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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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Resources We have compiled some resources and materials for direct-care staff that will help reduce the risk of workplace injury. You can also check out our our upcoming workshops. Violence Prevention Dementia Care Joint Health & Safety Committees Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Bullying and Harassment Infection Control Industry Statistics Hazard Identification What’s wrong with this picture? Can […]

Resources

We have compiled some resources and materials for direct-care staff that will help reduce the risk of workplace injury. You can also check out our our upcoming workshops.

Violence Prevention

Dementia Care

Joint Health & Safety Committees

Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention

Bullying and Harassment

Infection Control

Industry Statistics

Hazard Identification

What’s wrong with this picture?

Can you find the hazards in these staged photos? Download the full images and answer key, and share at team meetings, or post at your workplace and encourage staff to find the hazards.

“©WorkSafeBC, used with permission

The Learning Hub

Provincial Health Services administers a province-wide LearningHub, offering online courses and other learning opportunities designed to help health care providers continuously develop their skills, knowledge and competencies.

Below you will find a list of courses, more will be added when they become available. You will need to create a login account before registering.

Mechanical Lifts and Transfers

WHSCH 101 – Overview of Mechanical Lift Use in Home Health

WHSCH 301 – Using Ceiling Lifts

WHSCH 303 – Using Lateral Transfer & Repositioning in Bed Slings with Ceiling Lift

WHSCH 401 – Using Floor Lifts

Home care Resources

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Have you integrated the new first aid requirements that came into effect on November 1? Join us on Thursday, November 7, from 11 a.m. – noon for a WorkSafeBC webinar on the new occupational first aid requirements. This session is designed to help you understand and implement the necessary changes. Join us, to learn more […]
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Leaders, join us for an interactive session to explore social intelligence (SI) and safety culture.
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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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Applying for the Certificate of Recognition is easy. Use this poster to help guide you through the process.
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The Working Mind for Employees Workshop
Haven Hill Retirement Centre - Penticton
August 5th @ 9:00am to 2:00pm
Mental Health
Starting at $35
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Join us the April's continuing care sector leadership roundtable - Talking about the importance of personal boundaries.
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Join these monthly sessions to connect with managers and leaders across British Columbia in long-term and continuing care.
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Injury trends in long-term care and home and community healthcare support for 2022.
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2021 injury trends in long-term and home and community care
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The 2021 injury rate for SafeCare BC’s home support members was 3.7 and remained relatively consistent with the previous year’s rate. For the second year in a row, our members outperformed the sector overall. This is good news. However, the number of injury claims increased 50% and the cost of injury claims for the sector, which is a driver of WorkSafeBC premiums, increased 23% to $5.3 million.
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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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Use this checklist to record information about client-centred violence-related hazards and existing control measures. The questions in the tool focus on common hazards and control measures. Organizations must evaluate client homes, surrounding areas and control measures for applicability. Use the table below as a reference tool when prioritizing action items.
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This document has been adapted from the Violence Risk Assessment Standard created by the Fraser Health Authority, Interior Health Authority, Northern Health Authority, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, Vancouver Island Health Authority, First Nations Health Authority, the Provincial Health Services Authority and WorkSafeBC dated August 24, 2021. The purpose of this standard is to provide a […]
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This risk assessment audit tool includes a template for long-term care, home care and community health support, and non-clinical areas.
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Community and home care workers will often drive, or take transit, to a client’s home as part of their job. This means that if you are driving, your car is your mobile workplace while you are visiting clients. Being on the road can be dangerous if you are not prepared.
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When working alone, you may face a risk of violence, as the care you are providing may cause a client to feel nervous or agitated. Being exposed to violent or aggressive behaviour is not part of your job.
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Unrestrained animals, either on approach to a home or inside the home, can create an unsafe work environment.
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Slips, trips and falls are the second most common injury for home and community health workers. As you enter a client's home, there may be uneven or slippery surfaces outside. Weather, outside environment, and clutter inside the home may result in tripping hazards.
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Violence refers to physical force that causes injury to a worker and includes any threatening statement or that gives you reasonable cause to believe that you are in danger.
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Use this template to develop a bullying and harassment policy for your organization.
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SafeCare BC’s violence prevention policy templates will supplement existing policies of continuing care providers across the province and guide the establishment of new ones where none currently exists.
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Read the scenario out loud and use the guiding questions to facilitate a discussion about intoxication in client homes.
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Pets in the Home
Learn to deal with pets according to their organization's policies and react appropriately when a pet poses a risk.
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Bed Bugs
This huddle will help your staff minimize their exposure to and prevent the spread of bed bugs.
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Employees who work alone or in isolation tend to be more vulnerable to safety hazards than those who have coworkers present.
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Vaccines play an important role in infection prevention and control. They can help keep you and others safe in the workplace, at home, and in public.
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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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Exposure to hazardous drugs and infectious diseases poses a health risk. Hazardous drugs include antineoplastics, cytotoxic drugs, certain hormone therapies, antiviral drugs, antibiotics, and synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl and carfentanyl.
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Dementia is an umbrella term with many subtypes such as Alzheimer’s disease, vasculardementia and frontal-temporal dementia. The most common type (64%) is Alzheimer’s disease.
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