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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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WorkSafeBC is holding a second public hearing this month on proposed changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation related to combustible dusts.
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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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Webinar

Holding space for grief: Navigating loss in care work

Explore how grief presents itself in care environments and find ways to support both yourself and others through the experience.

This session is about loss, connection, and the emotional realities of caregiving.

In long-term care, relationships with residents often grow quietly and deeply over time. Care providers may experience grief that feels invisible or unacknowledged.

This webinar offered a compassionate space to explore that grief, validate your experience, and provided practical strategies for coping with the grief experienced in the workplace. Our presenters explored how grief presents itself in care environments and discussed ways to support both yourself and others through the experience.

You're not alone—your grief is real and it matters.

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Grief
Working in long-term care means facing the reality of death and grief. It's a workplace hazard that can't be avoided because providing end-of-life care is essential to the job.
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Speakers

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Zelda Freitas is a Social Worker and Clinical Senior Advisor with Professional Practice of the Directorate of Rehabilitation and Multidisciplinary Services of the CIUSSS West-Central Center-West Montreal. She is an Adjunct Professor and course lecturer at the McGill University School of Social Work. Zelda’s experience involves training, knowledge transfer, psychosocial support on issues related to caregiving, palliative and end of life care, and older adults. She presents at international and national conferences and participates in research projects and publications. She serves on several advisory boards and is a volunteer member of the McGill Council on Palliative Care. Zelda is a founding member and part of the coordination team of the Caregiver Grief Connexion project. 
Kath Murray is a Hospice Palliative Care Nurse, educator, and founder of Life and Death Matters, a Canadian palliative care education company. She creates "delicious and digestible" resources to help healthcare teams integrate palliative care across all settings.  Kath has authored key texts for PSWs and nurses, complete with workbooks, podcasts, and videos available through the LDM online library. Her nursing text has also been adapted into Spanish for providers in Mexico.  Drawing from both professional expertise and personal caregiving experience, Kath combines current research with real-world stories, delivering complex material with warmth, clarity, and humor.  In Spring of 2025 Kath hosted the HPCO Podcast Series “Palliative Talks”. 

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