Better support for injured workers focus for WorkSafe review

Terrace will be the only Northwest stop next month, as part of a six-week tour of fourteen communities across the province that will see an Independent review of the province's worker compensation system to better support injured workers.

Led by retired labour lawyer Jnet Patterson, the independent review will provide advice to the provincial government on how to shift the current workers' compensation system to become more worker centred.

Among some of the areas that the review will examine include:

The system’s policies and practices that support injured workers’ return to work

WorkSafeBC’s current policies and practices through a gender- and diversity-based analysis (commonly referred to as GBA +)

Modernization of WorkSafeBC’s culture to reflect a worker-centric service delivery model; the case management of injured workers 

Any potential amendments to the Workers Compensation Act arising from this focused review.


British Columbians are invited to share their views on what an improved workers’ compensation system should look like. The independent reviewer would like to hear from people from all over B.C., including injured workers and their families, employers, medical practitioners, Indigenous people and First Nations, unions, employer associations, representatives of workers and employers, the legal community and members of the public.

The Terrace sessions take place on Thursday July 18 from 2 to 8 PM and again of Friday from 10 AM to 1 PM, with the city's Best Western Terrace Inn the host venue for the two days.

Those who plan to make a presentation will be offered twenty minute time slots, available on a first come - first served basis.

Half of the time in Terrace will be put aside for injured workers and the remainder for other participants

Learn more about that presentation process and how to reserve a time here.

You can also participate through a comments process as well as a questionnaire which is available here, to make your views known.

A full overview of the scope of the Review can be explored here.

More notes on labour issues in the Northwest can be found here.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review