Jon Arason sits on the Workshop Committee. He is the Manager of Environment and Emergency Management at the BC Rapid Transit Company (BCRTC), the rail division of TransLink. BCRTC’s operations include SkyTrain (Expo and Millennium Line), and West Coast Express. Jon is responsible for both the Emergency Management and Business Continuity System and the Environmental Management System.
Jon holds a bachelor of Environmental Science Degree from Royal Roads University, a Chemical Sciences Diploma from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and an Emergency Management Certificate from the Justice Institute of British Columbia. He is a registered Applied Science Technologist with the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians (ASTT) of BC, and an Accredited Business Continuity Professional with the Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) of Canada.