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Title: The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) is Manitoba


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What is the Workers Compensation Board?
  • The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) is
    Manitobas no-fault insurance system for
    employers and workers.
  • The WCB can pay money (compensation) to injured
    workers who cannot work because they are hurt on
    the job.
  • If you do get injured or sick because of your
    work, it is important for you to know about the
    WCB.

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Injury risks for newcomers to Manitoba
  • Newcomers to Manitoba do not always find the work
    they hoped to find right away.
  • Newcomers may be more likely to work in manual
    jobs, which have higher rates of injury.

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What types of injuries and illnesses can happen
at different workplaces?
  • In a factory?
  • In a restaurant?
  • Doing cleaning or maintenance work?
  • In healthcare or child care?
  • In construction?
  • In other types of jobs?

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What should you do if you get sick or injured as
a result of your work?
  • If you require medical attention, go see a
    healthcare provider (hospital, doctor, walk-in
    clinic, etc.) as soon as possible.
  • Be sure to tell your healthcare provider that
    your pain or injury is related to your work.
  • The healthcare professional will fill out a WCB
    Healthcare Report and send it to the WCB.

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What should you do if you get sick or injured as
a result of your work?
  • Tell your employer or supervisor about your
    injury, even if it seems small. A small injury
    could get worse.
  • Your boss cannot fire you just because you are
    hurt or injured.

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What should you do if you get sick or injured as
a result of your work?
  • If you have a safety and health representative at
    work, tell this person about your injury.
  • You can also tell your union representative if
    you feel comfortable doing so.
  • If you get hurt in an incident at work, get the
    names and contact information of anyone who saw
    the incident.

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What should you do if you get sick or injured as
a result of your work?
  • If you miss time from work because of your
    injury, report your injury to the WCB.
  • Call 204-954-4100 or toll free at 1-800-362-3340.
  • You can ask to have an interpreter join the call
    if you are more comfortable speaking in a
    language other than English.
  • You can also fill out a Worker Incident Report
    form.
  • Available on the WCB website www.wcb.mb.ca
  • Send to the WCB

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Scenario Why it is important to report injuries
  • Naseem gets a metal splinter in his hand at work.
    He tells his boss, and they fill out a WCB form
    to report the injury. Naseem thinks this isnt
    necessary and laughs about it. He doesnt tell
    his co-workers because he is embarrassed. He
    didnt need to report this type of injury in his
    home country.
  • The splinter in Naseems hand gets infected, and
    he has to take a week off work. If he hadnt
    reported the injury to his boss and to the WCB,
    he may not have been paid for staying home from
    work to get better.

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What should you do if you get sick or injured as
a result of your work?
  • Write down the details of your injury, illness or
    incident at work.
  • Your turn What sorts of information should you
    provide?

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How does the WCB find out about your injury?
  • If you get medical care, your healthcare provider
    may fill out a WCB Healthcare Report and send it
    to the WCB.
  • Your employer has to let the WCB know about your
    injury within five days of learning about the
    injury.
  • Your employer may fill out a WCB Employers
    Incident Report form or report the injury over
    the phone or online.

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What the Worker Incident Report form looks like
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What happens next?
  • Once the WCB receives a Worker Incident Report
    form, a WCB Employers Incident Report form) or
    WCB Healthcare Report, it will open a file on the
    claim and contact you for any further
    information.
  • The next four slides provide more detailed
    information about making a claim to the WCB.

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Steps involved in making a WCB claim
  • When to make a claim
  • As a worker, you can make a claim for a
    work-related injury or illness if you
  • receive healthcare for your injury or illness or
  • miss time from work.
  • Tell your employer about the injury or illness as
    soon as possible. Your employer should report the
    injury or illness to the WCB.
  • Call the WCB at 204-954-4100, or toll-free at
    1-800-362-3340 to report your injury.
  • Monday Friday, 800 a.m. 700 p.m.

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Steps involved in making a WCB claim
  • You will need to provide the following
    information
  • your name
  • your address and phone number
  • the date of your injury
  • your social insurance number
  • your workplaces name, address and phone number
  • the symptoms or illness for which you are making
    a claim, as well as information about the type of
    work you do or about the incident
  • the healthcare provider you saw for your injury
    and the date when you saw him/her

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Steps involved in making a WCB claim
  • When a claim is registered, you will be given an
    eight-digit claim number.
  • Keep your claim number so that you can follow up
    with your adjudicator or case manager about your
    claim.
  • Once your form is received, an adjudicator will
    call you to get any information still needed to
    make a decision on your claim.

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Steps involved in making a WCB claim
  • There is a deadline for employers to make a claim
    to the WCB. A claim must be filed within five
    working days of an injury or of when they learned
    of the injury.
  • You must contact (report to) the WCB if there are
    any changes to the status of your claim. These
    changes could include
  • returning to work
  • beginning to receive other income or benefits
  • significant changes in your medical condition.

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Acknowledgements
  • This document is part of the Prevention is the
    Best Medicine toolkit created by a research team
    at the Institute for Work Health (Kosny A,
    Lifshen M, Smith P, Saunders R and Rhooms R.
    2011). It was modified by Workplace Safety and
    Health and the Workers Compensation Board of
    Manitoba.
  • The Institute for Work Health is an
    independent, not-for-profit research
    organization. Its mission is to conduct and share
    research that protects and improves the health of
    working people and is valued by policy-makers,
    workers and workplaces, clinicians, and health
    and safety professionals.
  • For more information, call 957-SAFE in Winnipeg
    or 1-866-929-SAFE outside Winnipeg.
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