The Workmen's Compensation Act, through the actions of the
Board, has had a significant impact on the lives of workers in British
Columbia and their dependents.
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This chart illustrates the number of workers in B.C. at the time,
how many were covered by workmen's compensation and, in each year,
how many had to rely on WCB coverage to some extent.
While the WCB can ease much of the financial burden of injuries,
the lost productivity is gone forever. The only way to
deal with this huge cost is through injury prevention,
a task the WCB has taken on from the very beginning.
This figure includes all days lost in the year, due to claims
from all years. Time charges for fatalities and permanent disability
are not included. Injuries involving time loss of three days or
less were not counted until 1972.
Beginning in 1971 the days counted changed to work days.
People receive
pensions as the result of two types of accidents: those resulting
in permanent impairment, where the worker receives a pension,
and those resulting in the death of a worker, where the surviving
dependents receive pensions.
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