Community Physician Health and Safety Program
Create your account and start building your program today
- Simple signup process
- No stored/shared clinic information
- Save progress with interactive checklists
- Add team members to collaborate on tasks
- Access urgent help from safety professionals
- Pre-filled, print-ready policy templates
Who’s it for
This provincial program, with an interactive and easily digestible format, has been developed
for use by all community physicians and support staff in British Columbia.
The program has been designed to support and enhance workplace health and safety and
ensure you can easily meet requirements, reduce your risks, and ultimately make your clinic
safer for staff and patients. It can be used in all work settings, such as, but not limited to:
Physicians in community practice settings
Private offices
Medical clinics
After hours and walk-in clinics
Private, non-health authority, accredited diagnostic and treatment facilities
Non-hospital surgical facility
Diagnostic imaging
Medical laboratories
Pulmonary function laboratories
Clinical neurophysiology
Cardiac exercise stress testing
Physicians as workers and as supervisors in other work settings
Primary Care Networks (PCNs)*
Clinics
Medical/surgical facilities
*Where allied health providers who are employed by the health authority are working in community physicians’ offices
Who it’s not for
This program is not intended for physicians who are exclusively hospital-based, who are employees and/or those covered under Health Authority Medical Affairs/Occupational Health and Safety policies. This includes most physicians when they are working in the hospitals such as emergency doctors, surgeons, internal medicine, pediatricians, ICU physicians, and more.
This program is also not intended for podiatrists, chiropractors, dentists, nurse practitioners, psychologists, and naturopaths.
