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Accepted Claims or #STD/LTD/FTL Claims refers to the number of short-term disability, long-term disability, and fatal claims accepted in the year (for all years of injury). It does not include health-care-only claims.
Assessable Payroll is the payroll used by WorkSafeBC in calculating the employer's assessment. It is the sum of the year's payroll for each employee, limited by the year's Maximum Assessable Wage.
Claim Cost Paid is the total health care payments, short term disability (STD) payments, vocational rehabilitation payments, long term disability (LTD) reserves and one-time cash awards, and survivor benefit reserves and one-time cash awards charged in the year regardless of year of injury.
Classification (CU) is the lowest level of industry grouping used by WorkSafeBC.
Employer Count refers to the number of employers registered with WorkSafeBC in the Classification Units indicated and reporting payroll in the year specified.
Ergonomic (MSI) or Musculoskeletal Injury refers to a combination of overexertion and repetitive motion accident types.
Fatalities are the number of fatality claims accepted for survivor or fatal benefits.
Injury Rate is the number of Non-Health Care Only (Non-HCO) claims per 100 person years of employment (estimated FTEs).
Non-HCO Claims refers to the total number of Non Health Care Only claims. A Non-HCO claim must have a Short Term Disability (STD), Long Term Disability (LTD) or Fatal benefit in the year or in the following 3 months.
Person Years of employment for an employer are estimated by dividing the employer's payroll by the average wage rate for the industry the employer operates in. The assumption being made is that wage rates are the same for all employers in the industry. For example, a person year is equivalent to one person working fulltime at an occupation for a one-year period.
Serious Injuries include all Non-HCO claims first-paid in the month of injury or in the following three months which also meet at least one of the following criteria: 28 or more days of wage loss in the period; health care costs equivalent to 28 or more days of wage loss; a fatality; one of 275 ICD9 serious codes.
Small Business refers to employers having fewer than 20 person years of employment (but more than zero).
STD (Short-term Disability) Duration represents an estimate of the average of STD Days paid for each STD claim. It is calculated according to the methodology developed by the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC), and is based on all STD days paid in the year including days lost on injuries that occurred prior to the start of the 12-month period. Days arising from rehabilitation payments are excluded from the calculation.
Work Days Paid is the total short term disability (STD) days and rehabilitation income continuity (code R) days paid in the year regardless of the year of injury.
Data Source: WorkSafeBC Enterprise Data Warehouse as of October 31, 2008.
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