Health and Safety
Creating a safe and healthy work environment
At Toronto Rehab, keeping staff, patients and visitors safe and healthy is a priority.
Our Occupational Health and Safety team supports staff health through:
- Ergonomics assessments
- Daily/weekly blood pressure monitoring and support
- Flu vaccine clinics
- Workplace injury and illness prevention and management
- Early and safe return-to-work programs
Our employee and family assistance and wellness programs provide further support, education and activities to help staff remain healthy and active.
Supporting a culture of safety
Our focus on a safe work environment includes a variety of initiatives to ensure staff can do their jobs safely:
- Injury prevention program, including safety training, hazard analysis and risk assessments
- Tracking and follow-up for all safety incidents
- Hospital-wide prevention initiatives such as the “Take 5: Plan to be safe” campaign
- Infection prevention and control initiatives
- WHMIS education and training
- Joint occupational health and safety committees