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| Title: | Be Sure... Be Safe | ||
| Order #: | BK121 | ||
| Description: | Safety in the Healthcare Workplace: Discussion Guide WorkSafeBC presents three new videos illustrating the hazards of working alone in the community with aggressive and potentially violent patients, patient-handling activities, and needle use, each one portraying situations that care workers may encounter on the job. This guide is meant as a tool to promote discussion about the situations in the videos, and those workers face on a daily basis. |
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| Title: | Controlling Exposure: Protecting Workers from Infectious Disease | ||
| Order #: | BK129 | ||
| Description: | Changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in British Columbia have expanded the regulatory requirements for infectious diseases beyond blood and body fluids. Preventive action is now required for any infectious disease that is found in the workplace and may pose a risk to workers. Workers in healthcare are at greater risk of exposure to infectious diseases; however, the information in this publication is relevant to every industry in B.C. This book describes common infectious diseases and how they are spread, and explains how to protect workers from exposure to infectious diseases. This book replaces the older publication HIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis B and C: Preventing Exposure at Work (BK38). |
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| Title: | Dealing with "Latex Allergies" at Work | ||
| Order #: | BK2 | ||
| Description: | The information in this booklet applies to a wide range of jobs with exposure to rubber products. This booklet explains the health problems that may be caused by using rubber products; the natural rubber latex protein allergy, which may cause severe health problems; and sources of information on "latex allergies." | ||
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| Title: | Dementia: Understanding Risks and Preventing Violence  |
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| Order #: | BK125 | ||
| Description: | This book provides information on how clinical care approaches and interventions can prevent or minimize the risk of worker injury when caring for people with dementia. It also provides a framework for how to incorporate the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation into clinical care, to eliminate or minimize the risk of worker exposure to violence. | ||
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| Title: | Handle with Care: Patient Handling and the Application of Ergonomics (MSI) Requirements | ||
| Order #: | BK79 | ||
| Description: | This 111-page publication discusses how to implement a "no lift" approach to patient handling in the health care sector. | ||
| Title: | High-Risk Manual Handling of Patients in Healthcare | ||
| Order #: | BK97 | ||
| Description: | Provides information on patient moving and handling techniques that present higher risks of musculoskeletal injury (MSI) to healthcare workers. Information on safer patient-handling strategies is also reviewed. | ||
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| Title: | Home and Community Health Worker Handbook | ||
| Order #: | BK104 | ||
| Description: | Handbook for workers in the field of home and community health care. It will help you:
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| Title: | Make Your Home Safer for Care Workers | ||
| Order #: | PH94 | ||
| Description: | This pamphlet is for agencies providing care in people's homes to give their clients before the first visit by a care worker. It outlines what clients must do to make their homes safe for care workers. Additionally, the pamphlet's back panel has space for agencies to stamp their own contact information. | ||
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| Title: | Patient Handling in Small Facilities: A Companion Guide to Handle with Care | ||
| Order #: | BK100 | ||
| Description: | This handbook illustrates how small facilities within the health care sector can apply WorkSafeBC's Ergonomics (MSI) Requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation to their own facility by acting as a guide through the process of identifying, assessing, and controlling the risks of musculoskeletal injuries (MSI) for patient handling. | ||
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| Title: | Preventing Violence in Health Care: Five Steps to an Effective Program | ||
| Order #: | BK34 | ||
| Description: | This manual will help health care employers to develop, implement, and review violence prevention programs. It presents a generic five-step model and offers tools such as checklists and forms that can be adapted for use inw hospitals, long-term care facilities, group homes, public health units, dental or medical facilities, and community settings. | ||
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| Title: | Psychological Assessment | ||
| Order #: | CM064 | ||
| Description: | This WorkSafeBC document illustrates why a psychological assessment is necessary after a worker is injured. The document answers the questions of why do workers need a psychological assessment, and what to expect during the assessment. It also explains privacy and confidentiality. | ||
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| Title: | Psychological Treatment | ||
| Order #: | CM065 | ||
| Description: | This WorkSafeBC document illustrates why psychological treatment may be necessary after a worker is injured. The document answers the questions of who provides psychological treatment, what to expect during the first visit, and what happens during subsequent sessions. It also explains privacy and confidentiality. | ||
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| Title: | Supervision in Health Care: Know Your Responsibilities |
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| Order #: | BK23 | ||
| Description: | This booklet is a discussion guide to accompany the Supervision in Health Care video series. The four videos are intended to raise awareness and generate discussion about the roles and responsibilities of supervisors in preventing injury to health care workers. The discussion guide contains additional information on the various topics and suggested discussion points for each video. | ||
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| Title: | Transfer Assist Devices for Safer Handling of Patients | ||
| Order #: | BK103 | ||
| Description: | Health care professionals can use this guide as a resource for evaluating and selecting appropriate transfer assist devices for use in their care environment. | ||
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| Title: | Working with Dementia: Safe Work Practices for Caregivers | ||
| Order #: | BK130 | ||
| Description: | Working with Dementia: Discussion Guide Description: The video consists of a series of modules that describe how to care for people with dementia. The introductory module provides general information on dementia. The remaining modules use enactments to portray situations that caregivers may encounter when caring for a person with dementia. They show caregivers how to respond to similar situations in order to stay safe and support the person with dementia. |
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| Title: | Your
Chiropractor and You |
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| Order #: | PH72 | ||
| Description: | Working together to help you return to work | ||
| (PDF 343kb) Also available in Punjabi, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. | |||
| Title: | Your Physiotherapist and You | ||
| Order #: | PH27 | ||
| Description: | Working together to help you return to work | ||
| (PDF 227kb) Also available in Punjabi, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. | |||
| Title: | Your
Registered Massage Therapist and You |
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| Order #: | PH81 | ||
| Description: | Working together to help you return to work | ||
| (PDF 557kb) | |||