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Thursday, 25 April 2019
Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Horrific incident in Ottawa
It was a shocking incident in Ottawa. The city came together, though. Some are trying nail the driver, but we have to let them investigate and help victims heal in the present moment.
Ottawa will be feeling this incident for a long time. It was a massive response to a tragedy. Ottawa Hospitals went Code Orange, pulling in extra staff, shutting down elective surgeries, calling other hospitals for extra equipment. It worked well. Much co-operation. First Responders are amazing. There were 90 passengers on the bus, with 3 dead, and 23 injured.
This young woman had her leg amputated, and she is in a medically-induced coma. One of our contractors knows a victim. His family went over to the victim's family home to help out. It sends a ripple of shock out into the community. Ottawans are amazing, too. People stood at bus stops with signs and kids with drawings, to help let both commuters and bus drivers know they are brave to carry on.
They rehearse a Code Orange. The last one was in November. They warn staff, pull in everyone from surgeons to social workers. The social workers meet the patients at the door, asking to call family members, or looking for IDs. The nurses set up IVs, patients were sent to the OR within 10 minutes.
Doctors and nurses converged on the emergency department. Hébert and Lampron, the trauma director who was now back at the hospital, organized the arriving staff into eight trauma teams, each of which featured two or three nurses, a respiratory therapist, an anesthetist, an emergency physician, a trauma resident, an orthopedic surgeon, a vascular surgeon and a trauma team leader. (The hospital normally has one such trauma team in operation.)
The hospital received seven patients with severe injuries, which included internal damage, head trauma, torn arteries and multiple fractures of the pelvis and limbs. Some limbs were mangled.
UPDATES:
'Just incredible': Community rallies around Ottawa bus crash survivor with Down syndrome
The Good Samaritan stories begin to pour out from Ottawa. A young woman, with Down Syndrome, was sitting in priority seating in the front of the bus. She had to walk past those ejected from the bus, as well as wounded. Another victim took her under her wing. This gave her something to do, they said in the news. A neighbour brought the family dinner. It has a city-wide impact, but the helpers are there to be found.
Ottawa will be feeling this incident for a long time. It was a massive response to a tragedy. Ottawa Hospitals went Code Orange, pulling in extra staff, shutting down elective surgeries, calling other hospitals for extra equipment. It worked well. Much co-operation. First Responders are amazing. There were 90 passengers on the bus, with 3 dead, and 23 injured.
ICYMI: Ottawa police have released driver pending further investigation after Friday's horrific crash of OC Transpo double-decker bus that left 3 dead, 23 others injured https://t.co/o7VL9TANoc
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) January 12, 2019This young woman had her leg amputated, and she is in a medically-induced coma. One of our contractors knows a victim. His family went over to the victim's family home to help out. It sends a ripple of shock out into the community. Ottawans are amazing, too. People stood at bus stops with signs and kids with drawings, to help let both commuters and bus drivers know they are brave to carry on.
The last Code Orange was in 2013, when a bus drove into a train.Code Orange— Francis Bakewell (@BakewellMD) January 14, 2019
In-depth description of the enormous effort the entire @OttawaHospital put into caring for the victims of Friday’s bus crash. Kudos all round. Proud to call you all colleagues.
They rehearse a Code Orange. The last one was in November. They warn staff, pull in everyone from surgeons to social workers. The social workers meet the patients at the door, asking to call family members, or looking for IDs. The nurses set up IVs, patients were sent to the OR within 10 minutes.
Doctors and nurses converged on the emergency department. Hébert and Lampron, the trauma director who was now back at the hospital, organized the arriving staff into eight trauma teams, each of which featured two or three nurses, a respiratory therapist, an anesthetist, an emergency physician, a trauma resident, an orthopedic surgeon, a vascular surgeon and a trauma team leader. (The hospital normally has one such trauma team in operation.)
The hospital received seven patients with severe injuries, which included internal damage, head trauma, torn arteries and multiple fractures of the pelvis and limbs. Some limbs were mangled.
MEDIA: Fatalities in Ottawa double-decker bus crash, with multiple injuries.— OntarioParamedic.ca (@OntParamedic) January 12, 2019
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau & Ontario Premier Doug Ford send condolences and thoughts to victims and families with thanks to all first responders. https://t.co/w2IK2KQUw7 https://t.co/5zvpiomSMA pic.twitter.com/09QZAO7hlN
Ottawa Hospital also said Sunday that victims of the crash who were previously in critical condition had been moved to serious condition.https://t.co/cvLUHaIhzI— Globalnews.ca (@globalnews) January 14, 2019
On Dec. 10 Diallo was driving bus that collided with another bus, was sent to retraining, back on the road within the month. Diallo, a bus driver for less than a year, remains on probation https://t.co/e93lfYqQoe #ottnews— Shaamini Yogaretnam (@shaaminiwhy) January 14, 2019
It's OK to not be OK: Bus crash takes its toll . https://t.co/cbdv05GxnZ pic.twitter.com/Y88EKuBB3l— Ottawa Citizen (@OttawaCitizen) January 15, 2019
What do I take from this?
The health care system isn't 'broken', as many claim. There are many people around to help at the time. We are short personal support workers for home care; we are short nurses. We could use more staff, but those who work in emergency services are amazing. There were 6 surgeons working at the same time during this crisis. The day staff stayed on and the night shift came on duty.UPDATES:
The Good Samaritan stories begin to pour out from Ottawa. A young woman, with Down Syndrome, was sitting in priority seating in the front of the bus. She had to walk past those ejected from the bus, as well as wounded. Another victim took her under her wing. This gave her something to do, they said in the news. A neighbour brought the family dinner. It has a city-wide impact, but the helpers are there to be found.
