Our Mandate

We strive to empower those working in the continuing care sector to create safer, healthier workplaces by fostering a culture of safety through evidence-based education, leadership, and collaboration.

Established in 2013, SafeCare BC is an industry funded, non-profit association working to ensure injury free, safe working conditions for continuing care workers in BC. SafeCare strives to be the industry leader in advancing injury prevention and safety training for long-term care and home support workers. We are committed to improving health and safety within the work place and responding to the needs and priorities of our members.

For a detailed look at SafeCare BC’s mission and offerings, see this document.

Membership

For those organizations, who operate under WorkSafeBC Classification Unit numbers 766011 and 766006, membership in SafeCare BC is automatic, with the exception of health authority owned and operated sites.

If you are not registered under either of these classification units, but would like to take advantage of our programs, services and resources, including member-pricing education and training, you can apply to become a SafeCare BC Associate Member.

SafeCare maintains a strong emphasis on injury prevention through the following:

• Offering online/in-person learning for health care professionals
• Improving health and safety protocols within the workplace
• Providing management with training on creating and fostering an organizational culture of safety
• Providing materials and resources to support safer workplaces.

What We Do

SafeCare seeks to develop the most innovative and practical training for injury prevention of long-term care and home support workers. We continuously work with industry leaders and professionals to develop and implement these solutions.

We provide our members with cost effective training, educational services, and industry safety performance information as well as communicate government health and safety legislation and policies which impacts our members.

Our members are experienced, knowledgeable and passionate about the continuing care sector. We continually seek active participation and involvement of all SafeCare members to ensure our representation is accurate and informed. We strive to remain the leading source for the latest, accurate information on the sector, to better support our membership.

Values

The values of SafeCare BC define what the Association holds as important from an internal organizational perspective and from a larger industry perspective. At SafeCare BC, we value:

• Safe work and safe work behaviours
• Safety leadership at all levels
• The right of workers to have safe and healthy workplaces
• Evidence-based, practical solutions to workplace health and safety challenges
• Integrity and accountability
• Innovation as a tool to effect change
• Collaboration with our members, stakeholders, and external organizations