Injury Prevention
WCB continued to promote a safer fishing sector in 2023 - an industry that has seen significant improvement. Wharfside safety demonstrations, such as this one in Yarmouth, took place around the province.
OUR PROGRESS
Alongside our partners, we continued to promote safe and healthy workplaces through focused social marketing campaigns.
We developed a comprehensive operational plan for the addition of gradual onset psychological injury as a compensable injury under the Workers’ Compensation Act.
We partnered with ISANS to support injury prevention awareness for newcomers in the hospitality sector.
We continued to work in partnership with AWARE-NS and government to deliver training to improve leaders’ capacity to prevent injuries in the long-term care, home care and disability support sectors.
We supported the launch of the Better Safety, Better Care campaign to highlight the connection between the safety of workers in the home care and long-term care sectors and their ability to provide safe and healthy care to clients and residents.
We continued to support first responders’ mental health, adding online tools and resources, and through strategic partnerships at first responder education events.
OUR PLANS
We will deliver on our commitment to protect more working Nova Scotians, guided by our 2024–2030 Strategic Plan and our target of fewer injuries in 2024.
We will continue to work with our partners to increase awareness about the importance of safety at work, so that every Nova Scotian goes home safe.
We will continue to build awareness about the importance of psychologically safe workplaces through strategic partnerships, webinars, employer outreach and digital campaigns.
We will help employers make their workplaces psychologically safe, with new online tools, a dedicated microsite based on the National Standard for Psychologically Safe Workplaces, and new coaching plans to enable our teams to provide direct support.
We will continue to work with our partners to deliver training and resources that help reduce both physical and psychological injuries in the long-term care, home care and disability support sectors.
We will work closely with employers to support their efforts to prevent all types of workplace injury.