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Statistics for Young Workers
Statistics: WorkSafeBC Terms of Reference
Accepted Fatalities are fatality claims accepted by WorkSafeBC for survivor or fatal benefits.
Active Employers refer to the current number of active employers registered with WorkSafeBC. Employer identification numbers are aggregated by CU, Subsector, and Sector.
Assessable Payroll refers to the payroll upon which the Assessment is calculated.
Average Costs Per Claim are claim costs divided by accepted claims.
Claim Costs for CU is all cost on claims except health care and rehabilitation cost. It is cost charged in the year for all years of injury. This measure is consistent with the counting methodology used in Accepted Claims.
Claims Costs Paid for firms refer to total health care, STD, rehab, LTD reserves, survivor reserves and cash awards paid in the year regardless of year of injury. This measure is consistent with the counting methodology used in Non-HCO Claims.
Classification Unit (CU) is the industry classification unit code. Its description can be found in the WorkSafeBC Classification and Rate List.
Days Lost for CU are days paid in the year for all years of injury. This measure is consistent with the counting methodology used in Accepted Claims.
Days Paid Quantity (also referred to as 'Total Work Days Lost') refers to the total STD days paid in the year regardless of year of injury. Code R Rehab days, which are included in the days lost statistic published in the statistical supplement to the annual report, are NOT included in this report. This measure is consistent with the counting methodology used in Non-HCO Claims.
First-Paid Short-term Disability (STD) Claim refers to claims with first STD payment made in the same year.
Injury Rate represents the number of Non-HCO Claims per 100 Person Years.
Injury Year Duration is also referred to as 'Current Year Duration'. It includes only days lost (i.e. days paid per claim) in the year of injury. For example, the 1998 injury year duration would only include days lost in 1998 respective to its accepted injury claims in 1998. Injury year duration is the most widely-used method of calculating duration for statistical purposes. Calculations of this method can be provided for classification units, subsectors, sectors, occupational type, age, and other work-related variables. A duration statistic calculated for a group of 25 or fewer claims should be regarded as having high statistical variability. It is important to note that 'Injury Year Duration' is not the same as 'Total Claim Duration' which is reported in the WorkSafeBC Statistical Annual Report.
MSI or Musculoskeletal Injury refers to a combination of overexertion and repetitive motion accident types.
Non-HCO Claims for firms refer 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 of injury 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 in which the employer operates. The assumption is that wage rates are the same for all employers in the industry. Person years were adjusted retroactively in 2001, based on a newly established industrial classification system called NAICS-- the North American Industrial Classification System. For example, a person year is equivalent to one person working full-time at an occupation for a one-year period.
Small business refers to employer operations with fewer than 20 employees.
Serious Injury: A Serious Injury is defined as a claim with an STD, LTD, or Fatal benefit payment in the period consisting of the month of injury or the following 3 months that has at least one of the following:
- 28 or more STD days lost in the period;
- Healthcare costs in the period equivalent to 28 days of STD costs;
- a Fatal benefit paid in the period;
- one of the 275 ICD9 Medical Diagnosis codes assigned which have been designated as Serious Injuries. The Serious Injury Rate is lagged 3 months to allow for the qualifying payments to accrue. Some Serious Injuries under the ICD9 category are estimated due to uncoded claims.
STD/LTD/FTL Claims represents claims with a first short-term disability, long-term disability or fatal benefit (reserve set or cash award).
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