Workers Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island
WCB policies are the foundation for the decisions that we make to protect Island workers and employers, and to promote workplace safety.
Our policies contain the rules the WCB applies when interpreting the Workers Compensation Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Our program and governance policies are available online through the table of contents below. If you can't find the policy you are looking for, please contact us.
Table of Contents
For find out more about the WCB policy development process and how you can become involved, click here.
Policies
WCB policies are the foundation for the decisions that we make to protect Island workers and employers, and to promote workplace safety.
Our policies contain the rules the WCB applies when interpreting the Workers Compensation Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Our program and governance policies are available online through the table of contents below. If you can't find the policy you are looking for, please contact us.
Table of Contents
Introduction
General WCB Policies
Claims
- Clothing Allowance (POL-44)
- Home Modifications And Special Equipment (POL-131)
- Medical Aid (POL-92)
- Medical Cannabis (POL-153)
- Medications (POL-120)
- Orthoses, Prostheses, And Assistive Devices (POL-30)
- Prescription Eyewear (POL-06)
- Travel And Related Expenses (POL-03)
- Transportation Assistance (POL-73)
- Adjustments To Pensions (POL-81)
- Annuity (POL-154)
- Decision Making (POL-160)
- Impairment (POL-89)
- Interest on Delayed Compensation Payments (POL-02)
- Legal Costs (POL-05)
- Overpayments To Service Providers (POL-28)
- Overpayments To Workers (POL-27)
- Pension Awards – Commutation (POL-08)
- Pension Replacement Benefits (POL-124)
- Survivor Benefits (POL-12)
- Third Party Actions (POL-87)
Entitlement
Conditions/Injuries
Health Care Services
Medical Aid
Return to Work
Wage Loss Benefits
General
Employer Services
- Apportionment (POL-58)
- Assessable Payroll and Assessment Billing (POL-14)
- Audit Of Employer Accounts (POL-45)
- Clearance Certification (POL-15)
- Employer Classification (POL-42)
- Employer Registration (POL-19)
- Interjurisdictional Trucking – Alternative Assessment (POL-142)
- Optional Coverage (POL-125)
- Personal Coverage (POL-22)
- Self-Insured Employer – Administration Fee (POL-123)
- Setting Assessment Rates (POL-23)
- Transfer Of Employer Cost Experience (POL-39)
Workplace Safety and Prevention
Finance
Board of Directors
- Board – Chief Executive Officer Relationship, Chief Executive Officer Role (POL-111)
- Board – Chief Executive Officer Relationship, Delegation To The Chief Executive Officer (POL-40)
- Board – Chief Executive Officer Relationship, Monitoring Chief Executive Officer Performance (POL-112)
- Ends, Ends (POL-114)
- Ends, Mission and Values (POL-113)
- Executive Limitations, Asset Protection (POL-96)
- Executive Limitations, Communication and Counsel To The Board Of Directors (POL-98)
- Executive Limitations, Compensation And Benefits (POL-97)
- Executive Limitations, Emergency Executive Succession (POL-99)
- Executive Limitations, Financial Conditions and Activities (POL-100)
- Executive Limitations, Financial Planning and Budgeting (POL-101)
- Executive Limitations, General Executive Constraint (POL-95)
- Executive Limitations, Staff Treatment (POL-102)
- Executive Limitations, Treatment Of Clients (POL-103)
- Governance Process, Agenda Planning (POL-105)
- Governance Process, Board Meetings (POL-135)
- Governance Process, Board Members’ Code Of Conduct (POL-37)
- Governance Process, Board Members’ Mandate (POL-106)
- Governance Process, Chair’s Role (POL-107)
- Governance Process, Committee Principles (POL-108)
- Governance Process, Committee Structure (POL-109)
- Governance Process, Governance Commitment (POL-104)
- Governance Process, Governing Style (POL-110)
- Governance Process, Remuneration – Board Of Directors (POL-56)
Policy Index - Alphabetical
- Access to Information - Employer Assessment Files (POL-18)
- Access to Information - Worker Claim Files (POL-04)
- Accident Investigation (POL-54)
- Adjustments To Pensions (POL-81)
- Allergies (POL-69)
