Community Physician Health and Safety Program
Community physicians and their support staff must comply with the regulations to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses. This portal provides physician-specific resources and tools to simplify the process of building a tailored health and safety program for your practice, reducing administrative burdens.
Create your account and
start building your program today
By taking just a few minutes to create an account, you’ll be able to invite collaborators from your clinic and save your progress as you work your way through the program.
- 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.
Workplace health and safety is a team effort
For the system to work, everyone must know and do what is expected of them in their role. When everyone adopts good health and safety practices as part of their regular workplace routine, health and safety standards can be met without external enforcement. We all must do our part in ensuring health and safety at work.