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WorkSafeBC

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

  1. 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] ↩︎

  2. 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 ↩︎

  3. 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 ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. 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 ↩︎

  5. Partners. Cochrane Canada. Retrieved April 22, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.04.22-051708/https://canada.cochrane.org/partners-0 ↩︎

  6. 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 ↩︎

  7. Search. WorkSafeBC. Retrieved December 7, 2023, from https://www.worksafebc.com/en/search#sort=Date&first=260&f:content-type-facet= ↩︎

  8. 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 ↩︎

  9. 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 ↩︎

  10. 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 ↩︎