Quiet workspace — sensory accommodation.
Flexible scheduling to accommodate medical appointments and academic requirements.
Email as primary communication channel.

TIMELINE

Spring/Summer 2026 Medical stabilization. Specialist care (ENT May 2026+). Autism
assessment. Medication stabilization. Academic upgrading research and enrollment.

Fall 2026 BCIT Technical Entry — Mathematics and Physics upgrading.
Spring 2027 BCIT OHS Diploma Year 1 begins.

Summer 2027 Work integrated learning — BCRTC OHS department placement.
2027-2028 OHS Diploma Year 2.

2028 Graduation. CRSP pathway begins. Broadway Extension operational. Qualified
OHS professional in place at BCRTC.

CLOSING STATEMENT

| did not want this.

| wanted to come back. My shoes are still under the table in the training room where | left them.
My belongings are still in my locker — including my $200 MSA MIPS hard hat and my 3M
WorkTunes Connect bluetooth earmuffs. Hearing protection with bluetooth. | use them cutting
wood. | am serious about hearing protection. | have been serious about it for 25 years across
three industries. | wear safety glasses when nobody else does. | own the ear muff attachment
for my hard hat and the safety eye shield.

The worker who owns bluetooth earmuffs for cutting wood in his own backyard was injured by
noise in a training room because he could not wear hearing protection while trying to hear his
instructor.

left everything in my locker because | intended to return. | had no plan to be anything other
than what | was — a worker going to work, doing the job right, coming home to his family.

if | had never been injured, | might have sought an autism assessment someday — when there
was time, when there was money, when the family was settled. Instead | would have spent that
money on a vacation or paid off some debt. | had other priorities. Family first. Always.

was injured because a safety concern was dismissed.

investigated that dismissal more thoroughly than the employer.

documented the hazard more rigorously than any assessment that preceded mine.
identified the mechanism of my own injury before any specialist.

found the broken rail when the system said the track was clear.