Yukon Workers Compensation Health and Safety Board (YWCHSB) collects claim information in order to administer and enforce the Worker's Compensation Act. Under the Workers' Compensation Act, employers have the right to information about a worker's work-related injury.
The Public Service Commission (PSC), as the employer of the Yukon Government, and the YWCHSB are entering into an information sharing agreement, in which the purpose of the agreement is to promote worker health and safety by using statistical information to understand the current claim trends and report on the findings. This will be done by developing a safety dashboard with aggregated data and supplying information to departments on aggregated claim information. Furthermore, PSC may use the information to respond to individual departmental information requests related to their overall claims (aggregated numbers only).
PSC will receive a monthly data extract (of Excel entries) containing details of all current claims submitted by YG employees. The data extract includes individual data sets that are anonymized, but, when combined with other information the employer may have or publicly available, could be used to identify an individual. The detailed information is required by the employer in order to provide summary reports based on the various data points provided. Datasets will be converted into diagrams on an Excel file.
