Hello everyone and thank you for tuning in to another monthly Excellence newsletter. This month,
we wanted to take some time to go over a very important resource, the WSIB Program Member
Guidelines. The WSIB Program Member Guidelines were developed to assist businesses with
understanding the program requirements, and the administration and key milestones of the
program.
There are 5 documents (Step 1. Join, Step 2. Develop, Step 3. Demonstrate, Step 4. Achieve, and
the HSEP - Health and Safety Topics Guide) that contains everything you need to know about the
Excellence Program, and we recommend these are one of the first documents you go through
when you begin your Excellence journey. You will find information on the health and safety
assessment, the safety culture survey, topic selection guidelines, and other information that will
assist you in the first stages of the Excellence process.
Most importantly, the HSEP - Health and Safety Topics Guide includes the requirements for each
of the available topics. We cannot stress how important it is to review these topic requirements
before you select your topics. The WSIB will be looking to see how your organization applied the
steps of implementation to all the topic requirements. As such, it is important to look at the
requirements and make sure that you are aware of the expectations of the topic, rather than
simply going off the name of the topic.
For example, it would be fair to assume that the First Aid topic would cover the First Aid
certification (not the actual training, but making sure there are the legislatively required First
Aiders). However, the topic requirements reveal that this topic requires organizations to develop
a treatment reporting process, First Aid kit inspections, and ensuring legislated requirements are
met. Sometimes what you think the topic would involve turns out to be much more. Better to be
aware of these requirements before it is too late!
