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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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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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Introduction to the Media releases taxonomy of news posts.

Burnaby – With a standing-room only crowd of more than 200, Vancouver-based Louis Brier Home and Hospital took home the top prize in SafeCare BC’s Dragon’s Den-style competition, with its innovative Worker Health and Safety Dashboard. The Safety Den brings the health sector together to showcase ideas and solutions to some of the most pressing […]
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With Environment Canada warning the extreme chill of winter will continue to hold BC in its frozen grip this week, SafeCare BC—the non-profit association working to ensure injury-free, safe working conditions for the more than 28,000 continuing care workers in BC—is encouraging its members, workplaces and those visiting loved ones in care to use their ‘snow sense’ in tackling the white and icy stuff over these next few sub-zero days ahead, and throughout the winter.
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SafeCare BC is applauding the provincial government for committing, as part of the latest round of collective bargaining, $8.5 million over the next three years to support a recently announced agency, which will help support workplace safety in health care.
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We are pleased to announce the opening of a fourth SafeCare BC Satellite Training Centre at Penticton’s Haven Hill Retirement Centre – the first of its kind in the Interior.
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The National Alliance for Safety and Health in Healthcare applauds House of Commons Standing Committee on Health for recommendations to address violence facing healthcare workers
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In B.C. alone, over 60% of all workplace violence claims come from the health and social services among major industry groups, despite the sector accounting for only 11% of the provincial workforce.
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According to a new SafeCare BC report, a shortage of home care and support workers has a negative impact on workplace health and safety.
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This tool can be used by organizations as a self-audit tool to identify opportunities for health and safety improvement, but should only be employed at organizations that have a basic safety program in place.
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Advanced Gerontological Education (AGE) Inc. and SafeCare BC are pleased to announce their partnership to make the Gentle Persuasive Approach (GPA) curriculum available to continuing care workers across BC.
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