Healthcare

This DVD contains 3 video segments that illustrate the hazards of working alone in the community with aggressive and potentially violent patients, patient handling activities, and needle use.

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.

Changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in British Columbia have expanded the regulatory requirements for infectious diseases beyond blood and body fluids.

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.

Hearing Loss Prevention Poster.

This guide describes the process of identifying, assessing, and controlling the risks of MSI associated with patient handling.

This handbook is written for workers in the field of home and community health care.

This handbook is a guide to health and safety for laboratory workers and employers.

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.

Mainly intended for the health care industry, this book provides an overview of current knowledge on hazardous drugs, describes how to perform a risk assessment and gives examples of best practices for each stage of handling hazardous drugs.