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We are dedicated to providing comprehensive occupational health and safety (OHS) consulting services tailored to your needs.
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Psychological health and safety, often called workplace mental health, encompasses principles and practices to foster a supportive, respectful, and psychologically safe work environment.
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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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Amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (OHSR), Part 5: Chemical Agents and Biological Agents – Emergency Planning came into effect on February 3, 2025. Changes include additional requirements to minimize the risk, likelihood, and harm caused by an emergency involving hazardous substances.   Hazardous substances include biological, chemical or physical hazards that may reasonably […]
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WorkSafeBC has acknowledged an error in calculating the 2025 insurance premiums that are 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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Civil Workplace

How Civil is Your Workplace?

People often think that because they are not being rude they are being civil. However, civility is more than acting neutrally.

Civility requires paying attention to what is going on around us. It requires self awareness and insight into how all of us show up in our workplace.
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Take a moment to reflect. Have you ever been the recipient of, or witnessed someone…

  • Ignoring a co-worker, not saying hello when greeted or not responding to a co-worker’s request for help
  • Spreading rumours, lies or half-truths about a co-worker
  • Acting impatient, treating a co-worker as if they’re incompetent
  • Blaming and/or criticizing a co-worker
  • Insisting on getting their own way and never apologizing
  • Sabotaging a co-worker’s work, making them look foolish, or placing impossible demands on them
  • Yelling, pointing fingers, swearing, insulting, or threatening a co-worker

Have you ever DONE any of the following?

  • Ignored a co-worker, not said hello when greeted or not responded to a co-worker’s request for help
  • Spread rumours, lies or half-truths about a co-worker
  • Acting impatient, treated a co-worker as if they’re incompetent
  • Blamed and/or criticized a co-worker
  • Insisting on getting your own way and never apologizing
  • Sabotaged a co-worker’s work, made them look foolish, or 
placed impossible demands on them
  • Yelled, pointed fingers, sworn, insulted, or threatened a co-worker

When we ask this question in a group setting, many people indicate that they have both witnessed and undertaken a number of these behaviours. There are a lot of good people who don't always bring their most civil self to work.

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