Events

5th Annual Safe Healthcare Conference 2012

at the Victoria Inn Hotel and Convention Centre in Winnipeg

   2012 Conference Registration Package and Form

2011 - 4th Annual Safe Healthcare Conference

Our 4th Annual Safe Healthcare Conference was held on May 9 and 10, 2011 with record attendance. 

View the 2011 Safe Healthcare Conference Program

The following are the presentations from our 2011 conference for download.

Day 1:

Helping our Patients in a Health Way - Burnout Tips and Traps:  Dr. Ray Baker

The Roles of Managers, Supervisors, and Safety & Health Professionals for Maximizing Safety & Health Performance in Healthcare : Deborah Kon, Ethelinda Padua

Medical Notes - When, what and how?: Keith Labossiere

File Documentation and Record Keeping: Karen Clearwater

Workers with Addictions: Creating a Safer
Healthier Workplace - Dr. Ray Baker

Responding to Workplace Mental Illness:  Practical Approaches - Dr. Ray Baker

What does it mean to be Health and Safety
Committee Member - Ed Pschulski

Your Right to Refuse in Healthcare
- Crystal Baldwin

Manual Material Handling - Sylvia Horvath

Mythbusters Immunization - What is the scoop
on influenza vaccination - Dr. Alan Kraut

Global Harmonization - How WHMIS Might Change - June Trottier

Our Safety Meetings Stink - Aaron Field

Day 2:

Risk Management from the Heart - Theo Kowalchuk           (presentation not available)

Participatory Ergonomics - Sylvia Horvath

Provincial Workplace Injury Reduction Advisory Committee - Gloria O’Rourke

Safety and the Aging Worker - Andrew Dolhy

This Training Sucks - Aaron Field

3 Minutes 3 Slides:

Incident Reporting in the Brandon Regional Health Authority

Home Care Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Project from Central Manitoba RHA

Fit to Work

Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Healthcare

Use of Sliders in Material Handling

2010 - 3rd Annual Safe Healthcare Conference

Our 3rd Annual Safe Healthcare Conference was held on May 3 and 4, 2010.  Thank you to all who attended.

Copies of the 2010 presentations are available to download

Day 1:

The Balancing Act: Are You Moving Toward, or Away From  Balance in your Life? - Terri Johnston

Do You Practice Safe Stress - Jill Desilets

Get Your Inside Onside: How to Create a Safety Culture in Your Team- Jim Kingdon

Occupational Injuries - Common Musculoskeletal Disorders and Prevention Strategies - Dr. Neil Craton

So You Have A Missing Patient - Now What? - Dean Campbell and Randy Antonio

3 Minutes - 3 Slides - Safety & Health Success Stories

WRHA MSDS Online - June Trottier

Warm Up Program - Cara Windle and Daryl Dyck

Safe Patient Handling - Susan Thorvaldson

Kitchen Supply Cart - Gail Archer-Heese

INM Process - Deborah Kon

Incident Tracker - Lynn Brambilla

Hourly Rounding - Suzanne Dyck

Day 2:

Respectful Workplace Policy Overview and Definitions - John Van Massenhoven

A Review of Bullying in the Workplace - Janet Schmidt

Rethinking Aggression - The Seven A's of Dementia - Luana Whitbread

Occupational and Environmental Safety & Health Respectful Workplace Program - Jeff Martin

Respectful Workplace and the Role of Human Resources - John Van Massenhoven

Healthcare Security - Jacques Gagne

Patient Safety and Respectful Workplace - More Connected Thank You Think - Dayna Hammond

Respectful Workplace and Your Union - Shauna Briscoe

Manitoba Labour and Immigration Requirements - Jo-anna Guerra  (pending)

Respectful Workplace & Critical Incident Stress - Nancy Phillips

NAOSH Week  May 1 - 7, 2011

North American Occupational Safety and Health Week

The goal: to focus employers, employees, partners and the public on the importance of preventing injury and illness in the workplace, at home and in the community.

NAOSH Week is led by the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE) in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), in concert with the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and partners in Mexico.

