Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act

In compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, Humber College continues to promote a barrier-free learning, living and working environment. Under the AODA, Humber College is required to provide individualized workplace emergency response information to employees who have a disability.

How to Develop Individual Workplace Emergency Response Information

Managers should consult with employees who have disabilities, so that the individualized workplace emergency response information meets the employees’ needs. This is because the AODA requires Humber to be prepared for the specific needs that employees with disabilities may have in emergency situations, such as: fire; power outages; severe weather; natural disasters; security incidents and any other circumstance in which an employee may require assistance when evacuating the workplace in emergencies.

Humber is also required to review the individualized workplace emergency response information to make sure it remains effective and up-to-date.

How might Humber be made aware of the need to provide individualized workplace emergency response information?

1. A new employee may have requested accommodations during the recruitment process.
2. An existing employee tells their manager that they have a disability.
3. An existing employee develops a temporary disability such as a broken leg.

Documenting Individualized Workplace Emergency Response Information

If an employee has an individual accommodation plan, then the individualized workplace emergency response information provided to the employee should be included in the plan.

Thank you for ensuring Humber’s compliance with the AODA

For more information about the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act contact or the Workplace Emergency Response Information template, please contact Jodie Glean, Manager, Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity at jodie.glean@humber.ca or 416.675.6622 x5685.

Due to the absence of reading week this year, we are pleased to announce that one day in "the near future" will be dedicated to the appreciation of Support Staff employees.

Our Support Staff committee is already in the planning stages. Stay tuned for further details!

Textbooks for Change is excited to announce our first annual Bookstruction event at the Lakeshore Campus!

What is Bookstruction?

Teams of 4-6 people associated with Humber College will build a structure from textbooks that they have fundraised from the community. Teams will collect donations of textbooks from their community and design and build a structure from these textbooks. These textbooks will then be collected by Textbooks for Change so we can continue to work on our goal of improving the educational landscape around the world!

The Bookstruction competition is open to students, staff and faculty of Humber College.

• Register between February 26 and March 9
• Teams will have between March 10 and 21 to submit number of textbooks raised
• Photos and structures must be uploaded to Facebook by March 21 at 9 a.m. 
• Voting will happen from March 21 from 10 a.m. to March 25 at 12 p.m.
• Winners announced at a film screening on Monday, March 26

To find out about registering a team, please email our lead ambassador Kara at karaseguin3@gmail.com.

The Program invites all off Ontario colleges and universities to submit research proposals in topics related to highway infrastructure engineering, and to interactions of infrastructure with road safety, policy and planning, investment decisions, and environmental sustainability.

Detailed information about the terms of reference, topics and application procedures is attached. Topics of special interest to the Ministry are listed in the Program Guide, but applications will be considered for any topic related to highway infrastructure management. 

Contact for any questions regarding the funding program or the topics:

Max Perchanok
Coordinator for Innovation and Sustainability
Provincial Highways Management Division
Ontario Ministry of Transportation
416.235.4680  905.704.3998

Attachments

•  HIIFP 2018 Program Guide  (including Attachment A)
•  Attachment B – Application Form
•  Attachment C – Research Proposal Summary
•  Attachment D – Budget Summary (1 page required per year)
•  Attachment E – Progress Report Template (required annually of multi-year projects)
•  Attachment F – Technical Style Manual

Humber Application Deadline: Friday March 2, 2018

If you are interested in applying for this funding opportunity or if you would like more information about Applied Research & Innovation opportunities at Humber, please contact:

Crystal Williams
Program Manager, Applied Research & Innovation
crystal.williams@humber.ca