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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 has acknowledged an error in calculating the 2025 SafeCare BC levy, which is included in the premiums paid by our two member employer groups–those providing community health support services (classification unit 766006) and those in long-term care (classification unit 766011).
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The Province has introduced a new masking policy for all healthcare workers who provide direct care effective immediately. Staff Requirements Visitor Guidance With an increase in viral respiratory illnesses (VRI) across the province, the Ministry of Health has introduced new masking measures to help control the spread of these illnesses. It's important to remember that […]
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Safety Huddle

Reporting Bullying and Harassment

Learn about what bullying and harassment is and when to report it.

Instructions

  • Before the huddle, review your organization’s bullying and harassment reporting procedure.
  • If your organization does not have a bullying and harassment reporting procedure or your current procedure needs updating, the Developing Reporting Procedures: Workplace Bullying and Harassment document can guide you through the process.
  • Use the guiding questions to facilitate a discussion about when and how to report bullying and harassment.

After this huddle, staff should know how to:

  • Report bullying and harassment.
  • Have an understanding of what bullying and harassment are.

Notes to the huddle leader

  • Understand that this can be a sensitive and intimidating topic, so it is important not to pressure staff hesitant to share their views and experiences.

Guiding questions

  • What does bullying and harassment look like?
  • What would you do if you saw someone being bullied?
  • What would you do if you felt that you were being bullied?
  • What is our organization’s bullying and harassment reporting procedure, and why is it important to have one?

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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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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 safety huddle will help you develop a Bullying and harassment policy for your organization.
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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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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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A strong organizational culture fosters employee engagement, collaboration, and productivity, while a weak or toxic culture can lead to dissatisfaction and high turnover.
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Safety huddles are important because they focus on improving staff safety by creating solutions and opportunities to communicate, helping build a culture of safety, encouraging positive change within the workplace, and providing staff with a chance to share important information.
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Learn to recognize feeling unsettled, use effective self-settling strategies in situations self-setting may be helpful.
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Learn about what bullying and harassment is and when to report it.
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People living with dementia can experience changes in how they understand and process language, which can affect how they communicate.
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Learn to follow proper hand washing procedures.
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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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WorkSafeBC's resource page for bullying and harassment.
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Having safe, healthy, and inclusive workplaces should be a basic goal for all employers. However, many workers view their workplace as being very unhealthy or even toxic. So why is there a disconnect between this basic goal and reality? In this session, Dr. Day will explore the key elements of a safe and respectful workplace […]
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This website is an online platform of free online mental health resources and webinars designed for healthcare workers. Created in a partnership by SafeCare BC, the Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division, and the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions
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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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