Every year, the BC Care Awards celebrate care providers who go above and beyond delivering care to our seniors.
This post features finalists for the Safety Champion Award, with an explanation of why they deserve to win, in the nominators’ own words.
The Safety Champion Award recognizes and celebrates individuals and member organizations who are passionate about promoting a culture of safety, and whose efforts have had a significant impact—something that has made or continues to make a difference in supporting our shared goal of seeing every worker return home safely at the end of day.
Stay tuned for finalist profiles for the BC Care Provider of the Year Award (residential care, assisted living and home health). Winners will be announced in January. The awards will take place on February 19th, 2019 in Victoria.
Louis Brier Home and Hospital
Louis Brier Home and Hospital is wholeheartedly deserving of the Safety Champion Award. Not only the Joint Occupation Health and Safety Committee, but all workers, including management, are passionate about promoting a culture of safety—it’s in our Mission and our Values.
The difference we are making is demonstrated in our statistics—year over year we have seen a decrease in time-loss incidents and we have one of the best experience ratings in the long-term care industry. This means more workers returning home safely at the end of day.
Loretta Lo & Bernie Deato – Fair Haven Homes Society
These nominees deserve this award and recognition because of the true dedication to ensuring that safety huddles occur daily and that the conversation remains positive and proactive.
Loretta and Bernie continually ensure full participation of all staff.
Repetitive activities like these can so easily fall out of favor with leaders, and there are so many other daily activities that could take priority and cause a leader to let the huddles slide. But not for Loretta and Bernie. They are consistently dedicated to making the huddles happen, usually as a team, and sometimes with the support of other departmental managers.
Troy Smith – Brocklehurst Gemstone
Troy is a safety ambassador; he believes that safety and health is everyone’s responsibility and certainly makes this a priority with his positive contributions.
He supports and encourages his team mates to go “beyond the call of duty” to ensure a safe workplace.
He has made the commitment that health and safety is part of his everyday life at work and at home.
Joanne Stiglich – Cascade Lodge (Sienna Senior Living)
Joanne comes to work each day with a smile on her face. When asked if she can help, she is always willing.
She goes above and beyond to ensure our residents and teammates have the safest home and workplace possible.
Joanne is a great teammate, and Cascades is a better place to work because of her.
Erin Terry – Strive Living Society
Erin sets a high standard of health and safety best practices at our organization. She is dedicated to improving our protocol and educating our employees. When we went through our CARF accreditation process and were reviewed by a team of surveyors, they called Erin a “powerhouse” and our health and safety standards passed with flying colours.
Erin takes initiative in health and safety. Each year she coordinates a NAOSH Week Open House at our head office. This features interactive tables and displays encouraging the public to learn about safety and participate. She makes the displays engaging and interesting. Last year we had over 75 people in attendance and feedback was excellent.
Erin’s recent safety campaign earned us Runner Up in the NAOSH Week BC Awards. She was also Runner Up in Safe Care BC’s Safety Den competition. Erin recently became a Mandt System trainer and trains our employees in non-violent crisis intervention.
The Safety Champion Award is sponsored by Points West AV.
