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WCB's mandate is
to:
- Prevent
workplace injuries, diseases, and fatalities
- Rehabilitate
injured workers and returning them to
productive, safe employment
- Provide fair
compensation for workers suffering from an
occupational disease or injury
- Provide sound
financial management for a viable workers'
compensation system
- Protect the
public interest
- 'Falls on same
level' represent 7% of all WCB claims; however,
particular segments such as the industries
suffer higher percentages of all WCB claims,
under this same category.
Restuarant
Hospitality
These losses represent many millions
of avoidable lost bottom line dollars and man hours
for businesses.
The bottom line...
WCB programs are designed to encourage workplace
safety. They reward employers who maintain safe
workplaces and will penalize those who don't. They
measure your safety record by looking at your
claims' costs over a period of time. That period
varies from one firm to the next, but generally, the
larger the firm (and the larger the premiums), the
more WCB relies on data from a three-year window of
experience, and the smaller the firm (and the
smaller the premiums), the more WCB relies on your
overall historical trend.
There are premium savings available to businesses.
WCB encourages workplace safety.
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Excerpts from
“The Workers’ Compensation Act of British Columbia” |
WORKPLACE
INSPECTIONS
General requirement
3.5 Every employer must ensure that regular
inspections are made of
all workplaces, including buildings, structures,
grounds, excavations,
tools, equipment, machinery and work methods and
practices, at
intervals that will prevent the development of
unsafe working conditions.
CORRECTION OF UNSAFE CONDITIONS
Remedy without delay
3.9 Unsafe or harmful conditions found in the course
of an inspection
must be remedied without delay.
REPORTING UNSAFE CONDITIONS
3.10 Whenever a person observes what appears to be
an unsafe or harmful
condition or act, the person must report it as soon
as possible to a
supervisor or to the employer, and the person
receiving the report must
investigate the reported unsafe condition or act and
must ensure that
any necessary corrective action is taken without
delay.
REFUSAL OF UNSAFE WORK
Procedure for refusal
3.12 (1) A person must not carry out or cause to be
carried out any
work process or operate or cause to be operated any
tool,
appliance or equipment if that person has reasonable
cause to
believe that to do so would create an undue hazard
to the health
and safety of any person.
(2) A worker who refuses to carry out a work process
or operate a
tool, appliance or equipment pursuant to subsection
(1) must
immediately report the circumstances of the unsafe
condition to his
or her supervisor or employer.
(3) A supervisor or employer receiving a report made
under
subsection (2) must immediately investigate the
matter and
ensure that any unsafe condition is remedied without
delay.
3.13 (1) A worker must not be subject to
discriminatory action as
defined in section 150 of Part 3 of the Workers
Compensation
Act, because the worker has acted in compliance with
section
3.12, or with an order made by an officer.
BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND EQUIPMENT
Safe premises
4.1 Buildings, structures, excavations, machinery,
equipment, tools and
workplaces must be maintained in such a condition
that workers will
not be endangered.
Slipping and tripping hazards
4.39 (1) Floors, platforms, ramps, stairs and
walkways available for
use by workers must be maintained in a state of good
repair and
kept free of slipping and tripping hazards.
(2) If such areas are taken out of service the
employer must take
reasonable means for preventing entry or use.
Wet floors
4.40 If a work process results in a liquid
accumulating on the floor or
grade surface in a work area and the liquid creates
a slipping or other
hazard, floor drains or other suitable means must be
used to control
the hazard.
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