Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 24, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba R u Winnipeg free april 5 right to refuse stressed continued of off Page 1 under the workplace safety and health i dont think weve had More than one or two refusals Over the last few she the 500 Mona delegates at tending an annual meeting this week Are being asked to adopt position papers on various health and safety issues including As occupational waste aesthetic gases and Tuscul skeletal injuries caused by last they adopted similar positions on nurse bomb and drugs used to treat cancer All the statements emphasize a nurses right to refuse work considered dangerous or where inadequate precautions Are in place to prevent Bill Mona labor relations said the rising num Ber of health and safety issues nurses face has prompted the association to reinforce the right to refuse certain a Lack of proper equip ment and heavier workloads Are making this an increasingly Seri Ous he for he noted Back in juries Are the cause of about 75 per cent of All injuries in Nurs once nurses often face a Cycle of pain and frustration when they return to their As Well As rejection from employers or coworkers who think the nurse is trying to avoid Romphf added theres also the danger of nurses injuring their backs again and Many simply cant return to the profession for which they have been Deb Thiessen of who has been a nurse for 18 said she is a lot More careful about the amount of heavy lifting she does since injuring her Back on which put her out of work for two i just wont put myself in a position where ill be the Only person trying to turn a she but she said in these Days of healthcare cutbacks and serious it will be difficult to carry out because patients needs must come when it comes to nurse Romphf said nurses Are still being injured by patients and friends and relatives of patients despite efforts by Hospi tals and government to Deal with the we still have a problem with hospitals expecting that a certain amount of abuse goes along with being a he there Are also environmental concerns affecting nurses work ing in older he plan poses Money problem continued from Page 1 it would see six police currently assigned to beat patrols in the downtown stationed permanently at the storefront rather than rotating on business zone Mem Bers proposed the City spend to hire eight new officers to staff the storefront the Money was not included in the budget approved in despite support from the Protection Martin said the proposal has been scaled Down with the help of police chief Herb Stephen because the business members didst want to give it int All we originally but it is Martin the association said it wants a storefront office set up to help counter the Public impression that Portage Avenue is a High crime or that it is we would definitely like to Deal with problems of crime relating to youth particularly Martin Bob Douglas Grants Mill chairman of the Protection said he thinks the storefront program is a Good the problem is the extra Money in the City Douglas its not that the project int Wor the problem is that we got into a very difficult financial the committee delayed a decision on the proposal again yesterday until it receives a report from Stephen on the but Stephen told the committee he supports the proposal in i know theres a problem Down that Why we have six offi cers dedicated to that he you dont have a heavy volume of crime Down but you have so Many people who come into that area and theres a perception that theres a lot of there Are three storefront police offices in operation already in Winnipeg and there Are four offices in fort Garry for the Community based policing Pilot John Prystanski Point Douglas said the City has to deter mine which areas Are priorities for further storefront police offices if the project is going to be Contin Prystanski has been trying to win councillors support for a storefront police office in the Point Doug Las which has a higher crime Larry Fleisher Assiniboine Park said he opposes the idea of a group with Money being Able to buy its own police in opposed to people paying extra to get More said he Doest oppose the business association helping pay the the Money would be used for such expenses As property Utility payments and hiring a not paying the salaries of police offi Community based policing is that Way the Community gets in Stephen said it is important to the organization that approval be granted As soon As possible because a youth outreach program set up by the association will begin on a trial basis in is not going to be completely successful without the he told the we think one is compromising the other if it is cf18 review unlikely to affect Portage base Mcknight says continued from Page 1 defence minister Bill Mcknight said the review of training should not affect the Portage he said the review is centred on cf18 Pilot training at higher but a political source confirmed it could be More politically difficult to 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training and operational procedures May officials suggest he could Call for the program to be in the Mcknight suspended All operational training flights while a Tiger team of Squadron fighter command experts and government officials examine Jet fighter training the group is expected to report their findings tomorrow Mcknight promised to make the recommendations Public and re fused to Rule out extending a 48hour ban on operational training Mcknight admitted the govern ment is at a loss to explain the recent since there have been 12 cf18 crashes killing seven pilots and destroying 11 of the we cannot find a he told if we could find some thing that was consistent we would be Able to address the defence department has Dis counted mechanical problems with the sophisticated Mcknight said the aircraft will not receive any special safety compared to other nato Mcknight said Canadian aviators Fly More hours and receive better train he said pilots Fly about 240 hours a Mcknight acknowledged 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