Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a part of the uniform members at 14 Wing Greenwood use every day.
During a 2023 safety walk around sections within 14 Air Maintenance Squadron, Corporal Janet Leblanc (deputy unit general safety officer) identified a lack of signage needed to identify PPE required for specific machinery. Leblanc proactively took it upon herself to work with the squadron’s general safety team to appropriately fix this issue.
The general safety representatives from each section gathered the PPE requirements for every machine in their workplace. Based off this information, the appropriate signage was ordered, and 14 AMS’ ACS shop was tasked to print the required health and safety symbols. The new 14 AMS PPE signs were then organized and assembled by Leblanc, and placed on all 60 machines within the affected shops by their section’s general safety representatives. Engine Bay was the first section to put up all its signage, with the rest following soon after.
From the start of this project in the summer of 2023, the goal was to always ensure that all who entered the workspace were informed of the equipment required to keep them safe while doing their work. The project was completed in April 2024, thanks to the hard work of the 14 AMS general safety team.
Having completed this project, the 14 AMS general safety team would like to take this opportunity to challenge all general safety sections on the base to follow its lead and complete similar projects in their workspaces.
14 Air Maintenance Squadron’s deputy unit general safety officer Corporal Janet Leblanc displays the range of signage developed to highlight the squadron’s personal protective equipment standards for 60 different machines.
Corporal James Crewe works in 14 Air Maintenance Squadron’s Engine Bay, the first 14 AMS section to fully update and place personal protective equipment signage in its workspace in a recent safety overhaul.
