February 2025

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While many slip, trip, and fall injuries happen during the winter because of traction conditions, hazards also exist indoors that lead to similar injuries. The first step to preventing injuries from slips, trips, and falls is to do a hazard assessment. 

Some indoor trip and slip hazards may be easy to spot, such as:

• Slippery or wet floors, such as melting snow from boots, oil spill, spilled coffee,
• Clutter in workspaces, such as cables that run across the floor, desk drawers left open, or items stacked in high traffic areas,
• Poor lighting or visibility.

For an easy way to identify and control slip, trip, and fall hazards at your workplace use the WSCC’s Hazard Assessment template to help workers and supervisors identify worksite hazards, and choose the right controls for the hazards you find. 

To learn more about preventing injuries related to slips, trips, and falls, visit WSCC’s Safety Spotlight webpage.

Your Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) issued business number (BN) is a 9-digit number CRA assigns to a business, and is unique to that business or legal entity. Please check that we have your CRA BN in WSCC Connect. 

To check your account, you must log in to WSCC Connect and have a Manage Employer Profile user role to review or update the Employer Profile. It’s easy to check or make updates, and it takes only a few minutes to complete.

Need access to the Employer Profile? An employer’s Access Administrator can grant access to the Manage Employer Profile user role by logging in to WSCC Connect to access the Account Management service. 

The deadline to submit your Annual Payroll Report (APR) is February 28, 2025. 

Important things to remember:

• You must submit your APR, even if you are reporting zero (0) payroll. 
• The penalty for late submission is 15% of your previous year’s employer payroll assessment.
• Be prepared to answer occupational health and safety questions as part of the process. To review the questions, see page 4 of the Guide to Completing Annual Payroll Reporting.

Expecting changes to your payroll this year?

Are you expecting to see a significant variance in your payroll reporting this year? If you are, please provide the details explaining why in the ‘Additional Payroll Comments’ section of your APR. This is located in Step 2 of Report Payroll on WSCC Connect. By providing this information, you may save yourself a follow-up call from the Employer Services team.

To submit your APR, log in to WSCC Connect.

Need help completing your APR? Visit the WSCC Connect Help page, or contact Employer Services in your territory at:

• Nunavut: 1-877-404-4407
• Northwest Territories: 1-800-661-0792 

Safe Workplace is a tool to help you understand your legislated workplace health and safety requirements.

There are six criteria that employers must meet under Nunavut and NWT Safety Acts and Workers Compensation Acts. Safe Workplace has an up-to-date status showing whether you are meeting your legislated obligations. If you’re not yet fully compliant, it shows the criteria you are not currently meeting while connecting you with resources to help you understand what is necessary to achieve a successful status. 

With Annual Payroll Reporting (APR) season upon us, take the opportunity to review and update your organization’s Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) responses. Be proud of placing your workers’ health and well-being as a top priority! Learn more.

Know a young person who takes safety seriously? Tell them about WSCC’s Youth Video Contest! 

Youth aged 14-19 from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (with sponsorship from their school or a youth organization) are invited to submit an under 2-minute video about staying safe at work. 

The winning team will receive $1,000, and their sponsor school or organization also receives $1,000. The video then moves on to the national contest held by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) for a chance to win another $2,000 each!

Deadline to submit is April 4, 2025. Visit the contest web page for more information!  

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