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Workplace Safety

These pages provide information about existing workplace hazards and what VIHA has put in place to minimize risk to staff.

Safety Profile Project: The Safety Profile Project has been developed to identify and quantify key safety issues and to increase safety awareness of staff on patient care units.

Workplace Inspections: How the workplace inspection process works, and how Occupational Health and Safety supports the process. 

Exposures: What to do if you are exposed to hazardous substances, how to prevent exposures, and how to protect yourself, including: 

Violence Prevention: Educational materials and other resources to help you assess the risk of workplace violence, prevent it before it happens, or safely deal with it when it does. 

Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention (MSIP): Programs and resources to reduce the risk of workplace injuries, including safe work practices, body mechanics and assistive equipment.  

Hazard Identification and Reporting: How to spot potential hazards of all kinds in the workplace, and how to report them.

Joint Occupational Health and Safety (JOHS) Committees: Resources for committee members.

Preventing, Slips, Trips, and Falls:  Educational materials and other resources to help prevent slips, trips, and falls.