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M A K I N G C O N N E C T I O N S Doing our part in the community M At HIAA, being connected matters. We mean that in the widest possible sense of the word: connected to the world’s airports, connected to our tenants and staff, connected to the 5,400 people who work in and around Halifax Stanfield International Airport. We also mean being connected to the broader Nova Scotia community – a link we value on so many levels. HIAA employees, for starters, are active community participants and fundraisers. In 2006, they raised over $13,000 for the United Way, entered a team in the annual Manulife Dragon Boat Festival raising almost $4,200 for amateur sport in Nova Scotia, and donated over $1,000 worth of school supplies and food to the Parker Street Food & Furniture Bank. 10
What’s more, HIAA supported over 200 organizations with almost $100,000 in corporate donations, as well as promotional items and public display space. Our Humanities Fund is another way we provide community support. Developed through the collective agreement process between HIAA and the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees Local 80829, this fund was created to help meet basic needs in the community. Union members contribute $.01 for each hour worked, and HIAA doubles that contribution. In 2006, taking its lead from employee suggestions, the fund distributed $7,000 to six organizations: the Emily Fund, for the purchase of insulin pumps; Alcare Place, to help people with addictions; Habitat for Humanity, to purchase building supplies; the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Building Bridges Program, to help those suffering from mental illness; Ark, to help feed the homeless; and the Pictou County Early Intervention Program, to assist children with special needs. We also get out into the community with our parade float. In 2006, many of our volunteers and employees and their families walked and waved in the Apple Blossom Festival parade, the Halifax-Dartmouth Natal Day parade, the Halifax Holiday Parade of Lights, and the Truro Santa Claus Parade. Like the rest of the world, we’re going green – and giving support to environmental initiatives. HIAA provided the Nature Conservancy of Canada with a contribution to help with the acquisition and stewardship of a parcel of land in the Musquodoboit Harbour area. As an important place for migratory birds to fuel up between flights, that’s a cause close to our heart. We’re also pleased that the Southern Twayblade (Listera australis), an exceedingly rare Nova Scotia orchid, continues to thrive at HSIA. In 2006, more of those plants grew on our lands than ever before in recorded history. We are always striving to make the airport a safer, healthier place to work. A 21 per cent decline in time lost because of workplace accidents in 2006 indicates that all the hard work is paying off. We’re determined to enhance that record, placing a strong emphasis on improving existing programs and developing new ones to reduce the accident rate even further. We commissioned an audit in 2006 to see how our occupational health and safety programs stack up against OHS standards elsewhere. Based on early results, we’ve started working on improvements in many areas, including hazard reporting and health and safety training. Our aim, after all, is unwavering: to make travellers, visitors and workers as safe as possible. In March we launched iWatch – our unique and award-winning program designed to increase awareness of security threats and to encourage members of the airport community to report suspicious activity. Results for the first year showed a four-fold increase in reports to security from employees throughout the airport community – everyone from cleaners to contractors, retailers to ramp workers. The program was recognized with two honours – an award of merit from the Canadian Public Relations Society (Nova Scotia) Inc. and first place in the Public Relations category of the Airports Council International - North America’s 2006 Excellence in Marketing and Communications Contest. We shored up security in other ways too: increased policing within the new preclearance facility and greater scrutiny of HIAA buildings and grounds outside the terminal. One big change: a new system that uses biometric scans (retina and figerprint) to gain access to secure areas throughout the airport. Futuristic stuff, even if the goal – doing everything in our power to be a good community partner – is a decidedly old-fashioned one. H A L I F A X I N T E R N A T I O N A L A I R P O R T A U T H O R I T Y 2 0 0 6 A N N U A L R E P O R T 11
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