This is a joke, and even worse is dangerous. I believe a case can be made for Alberta Employment and Immigration to be culpable for serious injuries and fatalities.
This data is valueless for assessing safety. The statement about "Lost Time Rate" providing a statistical probability for injury in a year is absurd. I was hoping that releasing numbers would cause industry to request more accurate data given that the data was unfairly depicting safety performance i.e. poor performance surcharge, severity rates, modified work days etc and there would be a hew and cry for better metrics. As this stands currently it is a mere shrug beyond looking at fatalities.
If anything these numbers will cause corporate decision makers to further believe there are no issues leading to eventual catastrophe. Further more this will not drive safety but place more emphasis on modified work programs. Perhaps the one silver lining may be that industry will look and see where time loss is originating. After 22 years of reviewing claim files, three of which were as an employee of WCB, it is my opinion that WCB’s inconsistent adjudication, failure to follow procedures, along with the bureaucracy is responsible for the majority of time loss with minor injury events.
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