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Proposed amendments to the policies in Chapter 3 of the Rehabilitation Services & Claims Manual, Volume II — Compensation for Personal Injury
The policies in Chapter 3 of the Rehabilitation Services and Claims Manual, Volume II provide direction primarily on the determination of whether a worker's personal injury or death arises out of and in the course of the employment.
The Policy and Research Division has developed a discussion paper and draft revisions to the policies in Chapter 3 for the consideration of stakeholders. Proposed deletions of policy wording are identified with a strikethrough and additions are identified in bold.
Stakeholders are invited to review the discussion paper and draft policies, and to provide feedback by September 7, 2007.
Discussion paper (PDF 71kb)| Appendix A — Proposed policies (comprehensive)
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Appendix A — Proposed policies (individual) (best for reading and reviewing) |
| Appendix B — Table of Concordance (PDF 74kb) |
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| Appendix C — Consequential Amendments (PDF 26kb) | Appendix C - This table sets out the basic cross-referencing amendments (and wording changes to current policy item #26.55) that would result from the proposed changes to Chapter 3. |
There are a number of ways for stakeholders to provide feedback on the options and draft policy amendments:
(a) Comment links:
To comment on an individual policy, there are Comment links at the top of each proposed policy found under Appendix A — Proposed policies (individual), through which you are able to provide immediate feedback by completing an online submission form. For general comments on the Chapter, please select the Comment button below.
Please note: Once you click the “submit” button at the bottom of the form you cannot access it again to make additional comments. Therefore, if you wish to make detailed comments in the feedback section, you may want to draft your comments using a word processing format and then cut and paste them into the submission form.
Alternatively, submissions can be submitted as follows:
| (b) | E-mail: | policy@worksafebc.com |
| (c) | Mail: | Christina Stephen |
| (d) | Fax: | 604 279-7599; or toll-free in B.C. 1 877-279-7599 |
The consultation period will end on September 7, 2007. The Board of Directors will consider stakeholder feedback before making a decision on policy amendments.
Please note that all comments become part of the Policy and Research Division's database and may be published, including the identity of organizations and those participating on behalf of organizations. The identity of those who have participated on their own behalf will be kept confidential according to the provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.