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Make the Workplace Safer: Nurses and Workers in Direct Patient Care

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

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This checklist of 30 potential workplace hazards can help safety leaders and patient care workers conduct onsite walk-throughs, identify safety risks, propose solutions and make sure any problems identified are resolved.

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Make the Workplace Safer: Material and Supplies Management

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

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This checklist of 32 potential workplace hazards can help safety leaders and supply team members conduct walk-throughs, identify safety risks, propose solutions and resolve problems.

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Make the Workplace Safer: Imaging Tech 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:
This 30-item checklist can help safety leaders and imaging team members conduct walk-throughs, identify safety risks, propose solutions and ensure problems are resolved.

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Make the Workplace Safer: Food Service Workers

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:
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.

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Make the Workplace Safer: Environmental Services

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.

 

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Make the Workplace Safer: Computer Users

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.

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Make the Workplace Safer: Clinical Lab 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. 

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Why We Speak Up

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Workplace injuries vanish almost entirely after these pharmacy workers find their voice

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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.

Shift in culture

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.”

Meet Your National Agreement: Champions for Health and Safety

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By helping create a better workplace, new advocates also help improve patient care

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Rotonya Parker decided her journey to a healthier lifestyle could use some traveling companions.

She was already eating better and being more active when she learned that her unit-based team needed a Health and Safety Champion.

“I thought I should volunteer because doing it as a team would be an extra incentive,” says Parker, an external referral coordinator in Atlanta and a member of UFCW Local 1996. Since stepping up, she’s shared healthy recipes with her team and is planning a contest to see who walks the most.

Her activities help her UBT fulfill part of the 2015 National Agreement: The latest Path to Performance requires that Level 1 UBTs identify a Health and Safety Champion, who will help build the “culture of health and safety” required of Level 5 teams.

UBTs began identifying champions last fall. In January, they all received “Walk & Roll” buttons to help encourage their colleagues. They got going with an emphasis on walking and moving. In February, the theme was speaking up at work about safety concerns. Each month has a new focus.

With 32 years at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles under his belt, Darren “Tree” Wallace, a lead attendant in environmental services (EVS), offered to be his UBT’s champion. EVS departments frequently have a higher rate of workplace injuries, Wallace notes, so safety is key. Members of his UBT share daily tips about everything from how to avoid needle sticks to the proper way to push and pull.

“You don’t want to be old, retired and injured,” says Wallace, a member of SEIU-UHW. “You have to make sure your body is safe at work and at home.”

Take a break to thrive

For Johnyia King Turner, RN, a UFCW Local 400 member in the Mid-Atlantic States, volunteering to help her UBT as a champion was an obvious choice. Turner, who recently began working in Gastroenterology at Largo Medical Center in Maryland, frequently held two-minute thrive breaks when she worked at Capitol Hill Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

“We did squats, wall push-ups or ran in place,” Turner says. As lead nurse, she also presented safety messages in UBT meetings and paused during the workday to have quick safety conversations.

She says the messages were well received: “If you are not healthy and you are not safe, it decreases productivity and we can’t assist the members.” 

She’s excited to have a formal title to go with her passion. “I have my Walk & Roll button, and I encourage everyone to walk the stairs,” she says—and adds, laughing, “Now that I’m official, I can really go run my mouth and tell people what they need.”

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