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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
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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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Safety Huddle

Bullying and Harassment Policy

This safety huddle will help you develop a Bullying and harassment policy for your organization.

Instructions

  • Before the huddle, review your organization’s bullying and harassment policy statement. If your organization does not have a bullying and harassment policy statement, or it needs to be updated, refer to Developing a Policy Statement: Workplace Bullying and Harassment to guide you through the process.
  • During the huddle, use the guiding questions to facilitate a discussion about bullying and harassment policies and how to create a respectful work environment.

After this huddle Staff should know how to

  • Recognize workplace bullying and harassment.
  • Contribute to a respectful workplace.

Notes to the huddle leader

  • It is the law for all workplaces to have a bullying and harassment policy.
  • If you feel the discussion is taking a negative tone, try redirecting the discussion to what helps create a positive and respectful workplace where people feel appreciated.
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Safety Huddle Guide and Attendance Sheet
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Develop a policy statement for Workplace bullying and harassment
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Bullying and Harassment Policy

Additional Resources

Bullying and incivility are significant problems in workplaces, homes, schools, and online. SafeCare BC and its members can play a role in creating safe, healthy, and civil workplaces.
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Learn about what bullying and harassment is and when to report it.
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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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The bullying and harassment resource tool kit helps employers and workers to understand their legal duties, and to prevent and address bullying and harassment in the workplace.
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This document contains a step-by-step guide for developing reporting procedures for workplace bullying and harassment, as well as sample procedures and a sample complaint form.
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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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Bullying and incivility are significant problems in workplaces, homes, schools, and online. SafeCare BC and its members can play a role in creating safe, healthy, and civil workplaces.
View Safety Topic
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