
Bullying and Harassment
Bullying and incivility are significant problems in workplaces, homes, schools, and online. SafeCare BC and its members can play a role in creating safe, healthy, and civil workplaces.
Let’s focus on reducing injuries and keeping our workers safe and at work. With an aging worker population, staff shortages and the ever-increasing complexity of tasks, we all need to work smarter, not harder. Check out our resource page with toolkits, checklists, safety huddles, webinars, educational opportunities and more! If you don’t have a safe handling policy or program and aren’t sure where to start, check out our 5-step toolkit.
Use this checklist to review your Safe Handling Program.
Use our customizable template to create a safe client handling policy
Use our customizable template to create a safe resident handling policy for your organization.
Use this safety huddle to discuss your no-lift policy to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injury.
Bullying and incivility are significant problems in workplaces, homes, schools, and online. SafeCare BC and its members can play a role in creating safe, healthy, and civil workplaces.
Manual client handling and other physical tasks can cause overexertion of your muscles to cause injury. Musculoskeletal injuries are sprains and strains to the muscles and surrounding tissues, which can have life-long impacts These are the leading type of injury for home and community care workers.
Dementia can affect behaviour and mood – but the care for persons with dementia aims to achieve the same goals – whether at home or in long-term care – safety for the person, family, and caregivers.
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.
Managing risk includes identifying hazards, assessing the risk, and deciding on control measures to eliminate or minimize the risk. When identifying hazards, it’s important to look for all the conditions and situations that could possibly harm your workers.
Resources Best Practices for the Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs Mainly intended for the healthcare industry, this book provides an overview of current knowledge on hazardous drugs, describes how to
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.
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.
SafeCare BC works with partners throughout the industry to help create healthy and safe workplaces.
Statistics and numbers for long-term care and home and community care to help inform your health and safety program.
Prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and influenza by taking proper infection control measures in your workplace.
Creating a safe work environment starts from the top. As a leader, you can play an important role in fostering a culture of health and safety to keep your staff safe.
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