News Releases

Toronto, May 11, 2017 – The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) has developed a new tool, the Health and Safety Index, to measure the overall health and safety of Ontario’s workplaces.

Toronto, April 28, 2017 – The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) commemorated the National Day of Mourning at a ceremony this morning. Threads of Life families who have lost a loved one, workers, employers and WSIB staff gathered to honour workers who have died, been injured or suffered illness in the workplace.

Toronto, March 14, 2017 – Two researchers have received grants from Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to conduct studies on how to improve return-to-work and recovery outcomes for injured and ill workers.

Toronto, January 9, 2017 – The 2017 application process for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s (WSIB) Grants Program opened today. Through the Program, the WSIB invites proposals for highly practical expert research studies and training initiatives to achieve better return to work and recovery outcomes for injured and ill workers, and to deliver innovations in service within Ontario’s workplace compensation system.

Find out how your hearing compares to the average person at toneitdown.ca
Toronto, January 18, 2017 – Between 2006 and 2015, almost 30,000 people - close to the population of Orillia, ON – had an allowed Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) claim. This accounted for about 23% of all allowed occupational disease claims and the condition was completely preventable.

Toronto, January 25, 2017 – The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) has posted its drug formularies, with interactive search capability, on its website.

The WSIB and the Ministry of Labour raise awareness of workplace health and safety with the It’s Your Job Student Video Contest
TORONTO, November 2, 2016 – For the third consecutive year, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) is partnering with the Ontario Ministry of Labour (MoL) to co-sponsor the “It’s Your Job” student video contest in Ontario. 

Secure benefits and stable premiums: today’s WSIB
Toronto, September 14, 2016 – Safer workplaces, better outcomes for injured workers and operational and financial improvements have left Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) in its strongest position in decades, WSIB Chair Elizabeth Witmer reported today.