WCB has released its 2015 Annual Report –\t<\/p>\n
. 2015 at a glance:
\nSlightly fewer Nova Scotians were injured at work compared to 2014. Registered claims decreased to 23,933 from 24,505.
\n\u25feThere were eight acute workplace fatalities in 2015, compared to five in 2014, 17 in 2013, and 10 in 2012.
\n\u25feThere were 19 chronic fatalities in 2015, due to disease and health problems, compared to 14 in 2014, 17 in 2013, and 22 in 2012.
\n\u25feThe WCB reported a comprehensive total income of $72.6 million, moving to 80.6 per cent funded. It was 27 per cent funded in the early 1990s.
\n\u25feThere were 6,014 time-loss claims, up from 5,953 in 2014. Time-loss injuries are still 34 per cent lower than a decade ago.
\n\u25feThe injury rate increased slightly to 1.84 injuries per 100 covered workers, still among the lowest levels since we began tracking this measure.
\n\u25feSprains and strains remain the most common type of time-loss injury at 64 per cent.
\n\u25feBack injuries accounted for 30 per cent of all time-loss claims.
\n\u25feLifting and moving people in the healthcare industry is the single greatest source of time-loss injuries in Nova Scotia.
\n\u25feThe injury rate in manufacturing, the third largest sector in Nova Scotia, fell notably to 1.80 per 100 covered workers from 2.05 in 2014.
\n\u25feAverage claim duration in Nova Scotia increased to 108 days.
\n\u25feThe fishing industry has seen a decrease in injury rate of 33 per cent since 2011.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WCB has released its 2015 Annual Report – Leading Through Change . 2015 at a glance: Slightly fewer Nova Scotians were injured at work compared to 2014. Registered claims decreased to 23,933 from 24,505. \u25feThere were eight acute workplace fatalities in 2015, compared to five in 2014, 17 in 2013, and 10 in 2012. \u25feThere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,97,37,60],"tags":[62,138,39],"class_list":["post-26204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-resources","category-ohs","category-safety","category-small-business","tag-occupational-health-and-safety","tag-safety","tag-wcb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26225,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204\/revisions\/26225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}