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Reporting and Managing an Injury

Your first priority when an injury occurs is to make sure your employee gets the first aid and medical attention they need.

Follow these steps right away, no matter what kind of workplace injury occurs:

• Contact the employee to ask how they’re doing.

• Provide or seek immediate healthcare for your employee. See the Direct Access section for more information.

• Reassure the employee that you will do what you can to help them get safely back to work as soon as possible if they need to take time off.

You are required by law to report the injury to WCB within 5 business days after the injury was reported to you. If you are late, you may be assessed a penalty. All injuries that required any level of medical attention or for the employee to take time off must be reported.

The injury report form can be accessed and submitted through MyAccount.

You can learn more about reporting an injury, submitting the form, and reporting serious and fatal injuries here.