🔗 Linked Evidence
Whatsapp Chats Page 1
📄 HOLAND_CLAIM_FILE_p248 | p.248
📄 HOLAND_CLAIM_FILE_p248 | p.248
📝 Extracted Text (OCR)
2025-12-04, 12:00 - Messages and calls are end-to-end encrypted. Only people in this chat can read, listen to, or share them. Learn more. 2026-01-23, 13:47 - Mark Holand: Hi Sonya. | just wanted to let you know, that if nothing is done about the noise at workstations 3, then | will no longer sit there. For my own mental and physical health, | can no longer sit there. | feel it is unfair to subject any student to the constant noise of those server racks. My ears physically hurt today, and | have had progressively worse headaches this week. If | have to, | will put a refusal for unsafe work. To subject one employee to that noise for a day, a week, a month without hearing protection is cruel. It's not in hearing protection range, but is definitely within the range where | start to where protection. Just because ambient is 55db, doesn't mean there aren't spikes approaching 85db. But, | can not wear hearing protection because | need to be able to hear the instructor. I'm a little annoyed to have even been placed in this position. Just letting you know where I'm at with this, so you are not surprised on Monday, if nothing is done. Thank you. Sorry for venting. 2026-01-23, 13:50 - Mark Holand: | mean | am annoyed to be placed in the position, that iam the one how has to complain, because it should have been immediately obvious to anyone, that the student sitting at workstation 3, would have to deal with an unacceptable level on constant noise. 2026-01-23, 14:23 - Mark Holand: And to emphasize the ridiculousness of it, | file a work refusal just to ad to the ridiculousness off it. Then each amd every student who sits at that workstations, will have to been shown my work refusal, and decided for themselves if they want to be subjected to and hindered in their studies by that noise. 2026-01-23, 14:57 - +1 (604) 445-1907: Hi Mark, Thank you for letting me know and | appreciate you being upfront about how the noise at workstation 3 has been affecting you. I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been experiencing ear pain and headaches. That’s obviously not conducive to learning and your health and ability to focus are important. | understand your frustration, especially if this feels like something that should have been identified earlier. | don’t see this as venting and | appreciate you flagging it before Monday so we're not reacting in the moment. Safety did complete sound readings at workstation 3 and found the levels to be within an acceptable range, measuring approximately 56-63 dB. | do understand that while the readings fall within acceptable limits, the constant background noise still presents challenges in a learning environment, especially given that hearing protection isn’t a practical option during instruction. Unfortunately, from an infrastructure perspective, it is not something that is easily fixed and therefore, not much can be done by Monday. My sort of solution for next week is to spend more time in the Control Room, so we are downstairs less, and for the instruction portion of it, to have you or someone else share a