​The former Kelsey Trail Regional Health Authority took action to ensure that asbestos containing material has been contained and is not a risk to employees and public.

Assessments were completed for the majority of the former Kelsey Trail Health Region health care facilities.  Facilities that have been assessed have facility maps which highlight locations of asbestos material.  Identified sources are also clearly marked as containing asbestos.  If repair work is required in areas containing asbestos, appropriate agencies are contracted for safe removal.

 

Assessments have been completed in the following facilities:

  • Arborfield & District Health Care Centre
  • Carrot River Health Centre
  • Chateau Providence
  • Hudson Bay Health Care Facility
  • Kelvindell Lodge
  • Kelvington Hospital
  • Melfort Hospital
  • Newmarket Manor
  • Nipawin Hospital
  • Nirvana Assisted Living
  • Parkland Place
  • Pineview Lodge
  • Porcupine Carragana Hospital
  • Red Deer Nursing Home
  • Rose Valley Health Centre
  • Sasko Park Lodge
  • Smeaton Health Centre
  • Tisdale Hospital.
 

The following facilities do not contain asbestos: 

  • Arborfield & District Health Care Centre
  • Chateau Providence
  • Rose Valley Health Care
  • Newmarket Manor
  • Nipawin Hospital
  • Pineview Lodge
  • Smeaton Health Car Centre and Parkland Place.

The following facilities contain asbestos:

  • Melfort Hospital
  • Nirvana Assisted Living
  • Carrot River Health Centre
  • Porcupine Carragana Hospital
  • Red Deer Nursing Home
  • Kelvindell Lodge
  • Kelvington Hospital
  • Sasko Park Lodge
  • Tisdale Hospital
  • Hudson Bay Health Care Facility.
  • ** All areas containing Asbestos are clearly identified by signage indicating “Caution this area contains Asbestos”.

The focus of existing Occupational Health & Safety legislation is that building owners, employers and contractors manage asbestos-containing material in a building so that it does not release fibres. Most buildings constructed prior to 1980 contain some asbestos and this does not pose a risk as long as the materials are kept in good condition and otherwise managed to ensure that the materials do not release fibres.  Individuals should not assume they are at risk because a building contains asbestos.  Asbestos does not present a risk when it is encapsulated, bound or otherwise contained in structural materials and kept in good repair in a way that it does not release fibres.

A person is not normally or necessarily exposed to asbestos if they work in a building listed on the registry. Even occupations that do work that requires the disturbance of asbestos-containing materials have been using strict control measures since the early 1980s to prevent their exposure to asbestos fibres.

Type
  
Name
  
Folder: Asbestos
  
Folder: No Asbestos