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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
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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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Return/Recover at Work

Understand the new WorkSafeBC legislation around the duty to cooperate and maintain employment for injured workers.
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This video shares the journeys of two Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) workers through the company's innovative Recover at Work Centre. CMBC, with the support of WorkSafeBC, created this centre to help workers remain at work after an occupational injury, understanding that the sooner workers can return to work safely the sooner they can get back to life.
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Use these resources to develop a stronger return to work program.
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This document provides a list of typical limitations for common physical injuries.
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Recovering while at work is the healthiest option for most people with work-related injuries. Working is good for physical and mental health, and often helps speed healing. Making safe, sustainable work arrangements for recovering workers takes teamwork. Workers, employers, and health care providers all have important contributions to make.
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The Employers Advisors Office offers a variety of in-person and remote seminars on occupational health and safety, including claim management courses for compensation, return to work, the review process and appeals. Information on their in-person and e-learning courses can be found here.
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Renovate an underused amenity room into a workout room at site for employee use at no charge that is available 24/7.
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A recover-at-work program has huge benefits for injured workers because it reduces the risk of a disability mindset and supports the psychological benefits of working, which include having a routine, feeling productive, and having social connections with co-workers.
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Baptist Housing has 1,200 team members caring for 2,100 residents at 17 senior living communities across BC. Having an effective return to/recover at work program for injured workers is essential, not only for the workers themselves but also for their co-workers and the organization’s operations
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