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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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Safety Huddle

The Continuing Care Sector

Feel in control of your own safety and be motivated to contribute to a safe and healthy workplace.

Instructions

Arrange to have this huddle in a space where you can show staff the SafeCare BC - Be Care Aware Challenge video.

After watching the video, use the guiding questions to facilitate a discussion about workplace safety in your organization.

After this huddle Staff should know how to:

  • Feel in control of their own safety.
  • Be motivated to contribute to a safe and healthy workplace.

Guiding questions

  • Why are health care assistants at a higher risk of injury than people with other careers?
  • What do we do well as a group to create a safe workplace? In what areas can we do better?
  • What do you do to stay safe at work?
  • What resources would be helpful in creating a healthier and safer workplace?

Notes to the huddle leader

  • Staff can influence change to the injury rate in the continuing care sector by contributing to a safer work environment and putting their own safety first.
  • If staff are having a hard time coming up with ideas for how they personally stay safe at work, try suggesting some specific scenarios to focus their thinking (e.g. How do you stay safe when transferring someone?).
Downloads
18-The-Continuing-Care-Sector.pdf
The Continuing Care Sector

Additional Resources

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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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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