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| Many were injured, like this man |
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- ‘We’re all neighbours together’: Condolences book for Ottawa bus crash draws residents to city hall
- Code Orange: The Ottawa Hospital’s response to the OC Transpo bus crash
- Bus driver in Friday’s crash alleged to have been in another collision days before
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Saturday, 19 November 2011
Who is the best person for whom you have worked?
I love the Pike Place Fish Market, in Seattle. They do so much for employees.
I drove the car the hour and a half into the big city, the Otto Subaru dealership, in Westboro Village, for a tune-up. Winter approacheth. Surely.
They told me it would be 5 hours for this big tune-up.
I took myself off for breakfast, as I had arrived at the dealership for 9:03 a.m.. left the house at 7:30! I went to Westport Newboro. It was delicious, and held me till dinner. Wireless internet, and the Elvis Sighting Society memorabilia were great.
When I returned, lo, and behold. A team-building art project for the holiday season.
This is so funny. All were having a grand time. I've seen art created by Huntsville's famous Napster, who paints with his tail. This could be fun, too.
Otto Subaru, they tell me, is owned by mother/daughter, Hugette, who inherited it after Otto passed away in 1998. Ken drove me to my daughter/s-i-l's house, where we did an art project of our own.
Ken told me that this is a fabulous place to work, where they work hard and play hard, and where lessons in humanity have been learned. I've certainly been the victim of bullying in the workplace, I understand the negative impact of it all.
Here is Ottawa, ALUnion #279 is busy telling OCTranso riders not to do a 'witch hunt', looking for driver errors, while they ought to be telling drivers to be respectful, to do their jobs well. They have no right to tell the public what to do or not do. They must be counselling their employee to drive as if everyone in watching (because they are!), treat passengers with dignity and respect, and if you are facing more stress than you can handle, seek some support. The union needs to step up and step in. The strident unions of the past must change their stripes. Union members now have more than fair wages, pensions, wellness plans, sick leave, and this attitude must stop. Full stop.
Rather than alienating passengers the union should be uniting its drivers. (You can read more about the whole thing here!)
I drove the car the hour and a half into the big city, the Otto Subaru dealership, in Westboro Village, for a tune-up. Winter approacheth. Surely.
They told me it would be 5 hours for this big tune-up.
When I returned, lo, and behold. A team-building art project for the holiday season.
This is so funny. All were having a grand time. I've seen art created by Huntsville's famous Napster, who paints with his tail. This could be fun, too.
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| wall photo: In memory of Otto, 'our driving force', (1937 - 1998). |
Ken told me that this is a fabulous place to work, where they work hard and play hard, and where lessons in humanity have been learned. I've certainly been the victim of bullying in the workplace, I understand the negative impact of it all.
Here is Ottawa, ALUnion #279 is busy telling OCTranso riders not to do a 'witch hunt', looking for driver errors, while they ought to be telling drivers to be respectful, to do their jobs well. They have no right to tell the public what to do or not do. They must be counselling their employee to drive as if everyone in watching (because they are!), treat passengers with dignity and respect, and if you are facing more stress than you can handle, seek some support. The union needs to step up and step in. The strident unions of the past must change their stripes. Union members now have more than fair wages, pensions, wellness plans, sick leave, and this attitude must stop. Full stop.
Rather than alienating passengers the union should be uniting its drivers. (You can read more about the whole thing here!)
OCTranspo is in the business of safely transporting its citizens, funded by Ottawa taxpayers, dealing with passenger needs fairly, treating drivers fairly, preventing disasters; like the singing bus driver, the swearing bus driver, and when drivers take out their frustration and anger on passengers we all suffer.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
OCTranspo - public transportation scandal
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| Paris subway, 2008 |
A driver yells, harasses a passenger, bullies them, calls them names.
This situation was appalling.
A young, mildy autistic man, was verbally abused by a driver. Another passenger videotaped part of the event on his phone.
I was riding the 96 back to Kanata from downtown Ottawa and it's just me, a 20 something male, and the bus driver. During the bus ride I had my...
It was an awful situation.
Now, I can understand that there are passengers who are a pain-in-the-ass. I grew up in Toronto and took the subway to school. I've seen people in public. They can be idiots.
I've had a man sexually touch me, then leap off of the train. It gives me the creeps now, 40 years later.
But this situation should have been prevented.
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| Toronto Streetcar |
OC union brushes off irate driver video
I am disappointed, on 2nd thought, that he was fired. ATU 279 could have prevented this by intervening with this driver if he had emotional issues, or mental health stress. The message is that he was facing grief issues, his wife and mother both died in the past year. Instead, they now have to go through an expensive appeal process.
I know stress from grief. I moved and found a new job, near to my failing parents, 6 weeks later Mom died, dad's brain tumour returned. Under absence management I took leave and got help. My employer did not suggest help. My boss, not a leader but a demanding witchy principal, did not recognize my grief issues until employee absence management kicked in and they got me some counselling. Grief and depression are intertwined. The union should have been involved in the beginning. But these are not the professionals.
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| School bus message! |
Not giving the driver 'punishment', but discipline and consequences. Apology to the passenger, admission of guilt, and, finally, conflict resolution would have gone a long way to changing the situation. Instead, the union is in denial. It is shameful. Unions have had their place, but it is time that they evolve from win/lose to resolution, prevention.
We know how to help people under stress. Employers must recognize that such employees are under stress and prevent things getting to this point.
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| Tour bus |
"Unjust termination", he suggests. It was just. He had no business treating this young man like that. Everyone responsible must step up.
New video posting of driver on cell phone while drivinghttp://cot.ag/thDoiK
Head of union representing
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