Consulting Services in
Building Use and Safety
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Benefit Cost Analysis
Benefit cost (impact assessment) issues associated with stairway usability/use and safety, an emerging issue in deliberations on new building code requirements, especially for home stairs. 22 min May 2014
Points of Control
Use of the “Points of Control” principle (used in fall prevention work) used in assessing the safety and usability of stairways. 20 min May 2014
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1.Introduction to Missteps and Falls (Part 1)
“Air Steps”
15:29 min.
Recorded at the 46th Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Ergonomists.
38 min. 2015
Recorded in Toronto, Canada, at the office of Jake Pauls, CPE March 31, 2016
“Injury Cost and Epidemiology plus Slipping Problems and Prevention”
Presented by Jake Pauls 28min
Presented by Dr. Nancy Edwards and
Dr. Alison Novak 33min
Some Introductory Thoughts
on
Creating and Implementing an Evidence
Base for Improved Built Environment
Standards and Codes
Presented by Jake Pauls, B.Arch
Certified Professional Ergonomist
39 min.
Toronto Rehabilitation’s Challenging
Environments Assessment Laboratory:
Biomechanical evidence to prevent falls
and inform environmental design
Presented by Alison Novak, PhD
Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-UHN
28 min.
Canadian data sources for the surveillance
of stair fall and bathroom-related injuries
Presented by Steven McFaull
Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention (PHAC)
Falls in Home Stairways and Bathrooms:
How Many? How Costly?
Presented by Ted Miller, PhD
Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation
40 min.
Built Environment Codes in Canada
Presented by Douglas Crawford
Chair Canadian Commission on Building and
Fire Codes
30 min.
A pre-conference workshop of Public Health ’16
June 13, 2016 Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Part 1 “Historical and Topical Introduction”
Presented by Jake Pauls
Session Moderator: James Chauvin
24 min
Part 2 “Panel Presentations”
Linda Strobl, Public Health Nurse - Injury Prevention Program, Hamilton, ON
Richard Stanwick, Chief Medical Health Officer,
Vancouver Island Health Authority
Bob Thompson, Retired Senior Codes Administrator, British Columbia
34 min
Part 3 “R. Stirling Ferguson Award 2015” &
“Panel Discussion”
38 min
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2.Introduction to Missteps and Falls (Part 2)
“Heel Scuffs, Oversteps, Slips & Trips”
23:50 min.
Jake Pauls’ CPHA2012 Pre-conference Presentation Edmonton, June 11, 2012
The Discussants
Dr. Ray Copes
Cheif, Environmental and Occupational Health/
Public Health Ontario, Toronto (ON)
Prof. Michael Moore
CEO Public Health Association of Australia and
President, World Federation of Public Health
Associations, Canberra, Australia
25 min.
Panel Discussion
35 min.
Innovative when produced in 1979, the documentary film, The Stair Event, is the only film on stair use and safety. It is based on the 1978 field study of spectators’s use of stairs at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. Intended for professional and nonprofessional audiences, it has been a major impetus for significant improvements in stair design standards in the US. Especially in new public assembly facilities having aisle stairs (in stadia, arenas, theaters, etc.), aisle handrails became the norm after about 1985 in the US—largely because of the film and its entertaining lessons for all viewers.
THE STAIR EVENT 1979 18min.
The impact of building codes and standards on public
health and safety - the challenges facing reformers
Speakers: Jim Chauvin
Peter Johnson
Ted Miller
Jake Pauls
Introductions with Presentation by Jim Chauvin 38 min
Presentation by Peter Johnson with group discussion 36 min
Presentations by Ted Miller and Jake Pauls 39 min
General Discussion 16 min
Tall Buildings
Evacuation Procedures
Expert’s meeting held in June 2017 at the office studio
of Consulting Services in Building Use and Safety
Presentation by David McColl
Senior Manager, World Wide Codes
Development at Otis Elevator Company
52 min
Presentation by Justin Francis
and Jake Pauls
55 min
Presentation by Justin Francis
and Jake Pauls
54 min
