- Manitoba students awarded for showing the importance of safe work March 26, 2024
March 26, 2024 (Winnipeg) – SAFE Work Manitoba, a division of the Workers Compensation Board, has announced the winners of its annual Norm the Safety Contest. The annual contest invites high-school students across the province to use creativity to show young Manitobans how to “Make Safety the Norm”.
Continue reading → - Free e-course launches to address domestic violence in the workplace March 25, 2024
What happens when domestic violence follows victims to work?
The New Brunswick Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence (DIPV) in the Workplace Committee has launched a new 5 Module E-Course entitled It’s Your Business: A Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence (DIPV) Workplace Toolkit.
Continue reading → - Safe Work Manitoba: Training Portal Campaign Launches March 21, 2024
The SAFE Work Manitoba Training Portal is a robust platform housing both SAFE Work Endorsed Training and general training courses. This centralized hub enables workers, employers, and
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training providers to conveniently access and manage safety and health training through a single, user-friendly portal. - Protecting Lives: National Poison Prevention Week 2024 March 21, 2024
As we observe National Poison Prevention Week, it’s crucial to shed light on a silent yet deadly threat that often goes unnoticed: carbon monoxide poisoning.
Continue reading → - WCB releases 2023 provincial workplace injury statistics March 19, 2024
Workplace injury and fatality rates dropped across the province last year
- Total injury rate is the lowest in the province’s recorded history
- 2023 Total injury rate was 3.95 per 100 workers compared to 4.33 in 2022, an 8.78 per cent decrease
- 2023 Time Loss (Time Loss + fatalities) injury rate was 1.78 per 100 workers compared to 2.04 in 2022, which represents a 12.75 per cent decrease
Continue reading → - WCB NS welcomes two new Board Members March 18, 2024
The Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Labour, Skills and Immigration, has appointed two new members to the WCB Nova Scotia Board of Directors.
Continue reading → - Join us at the Fredericton or Moncton home show March 14, 2024
Wondering if your home office is set up safely? Do you have questions on sitting or standing postures, wrist position, laptop use or sit-stand desks?
Continue reading → - Empowering our workforce: the Workers Compensation Board’s 2024-2026 roadmap March 13, 2024
The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) of PEI has released its 2024-2026 Strategic Plan which focuses on three core areas: its team, the complex and evolving needs of its clients, and business transformation.
Continue reading →- WCB Nova Scotia launches new Strategic Plan with commitment to protect more March 8, 2024
(Halifax, NS) – With new leadership, a new vision and improving and much more financial stability than ever before, WCB Nova Scotia is setting out to protect more Nova Scotians and more workplaces through a bold, ambitious and optimistic strategic plan that aims to become one of the top-performing WCBs in Canada by 2030.
Continue reading →- Support to obtain professional designations in disability management/return to work 2024 March 7, 2024
- WCB Nova Scotia launches new Strategic Plan with commitment to protect more March 8, 2024