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
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