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The Home Care and Community Health Support Pocketbook was created to bring awareness to several health and safety issues faced in home and community care.
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In long-term care it is increasingly apparent that who is on shift is just as important as how many staff are on shift. Quality care is difficult to achieve when we do not routinely engage with one another in a positive, or civil, manner.
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Leading from the Inside Out provides a safe space for leaders in continuing care to share their challenges and learn self-care practices.
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The Provincial Violence Prevention Curriculum is recognized as best-practice in violence prevention training for health care workers.
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Guidelines and Regulations

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WorkSafeBC’s healthcare and social services planned inspection initiative focuses on high-risk activities in the workplace that lead to serious injuries and time-loss claims.
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WorkSafeBC is releasing a discussion paper with proposed amendments to the Current Rehabilitation Services and Claims Manual that guide wage rate decisions related to short-term and long-term disability compensation. Recommended amendments include: These changes may affect your claims costs. Click here to view the proposed changes and offer feedback to WorkSafeBC – The deadline is 4:30 p.m. on Friday, […]
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Safety Huddle

De-escalation strategies

Working with clients or residents and their families is not always easy. You may not be able to control how others act, but you can control how you respond.

Working with clients or residents and their families is not always easy. You may not be able to control how others act, but you can control how you respond.

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Working with clients or residents and their families is not always easy. You may not be able to control how others act, but you can control how you respond.
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Working closely with clients and their families and friends, often under difficult circumstances and sometimes in isolated locations, can put you at risk of violence. Violence and aggressive behaviour are not part of your job.
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WorkSafeBC’s healthcare and social services planned inspection initiative focuses on high-risk activities in the workplace that lead to serious injuries and time-loss claims.
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More Safety Huddles

Working with clients or residents and their families is not always easy. You may not be able to control how others act, but you can control how you respond.
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Learn to identify potentially violent situations, apply de-escalation techniques and report violence or near misses.
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SafeCare BC’s Safety Huddle Handbook includes a collection of topics that you can use to organize your own safety huddles. While many huddles can be done as a discussion, others require additional resources. Below you will find a list of handouts, documents, pictures and videos that can be used for the corresponding huddle.
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Learn to know the consequences of getting injured at work and understand how injuries affect everyone in the workplace.
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Learn how dementia affects behaviour and be able to apply strategies to responsive behaviours.
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Achieve a work-life balance by developing and implement your own self-care plan to
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Transfers
Learn when it is safe to transfer a person in care and know what to do if it is not safe to transfer.
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WorkSafeBC’s healthcare and social services planned inspection initiative focuses on high-risk activities in the workplace that lead to serious injuries and time-loss claims.
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Provincial Violence Prevention Curriculum Workshop
Menno Place - Abbotsford
September 23rd @ 8:30am to 4:30pm
Violence Prevention
Starting at $35
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Provincial Violence Prevention Curriculum Workshop
Menno Place - Abbotsford
July 12th @ 8:30am to 4:30pm
Violence Prevention
Starting at $35
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Provincial Violence Prevention Curriculum Train the Trainer Workshop
Brandt's Creek Mews - Kelowna
May 1st @ 8:30am
Violence Prevention
Starting at $400
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