Quesnel man the go-to safety man for many years

Quesnel Cariboo Observer
November 9, 2017
Category: Business & Politics
Region: Canada, Canada West

West Fraser’s Kerry Douglas was one of the winners of the BC Forest Safety Council’s 2017 Safety Award Winners for lifetime achievement in safety. The Quesnel resident won the 2017 Cary White Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award for Commitment to Safety Excellence. Douglas, who is the safety manager, West Fraser Mills Ltd., started his career almost 47 years ago when he was 15 years old.  …His peers say: “Kerry is the go-to leader for industry in mill and combustible dust safety” and tribute his safety leadership as a key reason behind much of the safety success of the Manufacturing Advisory Group (MAG), an industry group that was honoured in 2013 with a Lieutenant Governor Safety Award for Excellence in Systems Safety (multi-technology).

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