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PDF
Size:
Six pages, 8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Workplace safety co-leads, safety committee members, safety champions and frontline workers and supervisors
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This checklist of 32 potential hazards can help safety leaders and team members conduct onsite walk-throughs, identify safety risks in food service units—and make sure problems are resolved.
Format:
PDF
Size:
Six pages, 8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Workplace safety co-leads, safety committee members, safety champions and frontline workers and supervisors
Best used:
Conduct onsite walk-throughs for Environmental Services teams. Use this checklist of 33 potential hazards to identify an issue, propose solutions and take action to resolve the problem.
Format:
PDF
Size:
Five pages, 8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Workplace safety co-leads, safety committee members and safety champions
Best used:
This checklist of 32 potential hazards can help workplace safety leaders and workers conduct onsite walk-throughs and identify safety risks for computer users and office staff.
Format:
PDF
Size:
Six pages, 8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Workplace safety co-leads, safety committee members, safety champions, and frontline workers and supervisors
Best used:
To conduct onsite walkthroughs and identify safety risks in clinical labs.
Angela Chandler and Nee Tang, Pharm.D., didn’t like what they were seeing.
The team co-leads for the West Los Angeles Ambulatory Care Pharmacy crouched beside Camille Wong, scrutinizing her posture as the pharmacist and UNAC/UHCP member sat typing at her computer.
After a quick huddle, the pair worked together to adjust Wong’s chair until she was sitting in the ideal position to protect her from pain—and a potential injury.
“I didn’t know I could adjust my chair this way. It feels good,” Wong said appreciatively, her feet resting flat on the floor and her legs bent at the appropriate 90-degree angle.
Such peer safety rounds are one of the hallmarks of a dramatic shift in culture for the team, a shift that has built engagement and created a workplace where frontline workers feel confident speaking up. The department went 3½ years without injuries and earned a national workplace safety award earlier this year.
“We’re all in it together, and we’re all here for each other,” says Chakana Mayo, a pharmacy technician and UFCW Local 770 member who is the team’s workplace safety champion.
But the situation was not always so bright.
In 2011 and 2012, the department experienced a spate of workplace injuries. Employees, who spend most of their time on phones and computers, were sometimes reluctant to report pain—including one who suffered a repetitive motion injury so severe that it required two surgeries and time off from work.
“It was really a wake-up call,” says Tang, a pharmacy supervisor and the team’s management co-lead. “We needed to make sure that everyone feels comfortable enough to speak up when they have a problem.”
What can your team do to remind each other to use patient-lifting procedures? What else could your team do to prevent injuries when lifting or transporting patients?
Format:
PDF
Size:
8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
UBT health and safety champions
Best used:
Take these ideas from champions and encourage your team members to speak up for safety.
Format:
PDF
Size:
1 page, 8.5" x 11"
Intended audience:
Unit-based team members, team co-leads, sponsors and safety leaders
Best used:
Seven steps that helped one EVS team change the culture and reduce workplace injuries. Use to encourage workplace safety conversations and practices that have worked elsewhere.
Format:
PDF (color and black and white)
Size:
8.5” x 11”
Intended audience:
Frontline employees, managers and physicians
Best used:
This is a good primer during your UBT meetings to encourage team members to speak up when they see hazards.
Format:
PDF (color and black and white)
Size:
8.5” x 11”
Intended audience:
Frontline employees, managers and physicians
Best used:
Share this piece on an EVS team that maximized costs, worker safety and environmental concerns with your UBT to inspire discussion of cutting costs while being green.
