by the Editors
Another success story, this time outside the workplace! Wally England and Paul Murphy, two Compugen technical services staff on contract to Vale-Inco at the Voisey’s Bay mine site near Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, are part of the thirty-member Voisey’s Bay Mine Rescue Team. This is a group with highly developed skills in rescue, medical and environmental emergency response.
Voisey’s Bay mine
Seven members of this group, along with many other emergency response teams from across Canada, took part last summer in the Scott Firefit Championships, a competition that requires amazing physical fitness and stamina, and coordinated team effort. While undergoing special technical training at Memorial University, in St John’s, the team was identified as having the right stuff to compete in the Firefit regional event in August, 2010, in Halifax.
Their grueling preparation, including use of a simulated competition course laid out at Voisey’s Bay, helped them to a fine showing in the Industrial Firefighter Relay event in Halifax, and qualified them to compete in Brampton over the 2010 Labour Day Weekend. Against the best in Canada in Brampton, the twin teams (the Voisey’s Bay team divided into two teams for the competition) finished at 10th and 11th with team relay times overall. For information on the Firefit competition, please visit the website at www.firefit.com.
Compugen has a national technical staffing relationship with Vale-Inco, supporting their operations in Sudbury, Port Colborne, Thompson, St John’s, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Mississauga, North York and Toronto, and is proud of the commitment of its team to excellence both on the job and in their extra-curricular service activities such as seen in the work of the Voisey’s Bay Mine Rescue Team.