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Breathe Safer: How to Use Respirators Safely and Start a Respirator Program
This manual, developed for employers, supervisors, and workers, describes different types of breathing hazards and respirators. It also explains how to choose, fit, and care for a respirator. In addition, the manual covers the essential elements of respirator programs.
$7.00

Controlling Exposure: Protecting Workers from Infectious Disease
Changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in British Columbia have expanded the regulatory requirements for infectious diseases beyond blood and body fluids.
$6.00

Dementia: Understanding Risks and Preventing Violence
The purpose of this book is to provide some understanding of how clinical care approaches and interventions can prevent or minimize the risk of injury to workers when caring for people with dementia.
$4.00

Don't put it on the bench...put it on your ears!
This is a 11 X 17 inch, full colour Hearing Loss Prevention Poster.
$1.00

Handle With Care - Patient Handling and Application of Ergonomics (MSI) Requirements
This guide describes the process of identifying, assessing, and controlling the risks of MSI associated with patient handling.
$7.00

High-Risk Manual Handling of Patients in Healthcare
This guide has been written to provide information on patient moving and handling techniques that present higher risks of musculoskeletal injury (MSI) to healthcare workers.
$5.00

Home and Community Health Worker Handbook
This handbook is written for workers in the field of home and community health care.
$3.00

Laboratory Health and Safety Handbook
This handbook is a guide to health and safety for laboratory workers and employers.
$7.00

Make Your Home Safer for Care Workers - PUNJABI
This brochure is for agencies that provide care in people's homes, to give to their clients or the client's family, before the first visit by a care worker.
$1.00

Patient Handling In Small Facilities
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 individual facility.
$3.00