- Managing your Practice
-
Virtual Care
Check out guides and resources to help you better use virtual care and technology to support patients.
-
- Your Benefits
-
Introducing the ultimate Club MD experience
From work to play, and everything in between, we provide you with access to hundreds of deals from recognizable, best-in-class brands, elevating every facet of your life – from practice supports to entertainment, restaurants, electronics, travel, health and wellness, and more. Your Club MD membership ensures that these deals are exclusive to you, eliminating the need to search or negotiate.
Welcome to the ultimate Club MD experience. Your membership, your choices, your journey.
-
- Advocacy & Policy
-
Promoting Good Health
Advocating for better health and improved safety on behalf of British Columbians.
-
- Collaboration
-
Working Together
In partnership with the BC government, we are working to make a difference through collaborative programs.
-
- News & Events
-
Stay Informed
Stay up to date with important information that impacts the profession and your practice. Doctors of BC provides a range of newsletters that target areas of interest to you.
Subscribe to the President's Letter
Subscribe to Newsletters
-
- About Us
-
Our Strategic Plan
Our strategic plan guides us in our work to transform the health care system and improve patient care.
-
You are here
- Home
- News & Events
- Physicians: keep your practice free from violence
You are here
- Home
- News & Events
- Physicians: keep your practice free from violence
News
Upcoming Events
Physicians: keep your practice free from violence
March 7, 2018
News
All employers – including physicians – want to ensure their workplace is free from violence. While we like to think it will never to happen to us, unfortunately, violence does occur in physician practices. Like employers around the province, physicians have a responsibility to ensure your practice and the staff who work for you are safe.
Defining workplace violence
WorkSafeBC defines workplace violence as the attempted or actual exercise of physical force so as to cause injury to a worker, and includes any threatening statement or behaviour that gives a worker reasonable cause to believe he or she is at risk of injury.
Steps to take
The process of keeping your workplace safe doesn’t have to be onerous, and there are a number of steps you can take. Often, the most important piece is simply talking to staff and colleagues about what to do before anything happens.
Another step involves conducting a risk assessment. If the assessment shows that there is a risk of violence, the employer should develop a workplace violence prevention program.
Resources
WorkSafeBC has created a number of resources to support physicians running office-based practices to ensure your workplace is safe. They include the following:
- Violence in the Workplace
- Official WorkSafeBC Policy on Workplace Violence, including Regulations and Employer Obligations
- How to Develop and Implement a Workplace Violence Prevention Program
- Health Care Violence Inspection Checklist
- Health Care High Risk Strategy
You may also want to consider taking a CME accredited training course available through UBC’s Continuing Professional Development.
If you are a physician working in a hospital or facility, we recommend you contact your Heath Authority through Medical Affairs with any safety concerns you may have.