Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

So let's say you contact the hepatitis A, B, or C, you get sick, and then 20 years down the road, you need a liver transplant.

WSIB ain't going to cover it.

You're not going to be compensated for it.

So there should be no reason for public washrooms If you want to put these washrooms in, make people pay because somebody has to bear the cost of them.

How is the industry dealing with this? We took a look at more data.

We figured out just in Ontario, about 38% of the claims that WSIB gets involved and needs to pay out has to do with bone muscle joint injury.

So we see kind of getting these things get connected to each other that, all right, so people are not confident.

They get the answer wrong.

Great.

Let's now transition directly into changing legal frameworks and analyze the massive regulatory updates hitting our local businesses this year.

So Ashkin, how do WSIB regulatory updates affect first state certification compliance? And what do you suggest business owners should do about it?

That's a very good question.

Ontario's Under the current system, this benefit is not guaranteed.

As it stands, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board can review benefits if a worker does not report a change in the circumstances of their injury or if they've had a change in income.

But advocates say the proposed bill would result in more scrutiny for injured workers and increased uncertainty.

Speaking to Rabble about the potential changes, Steve Mantis, chair of the Research Action Group within the Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups, said this, quote, it's really distressing to see this with one little piece of our social safety net.

The new subway cars for the new subway line could have been bought at Alstom up in Thunder Bay and instead he bought them from the U.S.

He laid off Ontario workers at the WSIB and sent those jobs out down to the U.S. through an American company.

He hired a U.S. company to build Mississauga's new hospital.

He even contracted out highway maintenance to an American company as if Canadians don't know how to plow.

What are Ontario's safest small businesses doing that others aren't? Today's episode is about answering that question.

We're exploring what sets high performing organizations apart, what every employer can learn from their success, and how the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board's redesigned Small Business Safety Awards are recognizing Ontario businesses that are leading the way in occupational health and safety.

It's time for the IHSA Safety Podcast.

Welcome to the IHSA Safety Podcast.

I'm your host, Ken Rayner.

Joining me today is Kerry Briley, Director, Health and Safety Program Design at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, otherwise known to many of us as WSIB.

Welcome to the podcast, Kerry.

Thanks for having me, Ken.

Pain in my ass.

Don't know what's happening with WSIB.

I mean, it's not major, but...

Did you report it to WSIB within 24 hours?

No, the doc, you have to if you go for stitches.

I know, but did you report it? The company has to report it to WSIB.

Yeah.

And tell

I'm way past the point of no return and I needed help 30 years ago and I never got it.

So thankfully through the help of CUSW, WSIB and all of the other avenues of support that us as CUSW members and as Canadians have, I use them and it really helped me

a lot.

And to use those supports, that's what they're for.