Safety Innovations Database
We have created the Safety Innovations Database as a way for people to share ideas, initiatives and programs that can help address health and safety issues in continuing care.
We know there are lots of great ideas out there. The searchable database is a place for those in health care to learn from one another Somewhere, there is a solution to the challenges you’re experiencing. And you have the answer to someone else’s challenge.
With your help, we will grow the database, as it becomes the go-to place to test and share new ideas. We invite you to explore the database by clicking the title link for each entry or by searching with keywords.
| Image | Title | Summary | Categories | innovation_category_hfilter | innovation_tag_hfilter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Gotcha Safety Awards | The Gotcha Safety Awards is a campaign to ‘catch’ colleagues in the act of performing … | Other | other | safe-work-practices awards gamification |
| TIDE ( Team Incident Debrief Exercise) | A debrief exercise template, which includes an Incident debrief form along with an investigation and … | Other | other | debrief template |
| Passport for Safety – Canadian Edition Eh? | To encourage and improve both workplace safety education and online learning compliance, Eden Gardens is … | Other | other | education passport training |
 | Swift Ultraslide Patient Re-positioning system | The Swift Slider is a friction reducing device to assist with patient/resident repositioning, boosting and … | Overexertion | overexertion | slips-and-trips overexertion infection-control ease-of-use convenience workplace-injury back-injury over-exertion exertional-injury |
 | On-The-Right-Track Hookless Patient Cubicle Curtains | On-The-Right-Track Hookless Patient Cubicle Curtains is a safer and more infection control solution to patient … | Slips and Trips | slips-and-trips | slips-and-trips overexertion infection-control ease-of-use convenience |
| Sailing for Safety | Sailing for Safety is a fun and simple way to track education process. Using a … | Other | other | education |
| Ten Minutes to Relaxation | Our Employee-created program “Ten Minutes to Relaxation” was the dream of one of our HCWs. … | Other | other | self-care exercise |
| Provizio SEM Scanner | The Provizio SEM Scanner, is a non-invasive device with rapid results that compares SEM measurements … | Other | other | |
| Safety Flash Cards | Create customized and color-coded flash cards to streamline the education process for safety procedures in … | Other | other | safety education |
| Recovery & Renewal | See attached resource | Other | other | |
 | Point-of-care Rapid Testing | Rapid testing to screen visitors and staff for COVID. | Infection Prevention and Control | infection-prevention-control | |
 | 8 Days of Wellness | Based on the 8 pillars of Holistic Health (Emotional, Financial,Social,Spiritual,Occupational,Physical,Intellectual,Envirnomental) Research has shown that Long … | Mental Health | mental-health | wellness |
| “Wellness Awareness” Presentation | Chilliwack Society for Community Living has enrolled in the WorkSafeBC Certificate of Recognition (COR) initiative … | Other | other | wellness |
| NexsysADC Secure Dispensing Cabinet | Automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) have been available for a couple decades, but Capsa Healthcare’s NexsysADC … | Other | other | narcotics controlledmeds narcvault adc pyxis gunsafe c-ii controlled-meds narc-vault gun-safe drug-diversion diversion drug-theft drug-safety drug-cabinet |
| ShapeDown | SHAPEDOWN! A staff wellness initiative: participants agree to make 2 healthy changes to their diet … | Other | other | self-care |
| Wellness Wednesdays | The idea is to consider the middle day of the week- WEDNESDAY as the day … | Mental Health | mental-health | mindfulness meditation |
| Safety-It’s all in the Details! | We are creating safety posters for each department. These posters will have many safety fails … | Other | other | safety-culture |
| Fears and Solutions | The Fears and Solutions initiative is about starting a dialogue. Using a blank poster to … | Other | other | |
| The Hamlets Fit Test Operation | At the Hamlets there was an issue identified where the relative Health Authorities cohorted N95 … | Infection Prevention and Control | infection-prevention-control | |
| Rapid Antigen Testing for COVID-19 | The use of rapid antigen tests to test staff and visitors for COVID-19. | Infection Prevention and Control | infection-prevention-control | |
| Changing the Culture with Civility Three Cs | In Health Care incivility among coworkers/different shifts/departments can cause workers a great deal of stress … | Other | other | mentalhealthandwellness |
| Fears and Solutions Board | A poster that asks two questions: what are you afraid of? and what are you … | Other | other | fears solutions students workers poster |
 | Video Call Visits | Using iPads or other devices, staff can set up facetime/video call visits for residents and … | Toxic Exposure | toxic-exposure | ipad video-call facetime covid-19 |
| Safety Drill | To increase overall Safety Awareness we have created a safety game, similar to Jeopardy, with … | Other | other | |
 | Stretch and Exercise Rooms | Three-Steps: # 1 Renovate an underused amenity room into a workout room at site for … | Return/Recover at Work | return-recover | safety |
| Think Safety & Win | Custom made scratch off tickets given out to team members that are acting in a … | Other | other | safety ticket win |
 | Staff Continuous Quality Committee | A committee designed to engage all staff in the development and implementation of new strategies … | Acts of Violence | acts-of-violence | committee meeting quality |
| In-House Safety Video Library | At Eden Gardens we had a great idea to increase safety in our care home … | Other | other | safety video |
| Safety Star Program | Our Safety Star Program creates safety leaders throughout our care home, integrating a safety culture … | Overexertion | overexertion | acts-of-violence slips-and-trips falls struck-by toxic-exposure safety-culture |
| Safety Vests | These bright (very visible) vests allow team members to see and understand safety inspections happening … | Other | other | safety inspections understanding |
| Patient Identification Band | The patient Identification band with colour coding is intended for every resident and acts as … | Other | other | dementia alzheimers alzhemiers |
| Topic Tags | Our low-tech safety idea is the creation of a ‘luggage tag’ style ID for a … | Acts of Violence | acts-of-violence | dementia alzheimers |
