Workers’ Compensation

WorkSafeBC

"WorkSafeBC administers the Workers' Compensation Act for the B.C. Ministry of Labour and Citizens' Services. The Workers Compensation Act gives WorkSafeBC the legal authority to set and enforce occupational health and safety standards and establish policies regarding compensation, assessment, rehabilitation, and occupational health and safety."
            - worksafebc.com, 2008

Within the Workers' Compensation Act, it states "In addition to the other compensation provided by this Part, the Board may furnish or provide for the injured worker any medical, surgical, hospital, nursing and other care or treatment, transportation, medicines, crutches and apparatus, including artificial members, that it may consider reasonably necessary at the time of the injury, and thereafter during the disability to cure and relieve from the effects of the injury or alleviate those effects, and the Board may adopt rules and regulations with respect to furnishing health care to injured workers entitled to it and for the payment of it…"
            - Workers' Compensation Act, 1996

WorkSafeBC and Spine Injuries

Worksafe BC is a true advocate for the working men and women of British Columbia. Access to medical resources (MRI, CT, operating room time, hospital beds) and medical care (physicians, nurses, therapists) has become increasingly difficult across the country. WorkSafe BC provides a means of gaining access to quality medical care in a timely fashion. Essentially, WorkSafe is involved in a win-win relationship with its clientele; the sooner an injured worker can heal and recover from their injury, the sooner they can return to work. WorkSafe BC understands that the up front cost of acquiring efficient, first-rate medical management for an injured worker is easily offset by the lack of unnecessary ongoing investigations and the return of that individual to the workplace.

The team members at WorkSafe BC have become increasingly aware of the benefits of minimally invasive spine care in the management of neck and back injuries in the workplace. Their willingness to approve medically necessary investigations (MRI, CT) and treatment (spine injections, minimally invasive spine procedures) has improved the standard of care and quality of life of their workers.