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By Gord Wiebe May 26, 2021 | 10:06 AM At its Annual General Meeting, the Workers’ Compensation Board reported that it remained fully funded at 112.4 per cent last year. Workplace Total injury rate decreased to 4.46 per 100 workers and the Time Loss injury rate decreased to 1.78 per 100 workers in 2020. In 2020, 90 per cent of Saskatchewan workplaces reported zero injuries or fatalities, compared to 88 per cent each of the previous four years. Last year, 34 workplace fatalities were reported, down from 36 in 2019. Claim costs were $319.6 million in 2020, up from $281.0 million in ...

Workers in Saskatchewan were safer, despite the number of deaths remaining nearly the same. According to the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WBC), the workplace injury rate in the . . .

The 2020 time loss injury rate is the lowest rate in more than a decade. “Although the reductions in the Total injury and Time Loss injury rates are a step in the right direction,” says Minister Responsible for WCB, Don Morgan, “Every workplace injury in Saskatchewan is one too many. We cannot become complacent in our efforts to make all workplaces safe.” The total amount of claims have also decreased with just shy of 17,950 claims in 2020, compared to over 21,400 in 2019.  There were fewer workers covered in 2020; however, as 402,000 were covered, a decrease from the over 433,00...

In 2020, the Time Loss injury rate decreased to 1.78 per 100 workers, a decrease of 0.08 per 100 workers, or by 4.3 per cent, from the 2019 rate of 1.86 per 100 workers. The 2020 Time Loss injury rate is the lowest rate in more than a decade. “Although the reductions in the Total injury and Time Loss injury rates are a step in the right direction,” said Minister Responsible for WCB, Don Morgan, “every workplace injury in Saskatchewan is one too many. We cannot become complacent in our efforts to make all workplaces safe.” Claims have also decreased: • Total claims accepted decre...