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Occupational Injuries and Diseases in Canada, 1996 – 2008

These statistics provide users in government, industry, labour, and academia with a factual basis for establishing and evaluating health and safety programs.

Section I details some major highlights resulting from the statistical data.

Sections II - III describe the concepts used in this publication, the principal sources of data, and the data collection methods, including a discussion of their limitations.

Section IV analyzes injury and workers' compensation statistics for Canadian industries in all jurisdictions. The data comes from occupational injury claims submitted by employers to provincial/territorial workers' compensation boards/commissions and from employment data published by Statistics Canada.

The majority of the data presented in this report were obtained from official data already released to the general public by the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC).

For enquiries regarding this report please contact:
Manager, Research and Analysis
Occupational Health and Safety Division,
Labour Program,
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada,
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0J9
Telephone: (819) 994-1716

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Date Modified:
2012-03-14