Goal: To share OHSAH Successes with stakeholders in Winnipeg faced with similar issues.
Additional Funders: Manitoba WCB
Main Partners: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
The objectives of this project were to:
- Describe the current state of programs in occupational health and safety in the healthcare sector in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
- Make best practices more readily available for sharing across the sector.
- Determine the feasibility of various approaches and begin to build the infrastructure to address these needs.
- A questionnaire administered to the chief executive officers/executive directors.
- A needs assessment questionnaire administered to co-chairs of the joint safety and health committees/safety representatives and occupational health nurses.
Results
- Biomechanical (ergonomic) hazard controls for the homecare sub-sector are low. The extent of coverage in homecare is markedly lower than it is in urban hospitals and in personal care homes. Homecare poses a considerable risk of injury, with WCB premium rates being comparable.
- A committee is needed to investigate biological control hazard programs. Urban hospitals have the most developed biological hazard control programs – regionalized hospitals need to borrow from urban hospitals’ programs to develop better courses.
- Recommendations need to be devised for some sub-sectors that ranked low with respect to immunization and pre-placement assessments.
- Sharing between sub-sectors of emergency-response programs would be beneficial.
- Quality and/or implementation of the employee orientation program should be reviewed.
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Toward Building an Effective & Efficient Regional Occupational Health Program for the Healthcare Sector in Winnipeg
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Last Updated: December 22, 2006.