A guide to creating a Return-to-Work policy that outlines employer and worker responsibilities, promotes safe recovery, and supports timely workplace reintegration.
As an employer, you play a key role in helping workers who are injured or ill get back to work early and safely. An effective plan supports healing, reduces time lost, and can lower your premium costs.
Talking to a worker about psychological injuries can be difficult. As an employer or supervisor, your support matters. Open communication helps at every stage:
Creating a psychologically safe workplace isn’t complicated. Small, consistent actions can protect your workers’ mental health, help them perform at their best, and prevent injury.
Ergonomics means fitting the job to the worker—designing tasks, tools, and workspaces so people can work safely and comfortably. It helps prevent musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs).
People can experience both physical and psychological injuries at work. A psychological injury can happen after a sudden traumatic event or build over time from serious stressors at work.
WCB policies are rules that guide how the WCB makes decisions. WCB Policy works together with the Workers’ Compensation Act.