Health and Safety

Yes, there are distinct differences in each province for the Cor Program. If you are using the Construction Associations audits they are still very similar. Recently though provinces strayed away from National Audit Strategy and went their own way. With other Certifying partners though the difference between provinces is like night and day.

The easiest way is to check who your main competition is certified with. You could always check with the WCB and they would be happy to tell you.

Every Company has its own costs but on average it would probably cost between $10,000 and $20,000 to run per year. The Safety Coordinator would be a large part of that salary. An Average Safety Person Would be between $30 per hour to $35.00 per hour. We can help you if you are a small business as we can do a lot of stuff virtually and cut down on the costs. We can have a safety meeting and it can be done vurtually

This is a tricky question for the law does not state that a company has to have a cor or Se-cor but it does state that you need to have a system in place to identify and control hazards on the worksite. It also states new workers must be orientated and taught the hazards specific to their duties. It also states you need to investigate incidents and accidents and find the root cause. It also states you need to have health and safety meetings at least quarterly. They never chase you for any of this stuff until somebody gets hurt at work. The moment the hospital says the incident happened at work. This is when you wish you had a se-cor or cor program

If you operate in the USA or Asia, what you probably need is an international Standards Operations certification. They offer a 45001 certification which is comperable to the cor program in Canada. 
This system is recognized worldwide so it will work in your other operations.

We generally charge by the hour, but on long-term projects, we do have daily rates,, and in some cases we will give you a lump sum price for the job

Our Cor Process is usually a lump sum price with payments divided up into 4 payments. It depends on how many workers you have working for your company and the location of your company. It starts at $$5000.00 for a small to average size company. Often we recommend going digital first as it is cheaper to monitor your progress electronically than in real-time.

This process is Straight Forward and costs $2500.00, which includes the first audit for the program. We can usually get you certified in 3 months. We can often get you a temporary certification in as little as 2 weeks. Half the payment upfront and the other half when we get you the temporary certification.

We can create a modern-day modified work program that WCB or WSIB recommends and train you how to use it. It will pay for itself the first time you use it. Programs cost around $500.00

Isnetworld compliance involves setting you up on isn for the first time and answering all of the questionnaires and building the mini-safety, programs they require for various tasks you do. An example of a RAV or mini program is Dropped objects for those contractors who work at heights, it can be challenging to make sure things are falling off of scaffolding and hitting workers below.

Depending on the province you are working in but here in Alberta, it is the law that you have to offer the worker modified work if the worker can do such work. Whether it is the law or not you could cost your company a ton of money and make its future rocky without a program.

When a company is bidding on projects one of the first things you will get asked for is your injury frequency rate. For most companies, this is not a big deal or a deal-breaker but if you have had numerous claims in the last few years, you probably won’t get the job.

To make matters worse this will go on for 3 years until the incidents work their way through the system. How many companies can survive if their main source of income is interrupted for a full 3 years?

Yes, we can build modified work programs for each province in Canada. We follow your provincial WCB guidelines. It is not Called WCB in Each province, however, but we still build modified work programs in those provinces.

We find light-duty jobs injured workers can do within your company while they are healing from an injury. We craft letters offering worker modified work that state salary and potential length of the assignment.

We also educate workers on the duties of the modified work program. For instance, you can refuse a job in the modified work program but then the WCB will likely deny your claim because you have been offered suitable employment.

We also craft the medical release forms they must sign to let us get the latest medical information about their injury.

If a worker is killed on the job, injured to the point where they will need rehabilitation then that worker should and would start a claim on WCB. Anything major is going to start a claim no matter how good a modified work program your company has.

It is still important to remember that there are other factors at play here. For example, if the worker was killed in a vehicle accident was, he at fault for the accident, or is another party responsible for his or her death.

There are also other circumstances where you might apply to transfer some or all the claims’ costs to another company if they were responsible for the incident. You better be on the ball though because unless you ask and know what you are doing, they will just charge the whole thing to you.

The costs vary from province to province and the size of the company, but it would certainly be under $2000.00

Another service we offer is claims administration, this is where we follow the claim and make sure all doctors and medical care are following treatment programs and the worker is on schedule to return to work on a certain date. Often workers will try to delay their return to work for various reasons.

If you have a claim and you ignore it and just wait for the worker to tell you he is ready to return to work you are going to wait 2 times longer than if someone is following up weekly and talking to the worker to make sure they feel they are still part of the team.

In some cases where a worker is not going to recover fully, you are required to keep them employed for a period. If the worker has recovered fully and is no longer on the modified work program, then you can part ways either by layoffs or with cause.

It is important to know that when a worker is on WCB although you can still terminate them the chances of them staying on WCB until the claim is exhausted. This will cost you a lot of money in the long run. I would suggest you find another way to deal with the injured worker until he or she is completely back to work and is off the WCB program entirely