Strategies and Goals

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Objective 1

Promote and support safe workplaces across the health system and support members to achieve a culture of safety where there will be no harm to staff.

  • We believe there are already great injury prevention and safety promotion practices in B.C.
  • We believe health system improvements should be aligned with a provincial approach to health and safety.
  • We believe people who do the work are best suited to help create solutions.
  • We believe reporting should be easy to perform, accessible for all and allow for transparent follow-up.
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Objective 2

Develop and implement a provincial system which allows for equitable access to business intelligence and uses data to drive action, improvement, innovation and change.

  • We believe measurement and evaluation can drive best practice improvements.
  • We believe equitable access to reliable data is essential to drive health system improvements.
  • We believe accountability for system change must be supported with meaningful data to show when changes are effective.

 

Our Goals

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Promote a provincial safety management system in healthcare by developing an OHS provincial framework aligned with Health Safety Management System (HSMS) Canadian Standards Association (CSA) standard.

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Support development of provincial programs, promote best practices, and enhance prevention programs with the goal of improving workplace health and safety and eliminating injuries.

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Promote mental health and wellbeing of health care teams through the development of a provincial framework for mental health and psychological safety aligned with CSA Psychological Safety standard.

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Provide system-wide occupational health and safety (OHS) leadership and engagement to accelerate innovation and improvements and enhance a strong culture of safety for healthcare.
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Establish an integrated and transparent provincial business intelligence system.

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Build and sustain joint occupational health and safety committee (JOHSC) Resource Centre.