{"id":2272,"date":"2019-09-12T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/safecarebc.ca\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2023-08-23T12:47:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T19:47:02","slug":"passion-for-health-and-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Passion for Health and Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keri Severinski has been a care aide for over six years and her passion for health and safety in the workplace has made her somewhat of an expert on the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In every place she has worked, Keri has taken on a leadership role when it comes to safety\u2014joining health and safety committees and encouraging her colleagues to prioritize safety for their own benefit, as well as the residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf everybody follows the same standard, then you have a higher standard all around,\u201d she says. \u201cIf everybody runs on the same rules and follows the same path, then things will always run more smoothly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Keri works at The Village Langley, the first dementia village in Canada, which opened last month. Even with the change in workplace and a new environment at the Village, she is able to use the same tools and techniques she has in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m always thinking and looking for safety hazards. Is there a cord or something that can wrap around a resident\u2019s neck or is there something they can trip on?\u201d says Keri. \u201cIs there a cane that should be picked up and not on the floor? Is there a chemical that shouldn\u2019t be left out? I\u2019m always scanning and making sure everything is in a safe place, so nobody gets hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transition to her new workplace has been seamless. She is thankful that her new coworkers prioritize health and safety in the workplace just like she does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverybody has been on the same path where we only want the best for the workers, or the ELFs [Enriched Living Facilitators] as they\u2019re called and the little villagers <\/em>[residents],\u201d she says. \u201cWith everything being so new, we are all so much more aware of what we have around us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her time as a care aide, one of the biggest lessons Keri has learned is that safety in the continuing care sector has huge implications. \u201cIf people aren\u2019t safe, they are unable to do their jobs properly,\u201d she says. \u201cIf we get hurt, we can\u2019t take care of our residents and if we don\u2019t have the right tools to help them the residents get hurt\u2014it can become a vicious cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keri Severinski has been a care aide for over six years and her passion for health and safety in the workplace has made her somewhat of an expert on the subject. In every place she has worked, Keri has taken on a leadership role when it comes to safety\u2014joining health and safety committees and encouraging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-you-do-matters"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-15 22:45:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scbcdev.safecarebc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftopic&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}