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Hurt at work?

You should seek medical treatment from a direct access health care provider immediately. Even without pre-approval from the WCB.

Immediate access to treatment has a significant impact on your recovery.

Learn more. 

While workplace safety is everyone’s responsibility, supervisors often have additional responsibilities to protect the health and safety of workers.

To make sure that supervisors are familiar with their workplace safety responsibilities, the WCB offers a FREE online course.

 Here's how to enroll. 

Staying active, productive, and connected to the workplace can help injured workers recover faster.

Often, the most successful Return to Work Plans (RTWP) involve workers remaining at work or losing as little time away from work as possible.

  Learn more.  

The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) is a comprehensive system that provides health and safety information on hazardous products intended for use, handling, production or storage in workplaces.

For workers to protect their health and safety in a workplace, WHMIS education and training must be developed and implemented.

Guide to WHMIS for workplaces. 

Safety Talk Tuesday: Because what you don’t know CAN hurt you.

Yearly, workers across different industries are injured and killed while working in confined spaces.

To make sure workers are safe, employers are responsible for making sure that the confined space is purged and ventilated.

 Learn more about confined space safety procedures. 

First aid is emergency care given to an injured person to help minimize injury and future disability.

 Here's a recent presentation our OHS Manager gave last May, at our Workplace Health and Safety Conference, to help you navigate first aid regulation in PEI workplaces. 

Safety Talk Thursday: Because what you don’t know CAN hurt you.

A properly selected respirator can give workers at risk of exposure to harmful air contaminants or oxygen-deficient atmosphere the protection they need.

Control hazards with a respirator.