- Annuity (POL-154)
- Apportionment (POL-58)
- Assessable Payroll and Assessment Billing (POL-14)
- Audit Of Employer Accounts (POL-45)
- Benefit Assignment (POL-55)
- Board – Chief Executive Officer Relationship, Chief Executive Officer Role (POL-111)
- Board – Chief Executive Officer Relationship, Delegation To The Chief Executive Officer (POL-40)
- Board – Chief Executive Officer Relationship, Monitoring Chief Executive Officer Performance (POL-112)
- Chiropractic Services (POL-25)
- Clearance Certification (POL-15)
- Clothing Allowance (POL-44)
- Collateral Benefits (POL-41)
- Conditions for Entitlement (POL-71)
- Decision Making (POL-160)
- Employer Classification (POL-42)
- Employer Registration (POL-19)
- Ends, Ends (POL-114)
- Ends, Mission and Values (POL-113)
- Executive Limitations, Asset Protection (POL-96)
- Executive Limitations, Communication and Counsel To The Board Of Directors (POL-98)
- Executive Limitations, Compensation And Benefits (POL-97)
- Executive Limitations, Emergency Executive Succession (POL-99)
- Executive Limitations, Financial Conditions and Activities (POL-100)
- Executive Limitations, Financial Planning and Budgeting (POL-101)
- Executive Limitations, General Executive Constraint (POL-95)
- Executive Limitations, Staff Treatment (POL-102)
- Executive Limitations, Treatment Of Clients (POL-103)
- Extended Wage Loss Benefits (POL-85)
- Federal Government Employees (POL-140)
- Federal/ Provincial Jurisdiction (POL-50)
- Fraud Prevention and Investigation (POL-80)
- French Language Service and Communications/Services en français et communications (POL-155)
- Funding Policy (POL-136)
- Governance Process, Agenda Planning (POL-105)
- Governance Process, Board Meetings (POL-135)
- Governance Process, Board Members’ Mandate (POL-106)
- Governance Process, Board Members’ Code Of Conduct (POL-37)
- Governance Process, Chair’s Role (POL-107)
- Governance Process, Committee Principles (POL-108)
- Governance Process, Committee Structure (POL-109)
- Governance Process, Governance Commitment (POL-104)
- Governance Process, Governing Style (POL-110)
- Governance Process, Remuneration – Board Of Directors (POL-56)
- Health Care Providers (POL-64)
- Hearing Loss (POL-09)
- Home Modifications And Special Equipment (POL-131)
- Impairment (POL-89)
- Interest on Delayed Compensation Payments (POL-02)
- Interjurisdictional Claims (POL-143)
- Interjurisdictional Trucking – Alternative Assessment (POL-142)
- Internal Reconsideration (POL-48)
- Investment Of Board Funds (POL-36)
- Learners (POL-94)
- Legal Costs (POL-05)
- Massage Therapy (POL-158)
- Medical Aid (POL-92)
- Medical Cannabis (POL-153)
- Medications (POL-120)
- Occupational Disease (POL-65)
- Offences And Penalties (POL-144)
- Optional Coverage (POL-125)
- Orthoses, Prostheses, And Assistive Devices (POL-30)
- Overpayments To Service Providers (POL-28)
- Overpayments To Workers (POL-27)
- Pension Awards – Commutation (POL-08)
- Pension Replacement Benefits (POL-124)
- Personal Coverage (POL-22)
- Physiotherapy Services (POL-26)
- Policy Development And Maintenance (POL-121)
- Pre-Existing Conditions (POL-61)
- Prescription Eyewear (POL-06)
- Prosecution (POL-119)
- Psychological Or Psychiatric Condition (POL-01)
- Recurrence (POL-60)
- Repetitive Strain Injuries (POL-91)
- Respiratory Diseases (POL-66)
- Responsibilities Of Recovering Workers (POL-76)
- Return To Work (POL-93)
- Safety Association Funding (POL-149)
- Self-Employment Program (POL-11)
- Self-Insured Employer – Administration Fee (POL-123)
- Setting Assessment Rates (POL-23)
- Support For Independent Living (POL-82)
- Survivor Benefits (POL-12)
- Temporary Wage Loss Benefits (POL-86)
- Third Party Actions (POL-87)
- Time Frame Limitations For Claims Filing And Invoicing (POL-90)
- Transfer Of Employer Cost Experience (POL-39)
- Transportation Assistance (POL-73)
- Travel And Related Expenses (POL-03)
- Vocational Rehabilitation (POL-117)
- Waiting Period (POL-84)
- Worker (POL-74)
- Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal Decision Implementation (POL-88)
- Workplace Inspections (POL-53)
For find out more about the WCB policy development process and how you can become involved, click here.
