging Association’s Member of the Year.
Arcand says she was shocked when she received the award. “I’m not the only one doing things,” says Arcand. “The entire Council is just as determined as I am to make a difference and everyone is working their tails off.”
In the past year and a half she has travelled to every logging community in the province, held over 60 meetings and spoke at over a dozen conferences. She has also met with over 6,000 workers and their families teaching them about safe practices and responding to issues and their concerns.
Wayne Lintott, general manager of the ILA, says Arcand deserves the award because she puts her heart into her work. “She’s made a tremendous difference in our industry,” says Lintott. “MaryAnne’s brought log haulers closer to contractors and licensees, and opened up the lines of communication.”
In 2006, the Council and Arcand helped to implement the first radio campaign targeted at drivers to encourage them to share the road and drive safely. They also began working on a joint-industry strategy for resource road management, adopting vehicle identification plates for trucks and managing technical development work on steep-slope hauling standards.
Arcand plans on continuing these initiatives through 2007 while also focusing on a few other major projects. Two of these projects include initiating the development of a log truck driver certification program and working actively with the Council to launch the SAFE Companies program for independent operators.
Arcand says the key to her job is meeting people in their communities and helping them to believe in safe practices. “This is how it has to be done,” says Arcand. “Bureaucratic solutions don’t work on the ground.”
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