RESPECTFUL WORKPLACE POLICY & Dispute Resolution

The Island Health Residency Program and the Island Health organization maintains a respectful workplace. The following text is taken from Island Health’s Respectful Workplace Policy:

Island Health’s Vision, Purpose and Values provide the foundation for developing a respectful workplace culture. Respect is identified as one of our Values and reflects a shared core belief in valuing each individual and bringing trust to every relationship.

Our Values relate to a Respectful Workplace culture as:

The Courage to take on difficult conversations, in Respectful and Empathetic ways as we Aspire to build the workplace in which we all wish to work.

Island Health is committed to:

ensuring that all individuals are treated with dignity and respect, free from discrimination and harassment and supported in managing workplace differences; and

providing an environment that respects and promotes human rights and personal dignity.

Island Health supports the principle that all individuals, patients, clients, residents and visitors are entitled to a work and service environment that is free from any form of discrimination and discriminatory harassment.

Island Health supports the maintenance of Respectful Workplaces by providing a dispute resolution process (see link to procedure manual below):

ISLAND HEALTH POLICY DOCUMENTS RESPECTFUL WORKPLACE & dispute resolution policies (download both documents as PDFs at bottom of Page)

dispute resolution policy

The Island Health administration provides policies & procedures for the reporting, resolving and/or investigating respectful workplace & human rights complaints.