Changes regarding Employer Incident Investigations

At its meeting on October 22, 2015, the Board of Directors approved the following as a result of changes to the Workers Compensation Act regarding employers’ reports of accidents or incident investigations:

  • The deletion of section 3.4 from the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 296/97
  • The consequential amendment to section 24.34 of the OHS Regulation

The amendments to the OHS Regulation will come into effect on February 1, 2016.

You can review the resolution here.

Sincerely,

Lori Guiton
Director, Policy, Regulation and Research Division, WorkSafeBC