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.
If you can't find the policy you are looking for in the table of contents below, 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.
If you can't find the policy you are looking for in the table of contents below, please contact us.
Table of Contents
General WCB Policies
Claims
- Health Care Benefits – General Principles (POL-92)
- Chiropractic Services (POL-25)
- Clothing Allowance (POL-44)
- Health Care Providers (POL-64)
- Home Modifications And Special Equipment (POL-131)
- Massage Therapy (POL-158)
- Medical Cannabis (POL-153)
- Medications (POL-120)
- Orthoses, Prostheses, And Assistive Devices (POL-30)
- Physiotherapy Services (POL-26)
- Prescription Eyewear (POL-06)
- Support For Personal Independence (POL-82)
- Travel And Related Expenses (POL-03)
- Transportation Assistance (POL-73)
- Adjustments To Pensions (POL-81)
- Annuity (POL-154)
- Decision Making (POL-160)
- Employer Role in Worker Recovery and Return to Work (POL-165)
- 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)
- Worker Role in Recovery and Return to Work (POL-76)
Entitlement
Conditions/Injuries
Health Care Benefits
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)
- 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
Policy Index - Alphabetical
- Access to Information - Employer Assessment Files (POL-18)
- Access to Worker Claim Information (POL-04)
- Accident Investigation (POL-54)
- Adjustments To Pensions (POL-81)
- Annuity (POL-154)
- Apportionment (POL-58)
- Assessable Payroll and Assessment Billing (POL-14)
- Audit Of Employer Accounts (POL-45)
- Benefit Assignment (POL-55)
- Chiropractic Services (POL-25)
- Clothing Allowance (POL-44)
- Collateral Benefits (POL-41)
- Conditions for Entitlement (POL-71)
- Decision Making (POL-160)
- Disclosure of Occupational Health and Safety Information (POL-161)
- Employer Classification (POL-42)
- Employer Registration (POL-19)
- Employer Role in Worker Recovery and Return to Work (POL-165)
- Extended Wage Loss Benefits (POL-85)
- Federal Government Employees (POL-140)
- Federally Regulated Workplaces (POL-50)
- Fraud Prevention and Investigation (POL-80)
- French Language Service and Communications/Services en français et communications (POL-155)
- Funding Policy (POL-136)
- Health Care Benefits – General Principles (POL-92)
- 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 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)
- 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 Personal Independence (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)
- Worker Role in Recovery and Return to Work (POL-76)
- 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.