Improving Safety in Your Workplace
The North Okanagan Health and Safety Committee is new and is actively seeking physician input on any workplace safety concerns that you have identified and feel requires addressing. The Committee will consider all opportunities to improve the safety culture at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital and Vernon’s non-facility based partner organizations, including community health, mental health, and allied health.
By fostering a culture of collective ownership and responsibility, the intention is that hospital staff, patients and physicians alike, can trust that they are working at, or visiting, a hospital facility where all involved make safety a priority and take opportunities to mitigate the risk of harm. Optimizing and ensuring employee and physician well-being with the provision of wellness training and education resources is a cornerstone to the Committee’s mandate. This committee was also created to celebrate and broadly share successes and achievements throughout the North Okanagan in improving workplace safety for all concerned.
You are encouraged to raise any identified workplace health and/or safety concern(s) to your chief of staff or your sitting physician representative, Dr. Yann Brierley.