Experience rating

From Experience Rating to Rating Experience

October 1, 2015

ONIWG Submission to the WSIB Rate Framework Consultation expresses disappointment, given the impact of experience rating on injured workers, that the proposal is to move from a one type of experience rating to another – in a way that entrenches employer incentives…

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Backgrounder – Experience rating

February 28, 2015

Experience rating (ER), a financial incentive program for employers used by the WSIB to promote occupational health and safety, is not achieving its goals but instead hurts injured workers in many ways. Employer resources are diverted from workplace safety improvement towards claims…

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Health and safety rebate and surcharge incentive system harms injured workers, international experts agree

November 30, 2012

At international symposium held at the University of Toronto, ONWIG members heard experts affirm that abuse of injured workers is common within experience rating systems – and that these systems have little or no effect on improving workplace health and safety.…

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Experience rating : an addiction looking for a rationale?

April 8, 2011

Submission to the WSIB/WCB Funding Review details why the Working Group finds that experience rating prompts negative claims management behaviour by employers, produces harmful results for injured workers. and fundamentally works against improving occupational health and safety.…

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Experience? Rating?

August 1, 2008

Origins of Ontario’s experience rating system, a financial incentive for employers to improve occupational health & safety but that in practice can lead to claims suppression.…

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Squeezing the worker: how experience rating works

September 1, 1996

Article by Marion Endicott in IAVGO Reporting Service 11(1) 1996: 6-9. How experience rating allows employers, regardless of the conditions of work, control or manage claims costs when accidents happen.…

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