Northern Health (NH) strives to make our values – empathy, respect, collaboration, and innovation – the core of what we do every day.
The Dr. Charles Jago Awards, named after our former board chair, acknowledge and celebrate NH staff, physicians, and teams who have made outstanding contributions to the organization’s goals, while reflecting our values in the process.
This award is presented to an individual or team who exemplifies outstanding behaviours and actions that demonstrate Northern Health’s value of innovation, by being receptive to new ideas and situations, seeking out opportunities to improve and streamline processes, and contributing to a work environment that encourages creativity, while promoting a culture of safety and quality.
Our recipient in the category of innovation is Helen Styles.
Helen has been a Northern Health employee for 32 years and is currently the Regional Manager of Health Safety and Prevention Program Governance. She spent the first half of her career as a physiotherapist, working in Vancouver and then in Quesnel. She was involved in Northern Health’s pilot project for ceiling lift implementation, which happened to be in Quesnel, and this led to a career transition to Workplace Health and Safety.
During her years with Workplace Health and Safety, Helen has been instrumental in developing and supporting implementation of many health and safety policies and programs, both provincially and in Northern Health, including Safe Patient Handling, Violence Prevention, and Hazardous Drugs Exposure Control.
Helen brings a strategic, systematic, approach to her work and enjoys collaborating to continually improve health and safety in our workplaces.
In the words of the award nomination, “Helen has been the backbone of almost every novel and meticulously written policy, procedure, and resource that the Workplace Health and Safety department has released for Northern Health workers’ safety in the recent times. She has proven fundamental to fostering ideas, mobilizing subject matter experts, showing direction and developing high-caliber resources in order to keep Northern Health up to date with the latest in the health and safety requirements for staff. Helen has been a key figure in transforming, pioneering, and reshaping numerous critical policies, exposure control plans, risk assessments and safe working procedures that have helped NH staff be safe at work.”
Please join us in congratulating Helen Styles, our 2024 Jago Award recipient for innovation!
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