Resources For Teachers

Workers Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island

Resources For Teachers

Every day in our province, young workers are injured on the job. The WCB is committed to raising awareness among our youth of workplace safety, in order to promote safe workplaces now, and in the future.

School teachers have the unique privilege of helping to shape our future workforce. The reality is, while students are busy acquiring skills and knowledge for life careers, they are already spending several hours each week in Island workplaces.

The Youth Education Consultant is available as a resource to you to come into the classroom to speak to students and do some activities to help further integrate their learning around workplace health and safety.

We have also developed a WHMIS 2015: Teacher Primer to coincide with the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), which aligns Canada’s hazard classification and communication requirements with other countries. This will be relevant to you if you teach WHMIS as part of your course curriculum.

Workplace Health & Safety Lessons for Teachers (English/French)

No matter the subject you teach, we encourage all intermediate and high school teachers throughout the province to spend one class period discussing young worker safety. To this end, we have developed a few general presentations/ lessons that you may find helpful:

Safety at work: Make safety a habit / Sécurité au travail : faire de la sécurité une habitude

Are you as safe as you think? / Es-tu aussi en sécurité que tu le crois?

Keeping it safe in the workplace: You have a role to play / La sécurité au lieu de travail : tu as un rôle à jouer

The content of these presentations is general and as such can be considered up-to-date and relevant to teaching about workplace health and safety topics to students on P.E.I.

For more information, please contact Clare at ohs@wcb.pe.ca or (902) 368-6357.

October 23, 2020

Workers Compensation Board of PEI holds assessment rates into 2021

The Workers Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island has announced that 2021 employer assessment rates will be maintained at the 2020 rate levels. “We are pleased that we are able to maintain rates for Island employers and provide some level of certainty in these uncertain times,” said Cheryl Paynter, Chief Executive Officer of the Workers Compensation Board. The cost associated with maintaining 2020 rates for 2021 will be funded from the Workers Compensation Board’s Fund Balance. This announcement comes following a decade of declining assessment rates, strong investment returns, a focus on injury prevention and return to work efforts and generally, an overall strong funded position and a funding policy that focuses on sustainability and minimizing volatility all the while offering service and supports to injured workers. The outbreak of COVID-19 and related responses have impacted economies on a local to global scale. Disruption of normal business operations, contraction of major industries and the volatility experienced in global equity markets have contributed to an uncertain global economic outlook. While it is not yet possible to reliably estimate the long term financial impact of COVID-19, we anticipate that assessment revenues, investment returns, claims costs and benefit liability valuations may all be impacted by COVID-19 well into the future. “The WCB’s funding and rate setting polices are performing in protecting Island workers and employers from extreme fluctuations while ensuring that the current and future costs of workplace accidents are fully funded,” said Jim MacPhee, Chair of the Workers Compensation Board.All Island employers will be advised of their individual assessment rates in December 2020, which are based on the costs of claims and the risks of workplace injury in their industries. For more information on the assessment rate groups, please visit wcb.pe.ca/2021rates.

October 06, 2020

Feedback requested on draft amendments to the OHS Act: confidentiality and limited disclosure

The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Advisory Council is requesting feedback on proposed amendments to section 39 of the OHS Act regarding confidentiality and limited disclosure. A consultation summary is posted on the Legislative Feedback page of the WCB website, www.wcb.pe.ca/Information/LegislativeReview under the heading, "Occupational Health and Safety Act Amendments Confidentiality and Limited Disclosure." The Council encourages stakeholders to provide feedback on the proposed changes by October 30, 2020, using the online feedback form.

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