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Motor vehicle incidents are among the leading causes of traumatic workplace injuries and fatalities in BC. The Safe Driving for Work Checklist has been developed to help employers and their workers take proactive steps to manage driving-related risks. This checklist serves as a practical guide to reinforce safe driving practices and is designed to be used before, during, and after each trip.
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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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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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Injury Statistics & Trends
Analyzing the data from Injury trends allows us to understand the most pressing health and safety concerns in the sector, and take action to decrease injury rates. When your injury claims are lower than the sector average, you’ll receive a discount on your WorkSafeBC premiums. A safe and healthy workplace is something we should all strive for. Below you will find the latest injury trends in long-term care and home and community care.
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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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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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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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2021 injury trends in long-term and home and community care
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2020 injury trends in long-term care and home and community health support.
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This winter has presented many weather-related hazards, including an abundance of snow recently. With freezing rain being anticipated for much of Metro Vancouver, it is only about to become more challenging. Though leaving our homes during this season can be nerve-wracking, SafeCare BC wants you to know that you still have control over your safety. […]
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Did you know that last year in long-term care, there were more than 1,600 time-loss claims for SafeCare BC member organizations, a decrease of 15 percent compared to five years previous?
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The injury rate for SafeCare BC’s home care and community health support members continues to show a steady decline. The 2018 rate of 5 compares favourably to the rate of 7 two years ago.
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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 2021 injury rate for SafeCare BC’s long-term care members decreased 16% from the previous year and outperformed the sector overall. This is good news. However, the cost of injury claims for the sector, which is a driver of WorkSafeBC premiums, increased 40% to $25.6 million, from 2020.
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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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This sample employer checklist outlines an employer’s immediate and follow-up responsibilities.
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This rubric contains a list of typical limitations for common physical injuries.
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Whether you are developing or re-evaluating your injury management program, this guide for developing and implementing an injury management program (also referred to as a recover-at-work or return-to-work program) for workers who have experienced a work-related physical or psychological injury, illness, or occupational disease.
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Webinar regarding the rate setting and healthcare rates 2022 - presented by WorkSafeBC.
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Rate setting and healthcare rates for 2022.
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Kitchen working conditions vary from those of a private household where you are the only cook to large commercial kitchens where you are preparing meals with an entire team. Either way, kitchens are full of safety hazards and it is important to understand what they are and how to avoid them.
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On-The-Right-Track Hookless Patient Cubicle Curtains is a safer and more infection control solution to patient privacy curtains when compared to the traditional option.
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In this course, you will learn about slips, trips, and falls in the workplace including common causes for slips, trips, and falls that occur in the workplace and how to prevent them.
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When injuries at work happen, it is important to report the incident.
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The injury rate for SafeCare BC’s long-term care members continues to decline steadily and has dropped to its lowest level.
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While progress has been made, the injury rate is still four times higher than the provincial average in long-term care. Over the past five years in this sector, nearly 350,000 work days have been lost to injury. That’s the equivalent of losing almost 1,400 full-time staff. Imagine any business or organization being able to operate with so many of its employees off work.
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Sydney Griffin-Beale is a nursing supervisor with Bayshore Home Care, and through her work sees the impact of workplace injuries.
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Did you know that in home care and community health support, the injury rate is three times higher than the rate for all occupations? And that only half of injured workers will return to work within four weeks.  
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Hear caregivers talk about the impact of workplace injuries.
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The injury rate for long-term care workers in BC shows a very promising downward trend. The 2016 injury rate, recently released by WorkSafeBC, was 8.5, down slightly from 8.9 the previous year. What’s especially encouraging is that five years ago, the rate was close to 10. “This is very positive news and a testament to […]
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There is a staffing shortage in the long-term care sector and the perception that this shortage hurts workplace safety.
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The continuing care sector has an injury rate nearly double that of law enforcement.
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AOSH Week is an opportunity for workers, employers and those involved in occupational health and safety to come together to promote injury and illness prevention in the workplace.
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The 38th annual BC Care Providers Conference took place in Whistler, B.C., and this year’s conference featured many sessions focused on safety in the workplace within the continuing care sector.
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Injury Reporting
Injury Statistics & Trends
This sample employer checklist outlines an employer’s immediate and follow-up responsibilities.
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This rubric contains a list of typical limitations for common physical injuries.
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When injuries at work happen, it is important to report the incident.
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