Health and Safety Champions

Make the most of LMP Videos

Thank you for watching our video! The LMP communications team created it with the hope that you would watch and be inspired to share it with your coworkers and friends.

Videos are one of the most popular and effective ways to educate, entertain and inspire. (YouTube gets more than 1 billion unique visitors every month!)

You have the power to inspire your colleagues and help spread the word about the work that’s being done in partnership by posting a video to your Facebook page or showing it at your next meeting. 

If you are a team co-lead, show it at your next unit-based team meeting. If you are a manager, play it at your next managers' meeting. Facility and regional leaders—share it with other leaders.

Afterward, spend a few minutes asking for viewers' reactions and dicussing takeaways from the video. Are there practices that you or you team can copy?

Videos are time well spent in a meeting. You’ll engage your audience in a way that live presentations often don’t.

And you will have helped strengthened our Labor Management Partnership.

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Silbia Espinoza, RN, strives to climb any mountain. Literally.

“I’m not what you would call a ‘normal’ person,” Espinoza says with a laugh. “I work a 12-hour shift and go straight to the gym. I can’t work out for less than an hour and 10 minutes!”

Espinoza, a UNAC/UHHP member who works in Southern California at the Baldwin Park Medical Center Intensive Care Unit, has been her department’s health and safety champion for two years.

Making wellness routine

“My manager, Celso Silla, volunteered me to be the champ,” she says. “Now people are always asking me when we can go out on walks and hikes.”

For example, one Saturday morning early last year, she and 14 co-workers, outfitted with sunscreen, water, protein bars and hats, took a steep, six-mile hike to and from the Hollywood sign. “It was fun!” she says.

They also work wellness into their daily routine. “Even when we attended a nursing conference, we decided to power walk instead of taking Uber,” she says. “People said afterward they had never lost weight by being at a conference.”

Remedy for stress

Espinoza’s drive to workout comes in part from the demands of her job. “Working in the ICU is very stressful. I have all this energy after work,” she says. “After working out I go home calmer and can think clearly.”

One change Espinoza has seen in her two years as a champ is healthier snacks at meetings and in the break room. Fresh fruits and veggies have replaced cookies and doughnuts.

“I like that I can be a role model,” Espinoza says. “I like the results I see in myself, and I feel great that my co-workers tell me how much weight they’ve lost or how many steps they’ve completed. All any of us needs is someone to encourage and guide us.”