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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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Assistant living and supportive living needs assessment

The purpose is to understand workplace safety issues and examine the need for occupational health and safety training, education, and resources in assisted living and supportive living.

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Assisted and independent living are two distinct sectors with their challenges and needs. However, one common thread is that both workplace injury rates have increased since 2015. Sector trends show: We want to work with assisted living and independent living residences to lower injury rates and ensure staff have safe and healthy workplaces. This will […]
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Understand the new WorkSafeBC legislation around the duty to cooperate and maintain employment for injured workers.
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Emotional intelligence is our ability to identify and manage our own emotions and reactions - and includes our ability to identify and respond appropriately to the feelings of others.
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This presentation will walk you through the core componenents of self-compassion and explore the benefits of cultivating self-compassion.
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Rate setting and healthcare rates for 2022.
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The purpose is to understand workplace safety issues and examine the need for occupational health and safety training, education, and resources in assisted living and supportive living.
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Join us on Thursday, September 19 from 10 - 11 a.m. for a WorkSafeBC webinar on preliminary assessment rates for 2025. The webinar will also provide an overview of injury rate trends and show how your premiums can be reduced by creating safer and healthier workplaces and helping injured workers recover. This is your opportunity […]
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The Active Living Program is a restorative care program. The program has been running for ten years. Each Restorative Care Worker (there are 3, one per floor) is assigned to one of Broadway Lodge's neighbourhoods and through their knowledge and skills as Restorative Care Workers (RCWs), they support residents to maintain strength, balance, flexibility, and […]
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As April 28th approaches, the National Day of Mourning serves as a reminder of the profound impact that workplace-related injuries and fatalities have on people's lives. While we are grateful that there have been very few worker deaths in the long-term and continuing care sector, it's crucial to acknowledge that many workers experience life-altering injuries […]
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Musculoskeletal disorders know no age or lifestyle bounds, impacting an astonishing 1.71 billion individuals worldwide—a testament to their widespread prevalence and the urgent need for awareness and action. (2022, par 1).   There are numerous ways to get musculoskeletal disorders, both within and outside of the workplace. Awareness of these common causes may prevent musculoskeletal injuries […]
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