WCB

WCB = Workers Compensation Board

What does WCB do?

• Create safety standards
• Regulate safety standards
• Enforces safety standards
• Educates workers about rights
• Handles workers injury claims

Number of Claims (2003)

• 120, 470 claims
• 170 fatal claims
• $ 908,353,308 in injury claims

Top 7 Injury causes

• Lifting Objects (sprains, strains or tears)
• Working at high elevations (sprains, strains, tears or fractures)
• Working with knives (cuts or lacerations)
• Working with Hot substances (burns)
• Using mobile equipment (sprains, strains, tears or fractures)
• Working with food slicers (cuts or lacerations)
• Working near running machinery (cuts, lacerations or fractures)

Reasons Young People Don't Make Claims

• Afraid to lose job
• Intimidation from supervisors
• Afraid of looking foolish
• Unaware of their rights
• had no idea they even could