WSIB Health and Safety Excellence Program (HSEp)

This program is designed to accomplish two primary objectives:

• Increase safety in your workplace through the creation, training, implementation, and monitoring of various health and safety policies and procedures – based on the topics chosen.
• Provide employers with a rebate on their WSIB premiums as a result of the successful implementation of the chosen topics.

The WSIB’s Health and Safety Excellence Program involves the following key steps:

1. Join
   1. Registering with an approved provider of the program and completing a health and safety assessment through your WSIB portal.
   2. Selecting up to five health and safety topics to develop throughout the calendar year.
2. Develop
   1. Selecting an implementation model that will be used as a guide for topic development, we recommend using the Plan, Do, Check, and Act cycle, also known as the PDCA cycle.
   2. Follow the cycle through its process working with the provider where guidance may be needed.
3. Achieve
   1. Once development and training are completed, and you have verified and uploaded evidence to show each topic was successfully implemented in the workplace, you will now have the evidence reviewed by a WSIB validator and if successful, will receive a rebate and validation.

Our experience, not only as a provider but also as an independently owned business is that this program is worth the effort.

This program allows each employer to complete up to five health and safety topics each year, with a potential rebate of up to 2% per topic, based on the previous years paid WSIB premiums.

No matter how large or small your business is, WSIB’s Health and Safety Excellence program can help. Keeping your team safe and healthy at work is good for business. The WSIB program provides a clear road map to improve workplace safety. There are opportunities and benefits whether you are just getting started or want to improve existing systems and processes that are already in place.

WSIB HSEp Benefits Include:

• Rebates on your WSIB premiums
• Saving money by improving your safety experience
• Reduced risk of injuries and illnesses in your workplace and a stronger health and safety culture
• Support and guidance from an experienced provider
• Additional financial support to help smaller businesses enhance their health and safety planning and boost their bottom line
• Recognition to show your employees, community, and clients that your company is committed to health and safety

Currently, each completed topic makes you eligible for up to a 2% rebate on the previous years WSIB premiums. In addition, the WSIB has a promotion in place where workplaces with less than 99 employees can receive double the rebate as well as $1,000.00 bonus just for signing up and submitting an action plan. This means that whatever your rebate is, it will be doubled!

This promotion expires December of 2023.

If you are interested in learning more about the Health and Safety Excellence Program, please contact us.