WorkSafeNB focuses on high-risk industries to reduce injuries and promote a safety culture in New Brunswick workplaces. It has identified nursing homes as a high-risk industry.

Injuries stemming from material handling and client handling are common. To help reduce the frequency and severity of these injuries, WorkSafeNB has been working since 2012 with the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes. As a result, between 2011 and 2015, the number of lost-time claims among nursing home workers fell 27%. There is still work to do. Here are some resources we hope will help nursing home administrators and workers keep their workplaces safe.

Resources

• Videos:
  Supervision in Health Care
  Working with Dementia
• Reporting Examples for Nursing Homes: Incident/Accident and Exposure
• New Brunswick Continuing Care Safety Association
  
• Electronic Form 67
  
  
• Back In Form:
  • Pamphlet: Transfer Belts
  • Poster: Warm-Up and Stretch
  • Pamphlet: Warm-Up and Stretch Companion Guide
  • Pocket Card: Warm-Up and Stretch
  • Video: Warm-Up and Stretch
  • Book: Developing a Code of Practice for Client Handling
  • Back In Form Master Trainers
• Workplace Violence Toolkit*:
• How to use this toolkit
• Flow chart with steps to follow in the event of a violent incident
• Roles and Responsibilities of Residents and Their Sponsors
• Roles and Responsibilities of Board Members
• Roles and Responsibilities of Management
  
• Roles and Responsibilities of Workers
• PSHSA Violence Risk Assessment Scale
• Workplace Violence Assessment Tools
• Poster
• Pamphlet

*The Nursing Home Workplace Violence Prevention working Group is a collaboration between the New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes (NBANH), the New Brunswick Nurses Union (NBNU), WorkSafeNB and the New Brunswick Continuing Care Safety Association (NBCCSA). As a result of an agreement between NBNU and NBANH, this collaboration is working to identify, develop and implement resources and tools to reduce incidents of workplace violence.