Experience Rating: Morneau Sobeco report As you know, third-party expert Morneau Sobeco examined the WSIB’s Experience Rating program to explore ways to align the program with the Road to Zero and our vision of eliminating all workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses. Morneau Sobeco have prepared and issued a report with recommendations on ways to help quickly and effectively strengthen the link between incentives and real performance in health and safety. The WSIB Board of Directors received the Morneau Sobeco report and authorized the release of the report’s recommendations for public consultation. Their report is now available (500k, pdf). In preparing the recommendations, meetings were held with stakeholders representing employer and labour groups, including the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Ontario Federation of Labour, the Ontario Business Coalition, the Injured Worker Outreach Services and the Provincial Building Trades Council of Ontario. These meetings gave our key stakeholders the opportunity to share their opinions on the Experience Rating program, the review itself, and the future of health and safety incentive programs in Ontario. Stakeholders will have a chance to provide feedback on Morneau Sobeco’s recommendations during a wide-reaching consultation process, to be led in the coming weeks by the Hon. Steven W. Mahoney, WSIB Chair. The consultation will open discussion on the WSIB’s programs and services — including Experience Rating. More details will be provided soon. In the meantime, read the Chair’s update (250k, pdf). We look forward to more stakeholder input and extensive engagement, both during the consultation period and well into 2009, when the WSIB’s Experience Rating review moves into the long-term phase.