Staff Show Case: A Minute With Aaron Poutanen

by Kasa Consulting
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What are your passions?

Making people laugh, lightening the mood, helping both employers and workers work together towards a common goal.

 What are your hobbies?

Snowboarding, golfing, working on cars, building furniture from industrial scraps.

Three words to describe you?

Honest, loyal, a bit weird/quirky

What was your first job?

Pumping gas and waiting tables at a small service station in Ontario.

Fun fact or Talents?

Talents – figuring out technical/mechanical things quickly… I can play several musical instruments.

Fun facts – I have 4 brothers and 1 sister, all at least 11 years older than me.

I have taken most vehicles I’ve owned to a drag strip at least once.

Have you ever met anyone famous?

Had lunch with George Chuvalo (Canadian boxer that fought Ali), met Curtis Joseph and Wendel Clark at a charity golf tournament.

 If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be?

Learn another language!

 What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?

St. Martin in the Caribbean. Sun, snorkeling, roti, and the people!

 Got any phobias?

Waking up 50 years old and having regrets for things I didn’t try.

Large animals when I’m camping in the woods.

 If you won the lottery what is the first thing you would buy?

I’d buy you a fur coat, but not a real fur coat, that’s cruel…. Seriously, I’d pay the mortgage off, and then take a trip back to the Caribbean.

 What are your pet peeves?

people who don’t say please and thanks to service staff, and don’t treat people with respect.

Sharing Facebook posts wit very obviously false or misleading info.

Aaron was recommended by a friend and we are so happy he crossed our path.  Aaron started his career in construction as a labourer and equipment operator.  After a promotion to Site manager he took the role of environmental officer, and finally found his true home in occupational health and safety.  Aaron has achieved the status of Canadian Registered Safely Professional in 2011.  Arron has been a great asset to the Kasa team bringing his construction background and easy going and fun loving personality.