Target: Safety Advisor, Operations & Maintenance or equivalent. Timing: 2028 — aligned with
Broadway Extension operational launch and OCC2 fully online.

Employment structure: Temporary OHS placement with Guideway Serviceperson as
union-protected fallback position. This structure maintains collective agreement protection while
building OHS experience. Mark will not surrender union protection to become a target in the
same department whose safety failures caused this injury.

WHY THiS PLAN MAKES SENSE

Field Knowledge — A Veteran of Heavy Industry

Most Occupational Health and Safety professionals are young, with little or no heavy industry
experience. They learn safety from textbooks. They learn what the regulations say. They have
never stood on mainline track.

Mark Holand is a 25-year veteran of dangerous industries — manufacturing, telecom, and 19
years in rail. He has operated one of the most vital links in the Canadian rail system — the New
Westminster Rail Bridge, a swing bridge over the Fraser River with a replacement value in the
billions. He has driven $4,000,000 SkyTrains. Operated equipment on mainline track.
Decommissioned Wayside Inspection Systems. Worked in signals. Worked in bridge tending.

The gap between textbook OHS and field OHS is enormous. Mark has lived on both sides of it.

The Broken Rail — Pattern Recognition Under Pressure

During a shift as signal maintainer, Mark was working at a switch call at McLeod Control Point
near New Hazelton BC when a report came in of a block down between control points, six miles
away at Carnaby. Mark was told to attend when he finished at the switch. Some time later, the
call desk phoned back and said not to bother — the block had picked back up.

Mark said OK — as he was a newer maintainer. But then the thought would not rest.
|‘Blocks don’t just drop and pick back up. There has to be a reason. | must find out why.”

He attended the site anyway. He did not have to go far. He found an impassable rail break,
sitting over a metal tie plate. The tie plate had completed the circuit — bypassing broken rail
protection. The block appeared clear. The track was broken. A train could have gone on the
ground.

Management and coworkers praised him for not letting it go. The system said clear. Mark said
investigate anyway.

This is the core skill of effective OHS work — refusing to accept a false negative. Applied to the
acoustic injury: the handheld meter said below 85dB, problem resolved, stand down. Mark said
a tonal resonance doesn’t work that way — and investigated anyway. Found the 328Hz
resonance. Found the missing panel. Found the open ceiling penetration. Found the
unpermitted installation.

Same brain. Different equipment. Same outcome.

Investigative Capability