The goal of managing a claim is to return the worker to a productive working life. This requires the active participation of the worker, the employer and the health care community, working with the WCB in a co-operative relationship.
Effective claims management begins with prompt medical treatment, if required, and early and accurate reporting of the injury. Learn how to report a worker’s injury.
To help manage the claim, internally investigate and document the cause(s) and factors contributing to the work injury. Determine procedures or modifications to prevent similar incidents in the future. Keep accurate records of all incidents.
By receiving your report of injury quickly, the WCB can determine whether the injury is work-related and promptly provide any benefits the worker may be entitled to. This minimizes the financial and physical impact of the injury on the worker and their family.
Obtaining your worker’s medical restrictions and beginning a prompt return-to-work plan may also lessen the duration of the injury, which will help reduce the impact on your experience rating and help restore the worker’s abilities.
Effective claims management must involve not only the WCB, but also employers, workers and health-care providers in a collaborative relationship. The WCB uses a proactive customer care facilitator system to maximize early treatment, safe return to work and provide excellent customer service.
Claims are immediately sorted to focus attention on injuries with complications or those of a more serious, longer-term nature.
Established recovery schedules, timelines and standards result in prompt treatment and return to work.
Medical treatment and return-to-work activities may run at the same time.
Treatment, physical and psychological rehabilitation and return-to-work plans are continuously monitored to ensure the worker’s recovery and a safe return to the workplace.
A: Employers, workers, care providers and the WCB must work together to prevent work injuries and, when injuries happen, get workers back to work as soon as it is medically safe. Working together, the partners will address workers’ medical needs, arrange for meaningful work during recovery and provide benefits.
As an employer, your responsibilities are to:
A: The WCB’s goal is to return workers to their normal activities as soon as medically safe. This requires a working partnership of the worker, employer, health care provider and the WCB. As an employer, there are things you can do:
Stay in touch with your worker, their care provider, union representative and the WCB to set up and follow a return-to-work plan to get the worker back on the job as soon as it’s medically safe.
Learn more about return-to-work programs and return-to-work information for employers.
Learn how the return-to-work process works and the responsibilities of workers, employers, care providers and the WCB during a worker’s recovery.
Learn moreLearn what information you need to know if you have a return-to-work program in place and what you need to know about medical restrictions.
Learn moreLearn what a return-to-work program should contain, what transitional return to work for workers who are temporarily disabled includes and what a return-to-work plan for an individual worker may include.
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