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17-03-04
Policy
The WSIB may pay for a special surgical operation or health care treatment for a worker if, by doing so, substantial payments under the insurance plan can be avoided…
17-01-04
Policy
The WSIB expects Ontario workers to receive health care in Ontario. However, there may be situations when workers are entitled to emergency or elective health care…
17-02-02
Policy
Health care practitioners, who provide health care to a worker or are consulted with respect to a worker's health care, must provide the WSIB with information…
17-07-04
Policy
The WSIB may authorize the provision, replacement, or repair of hearing devices, which includes, hearing aids and related accessories, and hearing assistive…
15-03-10
Policy
The WSIB accepts claims as work related when:
a causal relationship is shown between the cardiac condition and an accident at work, or
the cardiac condition is…
15-03-12
Policy
If a full-time, part-time or volunteer firefighter or fire investigator sustains an injury to the heart in the circumstances prescribed in the applicable Regulation,…
15-04-08
Policy
If a specific work-related muscular effort or incident causes or aggravates a hernia, workers are entitled to benefits.
17-06-06
Policy
A worker may be entitled to a home care program if the worker's treating health professional specifies at least one professional health service is needed.
17-06-08
Policy
The WSIB will authorize home modifications to facilitate independent living when a worker sustains a permanent total disability/severe impairment.
15-04-10
Policy
Entitlement is in order for any reaction from compulsory immunization procedures.
After a work accident, entitlement is in order for a single dose of tetanus human…
15-04-06
Policy
Permanent disability awards for impotence and sterility are granted in the following circumstances.
Impotence
Trauma to the genital organs with physical scarring…
15-06-06
Policy
Injured workers who are incarcerated or otherwise sentenced for offences retain their rights to benefits under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997…
17-06-02
Policy
Severely impaired workers are entitled to an annual independent living allowance to
help them function as independently as possible where they work, where they…
17-06-03
Policy
Severely impaired workers may be entitled to independent living devices that cost more than $250 per item, and are not intended to accomplish any of the objectives of…
12-04-04
Policy
Individuals who are placed by training agencies with employers (placement hosts) to obtain work skills and experience, but who are not paid by the employer, are …
18-06-06
Policy
A training participant is entitled to temporary disability benefits
as long as the disability continues, and
the injury prevents the training participant from…
18-04-06
Policy
The WSIB determines the future economic loss (FEL) benefit for workers who are not earning at the time of the initial determination based on the suitable occupation (…
18-04-05
Policy
The WSIB determines the future economic loss (FEL) benefit for workers who are earning at the time of the initial determination based on their post-injury net average…
14-02-18
Policy
Construction employers must calculate the amount of premiums owed, report and remit the amount to the WSIB. The calculation of premiums is based on the…
14-02-09
Policy
This policy only applies to drivers in the transportation industry. Unless otherwise indicated, “workers” therefore only means workers who drive.
When a principal in…
14-02-12
Policy
Under the Interjurisdictional Agreement on Workers’ Compensation (IJA), employers pro-rate their insurable earnings so that each Canadian Board only receives premiums…
14-02-10
Policy
The WSIB applies fixed percentages of the contract value to determine insurable earnings, where a principal in logging
hires contractors considered workers by the…
14-02-11
Law
s.2(1)
“Worker” means a person who has entered into or is employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship and includes the following
an auxiliary member of a…
18-01-08
Policy
The WSIB pays interest on delayed benefit payments to workers or, in case of death, to their survivors. Delayed benefit payments are payments issued after the…
15-01-11
Policy
All workers' compensation boards in Canada have signed an Interjurisdictional Agreement on Workers' Compensation (IJA) for the benefit of workers and employers whose…