Employers are required to report and investigate all serious incidents and accidents in the workplace. You must report a serious injury or death of a worker to WorkSafeBC under the Workers Compensation Act.
What do you need to report to WorkSafeBC?
Serious injuries or death of a worker
Injuries requiring medical treatment beyond basic first aid
Incidents where there was a potential for serious injury, even when no injury occurred
An effective and systematic incident investigation program is a key driver to the continuous improvement of your health and safety program, policies. This course will examine the purpose and outcomes of an incident investigation. JHSC members, managers, supervisors or employees will learn how to determine the cause or causes of incidents, to identify any related unsafe conditions or acts, and to recommend corrective actions to prevent similar incidents.
The 8-hour Joint Health and Safety Committees (JHSC) training is required for all new members of a JHSC and new Worker Representatives. It is applicable for any B.C. employer in any industry.
WorkSafeBC has developed an employer incident investigation report (EIIR) template you can use to create all four reports that may be required following an incident in your workplace.
Critical Incident Response Services Diversified Rehabilitation Group has partnered with the Manufacturing Safety Alliance of BC to deliver the Critical Incident Response Service. A Critical Incident is any event outside the usual realm of human experience that is markedly distressing (i.e., evokes reactions of intense fear, helplessness, or horror). Critical Incidents involve a perceived threat […]
Several parts of the Worker’s Compensation Act (WCA) and The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (OHSR) apply to Incident Reporting and Incident Investigation: WCA Part 1 Division 5 Section 53: Worker’s Notification of Injury Section 54: Employer’s Notifications of Injury WCA Part 3 Division 10 Section 172 thru Section 177
An incident investigation is a process that analyses an incident to identify the unsafe acts and conditions that lead to the incident in order to develop control measures to prevent the recurrence of the incident.
The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Regulation and the OHS provisions of the Workers Compensation Act contain legal requirements for workplace health and safety that must be met by all workplaces under the inspection jurisdiction of WorkSafeBC.
The Workers Compensation Act (Act) was revised in 2019 as part of the government’s standard legislative revision process. The Act is organized into eight (8) parts.
Who does this impact? WorkSafeBC has announced that in 2024, as part of their Planned Inspections Initiative, they will be focusing inspections on the following manufacturing classification units (CUs). Historically, workers in these CUs are at higher risk for serious injury....