Alliance, We Wai Kai-Irwin Safety Alliance, HaislaIrwin Safety Alliance, and Yuuse Medic Services. Their role in these partnerships is to actively develop a qualified workforce within the local communities they collaborate with. “By working with industrial and commercial operators to understand the labour needs for upcoming projects, Irwin’s Safety takes a proactive approach in developing and executing training programs for Indigenous communities that are relative to the upcoming major projects in their regions,” says St. Martin. This empowers community members with employable skills, including emergency response capabilities like First Aid, Rescue, and Wildland Firefighting. SUCCESS STORIES A notable success story that is illustrative of Irwin’s Safety success is the “six-week Emergency Worker training program for Nisga’a Education Skills & Training (NEST) in 2020.” This program equipped Nisga’a Nation students with essential skills to become Emergency Response workers in industrial environments, with five out of six students securing 6
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