Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2024)
The total injury rate in Saskatchewan for 2023 was 3.95 per 100 workers – an almost nine per cent drop from 2022 and the lowest rate in the province’s history, according to the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board. (WCB)
From 2009 to 2023, the WCB’s total injury rate has decreased by 57.6 per cent, it said.
“Through the WorkSafe Saskatchewan partnership with the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, as a province, we are on the right track as we see our Total and Time Loss injury rates continue to come down,” said Gord Dobrowolsky, chair of the WCB.
For the fourth year in a row, 90 per cent of Saskatchewan workplaces had zero fatalities and zero injuries last year. In addition to the Total injury rate decrease in 2023, the Time Loss injury rate also dropped to 1.78 per 100 workers, it said.
This represents a decrease of 12.7 per cent from the 2022 rate of 2.04 per 100 workers. “An almost 13 per cent decrease in the Time Loss injury rate is certainly significant for 2023,” WCB CEO Phillip Germain. “While we are moving in a positive direction, we all need to continue prioritizing workplace safety to drive our rates even lower.”
Saskatchewan’s Time Loss injury rate is fourth among Canadian provinces, it said.
My opinion
I, usually, attempt to discuss numbers like this as a skewed set of facts as many provinces change the reporting requirements. The number of incidents seem to go down BUT deaths and critical injuries go up. Here we find Saskatchewan beating this trend!
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