WorkSafe BC or Worker’s Compensation Board

https://www.worksafebc.com/en/about-us/who-we-are/mission-vision-values

WorkSafe BC is committed to creating a province free from workplace injury or illness, and to providing service driven by their core values of integrity, accountability, and innovation. By partnering with workers and employers, it helps British Columbians come home from work safe every day.

https://www.worksafebc.com/en/about-us/shared-data

In 2016, people in B.C. missed 2.6 million days of work and 144 people lost their lives due to work-related incidents and disease.

National Day of Mourning

Marked annually in Canada on April 28, the National Day of Mourning is dedicated to remembering those who have lost their lives, or suffered injury or illness on the job or due to a work-related tragedy.

https://www.ccohs.ca/events/mourning/

The most recent statistics from the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC) tell us that in 2019, 925 workplace fatalities were recorded in Canada. 882 were male workers, and 43 were female workers. Among these deaths were 29 young workers aged 15-24.

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