Town recognized for excellence in safety

Shannon LeClair

Times Reporter

 

The Town of Strathmore has been an accredited agency under the Safety Codes Act for 15 years and recently received its first Municipal Safety Recognition Award.   

“The award started in 2003 and it’s to recognize excellence in the permitting process under the safety codes act. So this year the Town of Strathmore was being recognized for our compliance monitoring and permitting process,” said Linda Nelson, Strathmore’s Deputy Chief Administrative Officer. 

The town has a quality management plan, which describes how the permitting process should be implemented and how to ensure the permits are being followed up, deficiencies are being corrected, the permit is actually being inspected and there are no deficiencies and no life safety issues. 

“In about 1998 Harry Salm and I set up this monitoring system, and we’ve been using it ever since,” said Nelson. 

Salm was the development officer at the time they set up the monitoring system, and Nelson said he is now employed with the Town as a building inspector. 

Every two years the town is audited for compliance monitoring and Nelson said they have been getting 100 per cent every year on their process. She said many people come to Strathmore and job shadow to learn how to do the process. 

“It’s kind of a neat thing to finally get recognized for that,” said Nelson.

“It means that the systems that we have in place for compliance monitoring are working very, very well.”