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Training

Joint Workplace Safety & Health Committee Training

Managers and Safe Work Workshops

Prevention is 9/10ths of the Law

Duty to Accomodate / Ability Management Workshop

Attendance Management and Attendance Support

Fundamentals Training

HSC Safety and Health Program Training

Joint Workplace Safety & Health Committee Training

This is a general overview of the basics of Workplace Safety and Health. We look at responsibilities, some legislation, regional Policy and specific items such as the Right to Refuse, Injury Near miss program, and duties of an effective committee.

This training applies not only to Safety Committee members, but supervisors and managers as well.

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Managers and Safe Work Workshops

The overall expectation of this project is that managers attending this workshop will be able to meet the following objectives:

• Understand the roles and responsibilities of health care managers/supervisors according to the Workplace Health and Safety Act W210.
• Recognize and understand worker rights and the internal responsibility roles in the workplace.
• Understand the principles and elements of due diligence
• Understand the responsibilities of managers/supervisors, employers workers and the Workplace Safety and Health Division.
• Understand the role of the Safety and Health committees and the Safety and Health officers.
• Recognize and utilize opportunities for Inspections and Incident Investigations
• Have general knowledge of hazard recognition, Job Hazard Analysis, risk assessment, control concepts, safe work procedures and training of workers.
• Understand what is required if an incident should occur in your workplace.
• Understand the contents and responsibilities as they relate to the 11 elements.
  

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Prevention is 9/10ths of the Law

Practical tools for the prevention and management of aggression and violence in the workplace.

• Learn to confidently prevent and manage aggression and violence - no matter where you work
• Know your options for handling difficult situations. Understand the key elements of personal and team safety, from prevention and de-escalation to verbal and physical interventions, without harm to yourself or others
• This program is open to all WRHA employees

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Duty to Accomodate / Ability Management Workshop

What is an employer's obligation when faced with employees whose special needs impact on their ability to do their jobs? How do you address the wide range of situations that may arise, such as an injured employee returning to work, an employee whose religious faith conflicts with his/her job requirements, or an employee with a chronic medical condition?

What processes and approaches are appropriate and effective when planning and implementing a workplace accommodation in a health care setting? What are the roles and responsibilities of the manager, the employee, the insurance company and the union? What medical information can you ask for and how do you use it? How can you handle these situations consistently and fairly, when each case is unique?

This workshop will provide managers with information including the legal obligations arising out of the "Duty to Accommodate". It will clarify the principles that underlie the employer's obligations toward employees who have special needs. It will also provide information on processes and resources that can assist managers in handling these obligations appropriately. Managers will have the opportunity to work with case studies, and to discuss some of their own real world challenges, when addressing the realities of workplace accommodation in health care.

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Attendance Management and Attendance Support

What can you, as a manager, do when employees don't attend work regularly and reliably?

Absenteeism is a common performance management problem. It affects not only individual employees, but also co-workers and the organization as a whole. The causes of attendance problems can be varied and complex.

Through the use of the new Attendance Support and Assistance Program (ASAP) this enhanced full day workshop not only provides information on how to effectively get staff to attend work on a regular basis, but also provides direction on processes to follow when attendance does not improve. Managers will also discuss the specific rights of a manager with respect to:

• Medical certificates
• What managers are entitled to know or question
• What managers are not allowed to ask

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HSC Workplace Safety and Health Training

HSC offers a number of Workplace Safety and Health Program training sessions as follows:

• Accident Investigation for Managers/S & H Committees 
• Bariatric/Non Bariatric Patient Handling and Movement/Falls Prevention
• Completing the Injury/Near Miss Form for Managers
• Conducting Risk Assessments
• Conducting Workplace Inspections
• Evaluation Tool Completion
• Fundamentals of Safety & Health
• HSC WS&H Program Reveiw
• Managers & Safe Work
• Managing WHMIS in the Workplace
• Rights and Responsibilities of Workers
• Safety Committee Training
• Training Plan Development for Managers
• Transport/Diagnostic Imaging Safe Patient Handling and Movement

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