Congratulations to our colleagues (pictured from left to right) François Bergeron, Stéphanie Lafrenière, François Dubois and Éric Bouchard, who are the winners of the 2019 Michel Létourneau Award that is presented annually by Agnico Eagle, our partner along with Yamana Gold. The award recognizes outstanding environmental achievements, among others, across all of Agnico Eagle’s sites in Canada, Finland and Mexico. Our colleagues were recognized for their work to protect bank swallows that had excavated nesting burrows in a borrow pit used for the tailings pond. Bank swallows, a protected species in Canada, nest in burrows in settings where there are vertical faces in silt and sand deposits. Borrow pit use was subsequently modified to protect the nesting burrows and encourage the bank swallows to return each year. Congratulations for this biodiversity conservation effort!
The QMA’s 55th annual Health and Safety Symposium, held on September 17, 2019, honoured 13 CMM employees with a recognition award for their efforts and those of their teams to achieve between 50,000 and 550,000 consecutive hours without a lost-time accident.
CMM won 3rd place in the “Innovation – Large Business” category at the 14th Gala national des Grands Prix santé et sécurité du travail (national OHS grand prize gala) held at the Québec City Convention Centre on April 30, 2019, for its rolling warehouse ladder with a hoist attachment. This innovative project reduces the risk of falls for warehouse workers.
