- AAAB2177
- Item
- 1976-01-20 [date recorded]
Part of West Coast Medical Historical Society oral history collection
CALL NUMBER: T1990:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Industrial Hygiene, Workers' Compensation Board PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Early personal history and education; job experience, potash mine; university education; work in radiation studies; getting involved with occupational health; Lake Athabasca radiation counts; working in Saskatchewan for twelve years; reasons for coming to BC; work with occupational health; came to BC in 1970; brief description of the workings of the Workers' Compensation Board; history of WCB; definition of industrial health; changes in policy toward industrial health; lack of industrial health training centres in Canada. TRACK 2: Description of present staff of Industrial Hygiene Department at WCB; problems industrial health deals with; silicosis; radiation; areas coming to the forefront for industrial hygiene; education of workers; chemical hazards in industry; noise pollution; research projects underway; how information of health hazards comes to the forefront; how concerned industry is with health hazards; the future of industrial hygiene. CALL NUMBER: T1990:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Industrial Hygiene, Workers' Compensation Board PERIOD COVERED: 1970-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Workers' Compensation Boards across Canada; parity between them and differences; industrial hygienists across Canada; how they share their experiences; fungus studies in BC; future of them; need for cross-country uniformity in work. [TRACK 2: blank?]