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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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Programs & Services

Programs and Services

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Leading from the Inside Out
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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 & Regulations

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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Resources

Safety Huddles

Resources
Safety Huddles
Safety huddles are a great way to engage staff in relevant and timely conversations about their workplace health and safety. They encourage a continuous and open dialogue about safety in your organization and promote a culture of well-being for staff and the people they care for.

What Does a Safety Huddle Look Like?

A safety huddle is a short meeting lead by a huddle leader, usually held at the start of each shift, with a focus on preventing injuries. They are informal and provide an opportunity for staff to have discussions, practice skills, brainstorm solutions, or review recent workplace incidents. Anyone who’s impacted by the huddle’s topic should be involved, including care, facility, housekeeping, and kitchen staff.

What does a Huddle Leader do?

  • Ensures that everyone has a chance to speak and participate
  • Encourages dialogue and problem-solving
  • Keeps the conversation on topic
  • Confirms that participants have met the learning goals

On this webpage you will find a collection of topics that you can use for your own Safety Huddles. Each topic includes:

  • Instructions for how to run the huddle
  • Learning goals for what participants should be able to do after the huddle
  • Guiding questions to facilitate discussion
  • Notes for the huddle leader, which highlight the topic’s key content and learning opportunities
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Bed Bugs
This huddle will help your staff minimize their exposure to and prevent the spread of bed bugs.
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This safety huddle will help you develop a Bullying and harassment policy for your organization.
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After this huddle, staff will be able to explain how dementia may affect communication, apply person-centred care approaches to communicating with someone living with dementia, and identify steps to take if there is a new change in a person’s behaviour or ability to communicate.
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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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Learn to describe how dementia can change a person’s brain and explain why the strategies shown in the video are effective.
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Environmental Scan
Learn to assess an environment for hazards before providing care.
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Learn to report and recognize heat exhaustion and take preventative measures to help avoid the ill effects of heat stress.
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Hand washing
Learn to follow proper hand washing procedures.
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Hazardous drugs
Use these guiding questions to facilitate a discussion about hazardous drugs.
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Learn to recognize the signs of impairment and properly report impairment.
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Learn to recognize when someone is intoxicated, exercise your right to refuse unsafe work and how to objectively document intoxication.
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Read the scenario out loud and use the guiding questions to facilitate a discussion about intoxication in client homes.
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Learn how to properly use lifts to avoid musculoskeletal injury.
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Learn to refer to the no-lift policy to reduce your risk of musculoskeletal injury.
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Pets in the Home
Learn to deal with pets according to their organization's policies and react appropriately when a pet poses a risk.
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Instructions Notes to the huddle leader Scenario
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Download this safety huddle to help guide your staff through the proper reporting procedures set out by your organization.
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Learn about what bullying and harassment is and when to report it.
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Learn about the importance of respecting your own and coworkers' right to medical privacy and how to welcome a colleague back to work with kindness and respect.
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Learn why visitors may experience different emotions as restrictions are lifted and be able to respond appropriately if confronted.
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Learn to regularly use point of care assessments to identify MSI risks and make practical choices to avoid injury.
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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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Self-Settling
Learn to recognize feeling unsettled, use effective self-settling strategies in situations self-setting may be helpful.
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Feel in control of your own safety and be motivated to contribute to a safe and healthy workplace.
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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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Learn how dementia affects behaviour and be able to apply strategies to responsive behaviours.
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Learn to identify potentially violent situations, apply de-escalation techniques and report violence or near misses.
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Learn to build stronger relationships with the people they care for and Keep Activities of Daily Living information up-to-date.
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Moral distress is when one feels as though they should take a certain action but cannot due to the restraints of the situation.
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Achieve a work-life balance by developing and implement your own self-care plan to
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Learn about what workplace incivility is, be able to identify your role and how to feel empowered to contribute to a positive work environment.
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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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How to use this Webpage

These Safety Huddles are intended for use by huddle leaders. A huddle leader could be a manager, supervisor, licensed practical nurse, or anyone who knows about and is trained in a specific safety topic.

  • Some huddles require handouts, resources or videos. These can be found below.
  • Use this attendance sheet to have huddle participants sign-in at each huddle to keep an up-to-date training record.
  • On the title of each huddle below, there is a colour legend that indicates the audience for which the huddle is designed.
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