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WorkSafeBC

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Our vision, mission, and guiding principles

Our vision

Workers and workplaces safe and secure from injury, illness, and disease.

Our mission

To add value for workers and employers by:

  • Assisting them to create a culture of health and safety in the workplace
  • Delivering quality decisions and advice
  • Providing compassionate and supportive service
  • Ensuring solid financial stewardship now and in the future

Our guiding principles and premises

We, the officers and agents of WorkSafeBC, believe that:

  • We must focus on our core mandates — prevention, rehabilitation, and compensation.
  • Our principal focus is WorkSafe™ — the promotion of healthy and safe workplaces through enforcement, consultation, and education.
  • WorkSafeBC is most effective when it is dedicated to the WorkSafe initiative, facilitating the co-operation of workers and employers in preventing workplace injuries, diseases, and fatalities.
  • Societal and cultural change is essential for creating a culture of health and safety in the workplace and we play a principal role in effecting this change.
  • When a worker is injured, our priority must be the rehabilitation and return to work of that worker.
  • We must be driven by a service orientation that is attained through effective delivery of WorkSafeBC programs and services. In doing so, we are dedicated to empowering our front-line staff through support and ongoing development and training opportunities.
  • We must preserve the financial integrity and stability of the system.
  • We must add value to the workers' compensation system and be an asset to our stakeholders and to the Province of B.C.
  • We must remain sensitive to the strategic priorities and comply with the legislated directions of the B.C. Government.

To fulfill its mandate, WorkSafeBC is enabled by:

  • Transparent and accountable policies and regulations that define the type and amounts of compensation paid to injured workers, prescribe occupational health and safety standards, and determine how the system is funded and administered
  • A full range of responsive programs that meet the individual prevention, compensation, assessments, and rehabilitation needs of stakeholders
  • Professional, compassionate, and highly trained people working together to deliver quality service
  • Effective and efficient processes that ensure quality and service excellence and eliminate bureaucracy
  • Innovative and responsive products designed to meet the individual needs of stakeholders throughout the system