Bill 9 of 2015 made a number of legislative changes to Part 3 of the Workers Compensation Act (Act). Bill 35 of 2015 provided further amendments, building on the changes made by Bill 9.

The goal of all of the changes was to improve workplace health and safety and strengthen the tools that WorkSafeBC uses to enforce the Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, by implementing recommendations from Gordon Macatee’s WorkSafeBC Review and Action Plan, released in July 2014.

This primer is a high-level summary of changes made to employers’ obligations regarding incident investigations, which came into effect on May 14, 2015, and January 1, 2016.