The Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia, operating as WorkSafeBC, is a Canadian provincial government agency owned by the Government of British Columbia. It is based in Richmond, British Columbia.
History
In September 2007, WorkSafeBC published a report titled "Sustaining Health Care Professionals during Pandemic Influenza: A Pre-incident Pilot Project", which stated that "[f]or several years, the World Health Organization and other national and international health organizations have advised health care authorities in every country to be prepared for a pandemic outbreak of a new strain of influenza virus that is likely to occur in the near future."[1] The research was conducted by the Centre for Practitioner Renewal, Providence Health Care and the University of British Columbia (UBC).
COVID-19
WorkSafeBC purchased advertising airtime from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 2020-2022.[2]
Allan Seckel was appointed as the inaugural Fair Practices Commissioner on May 1, 2023.[3]
Organization
WorkSafeBC is partnered with the British Columbia Chiropractic Association (BCCA)[4] and Cochrane Canada,[5] and has received funding from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC).[6]
Personnel
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Allan Seckel | Fair Practices Commissioner[3:1] | LIFT Impact Partners, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), Legal Aid BC |
Activities
WorkSafeBC has provided funding to:[7]
- Air BC
- Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia (APBC)
- ASTC Science World Society[8]
- BC Cancer Agency
- BC Ferries
- Beedie School of Business
- British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
- Canadian Forest Products
- Capital Health Region (CHR)
- City of Burnaby
- Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
- Cowichan Valley Health Care Society
- Diabetes Canada[9]
- Greater Victoria School District
- Institute of Health Promotion Research
- Juan de Fuca Hospitals
- Justice Institute of British Columbia
- LC Line Contractors Association of British Columbia
- Mental Health, Law, and Policy Institute
- North West Loggers Association
- Northern Interior Forest Training Initiative (NIFTI)
- School of Criminology
- Simon Fraser University (SFU)
- St. Paul's Hospital
- Tetra Society of North America
- Trillium Lodge
- University of British Columbia (UBC)
- VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation[10]
- Work Health Foundation
Publications
- September 2007: Sustaining Health Care Professionals during Pandemic Influenza: A Pre-incident Pilot Project
- 2010: H1N1, Perceived Risk and Decisions across Health Care Occupations
External links
Kuhl, D., MacNutt, L., Whitehead, P., & Carrier, D. (2007, September). Sustaining Health Care Professionals during Pandemic Influenza: A Pre-incident Pilot Project. WorkSafeBC. https://web.archive.org/web/20231207021127/https://www.worksafebc.com/en/resources/about-us/research/sustaining-health-care-professionals-during-pandemic-influenza-a-pre-incident-pilot-project?lang=en&origin=s&returnurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worksafebc.com%2Fen%2Fsearch#sort%3DDate%26first%3D170%26f%3Acontent-type-facet%3D[Research] ↩︎
Final Release Package A-2023-00059 CBC, Advertising Companies. CBC/Radio-Canada. Retrieved October 1, 2023, from https://archive.org/details/final-release-package-a-2023-00059-cbc-advertising-companies ↩︎
Fair practices commissioner. WorkSafeBC. Retrieved November 30, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.11.30-215536/https://www.worksafebc.com/en/about-us/fairness-privacy/fair-practices-commissioner ↩︎ ↩︎
BCCA Partners. BC Chiropractic Association. Retrieved April 16, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230416044806/https://www.bcchiro.com/chiropractic-member-centre/partners-bc-chiropractic-association/#1558481408788-54911f63-c731 ↩︎
Partners. Cochrane Canada. Retrieved April 22, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.04.22-051708/https://canada.cochrane.org/partners-0 ↩︎
Holt, C. (2022). Statements and Schedules of Financial Information - Year Ended March 31, 2022 (pp. 109–149). Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. https://web.archive.org/web/20240223001250mp_/https://assets.ctfassets.net/nnc41duedoho/7pjbdqMYDPd79wy3lLbQ9m/43708ff405a5720fc860dcd7adcb79db/stmtschedulesfinancialinfo-2021-22.pdf ↩︎
Search. WorkSafeBC. Retrieved December 7, 2023, from https://www.worksafebc.com/en/search#sort=Date&first=260&f:content-type-facet= ↩︎
Slusarchuk, C. (2022, May 12). 2021/22 Annual Report. Science World. https://web.archive.org/web/20220928201947/https://www.scienceworld.ca/wp-content/uploads/20220512_2217_AnnualReport_05d.pdf ↩︎
2020 Impact Report. (2020). Diabetes Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20220121173802/https://diabetes.ca/DiabetesCanadaWebsite/media/AboutDiabetesCanada/Finance/DC-2020-Impact-Report-DIGITAL.pdf ↩︎
Nanji, N., & Grantham, B. (2018). Annual Report 2017-2018. VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20220205034657/https://vghfoundation.ca/app/uploads/2018/12/Annual-Report-2017-18-web.pdf ↩︎
