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share professionals theirexperiences in fulfillingthe newoperational from requirement BC WorkSafe Lee Usher Operations Manager TLH Heliskiing Ltd' \\rriting a \\rorkSafe BC Avalanche Safetl- Plan (ASP) for TLH Heliskiing has been an interesting process. It comes at a time of considerable change and adjustment to market conditions, as well as the Olympic influences affecting our operatlon. The process started with the seasonal review of our guidelines for mountain safety and helicopter skiing and our Incident Action P1an. These were edited to reflect the context of the 201O season and to incorPorate the Incident Command

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this was done, the ASP was built around the framework of the HeliCat Canada template. Eight Years of exPerience in the and with this comPanY has

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spend time and money researching the company details. I can imagine that this aspect wouid be the most expensive part if one had to outsource the process' Writing the ASP was straightforward enough. It seemed like I was producing an executive summary, and it required me to objectively look at our program from the perspective of a WSBC officer looking in. The officer's review of the document will be the test to see how it stands up to the WSBC mandate and the apparent "no tolerance" attitude towards employee exposure to hazard' The promise of an "educative" attitude to initial reviews will do a 1ot to support the development of this ASP as a useful docllment.

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