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WCB receives prestigious 2003 Omond Solandt Award
The Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) was honoured to receive the 2003 Omond Solandt Award from the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) at an award ceremony on June 3rd. The award recognizes the WCB's ongoing commitment to delivering service to the workers and employers of British Columbia by applying operations research methods to continually enhance its operations.
Examples of the WCB's innovative application of operations research methods include using:
- Decision analysis and logistic regression to prospectively predict
high risk cases
- Queuing models and simulation to enhance claims management processes
- Statistical analysis to explore the impact of alternative claims management
strategies
- Sophisticated forecasting methods to predict future claims volumes
at the industry, injury and office level
- Data envelopment analysis to benchmark regional office performance and identify best practices
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Sidney Fattedad, the WCB's Chief Financial Officer and Vice-President of Finance and Information Services, accepts the 2003 Omond Solandt Award from Martin Puterman, Chair and Advisory Board Professor of Operations for the Canadian Operational Research Society
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The Omond Solandt Award is awarded annually to a private or governmental organization that has made an outstanding contribution to operations research in Canada. Martin Puterman, Chair and Advisory Board Professor of Operations for CORS, said in a letter to the WCB President, that the award also recognizes the organization's contribution to operations research education through its long standing partnership with the Centre for Operations Excellence at the University of British Columbia.
The WCB's Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance and Information Services, Sidney Fattedad, was proud to accept this signal honour on the Board's behalf.
"The WCB is committed to enhancing service and improving operational
efficiency," said Fattedad. "To accomplish these goals in a
modern and complex business environment, we need to understand and utilize
sophisticated analysis and research methods."
Serving nearly two million workers and approximately 172,000 employers,
the Workers' Compensation Board is a provincial statutory agency governed
by a Board of Directors. The WCB is committed to a safe and healthy workplace
and to providing return-to-work rehabilitation and legislated compensation
benefits to workers injured or suffering occupational disease as a result
of their employment.
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For more information please contact: |
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| Scott McCloy Director, Communications Manager Tel: 604 276-5157 E-mail: smccloy@wcb.bc.ca |
Donna Freeman Corporate Public Affairs Tel: 604 276-3141 E-mail: dfreema1@wcb.bc.ca |