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Make the Workplace Safer: Pharmacy 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 checklist of 24 potential workplace hazards can help safety leaders and pharmacy team members conduct walk-throughs, identify safety risks, propose solutions and resolve problems.

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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

Best used:
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

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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

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

Story body part 1: 

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.”

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