The compensation policy review Restoring the Balance: A Worker-Centred Approach to Workers’ Compensation Policy makes two recommendations to amend WorkSafeBC’s mental disorder policy in the Rehabilitation Services & Claims Manual, Volume II.

• Recommendation #39 suggests amending policy to update the definition of "significant work-related stressor" by removing the requirement for the stressor to be unusual.
• Recommendation #40 suggests amending policy to clarify the application of the "labour relations exclusion" provision in the Workers Compensation Act.

Our Policy, Regulation and Research Department is releasing a discussion paper, with options on proposed amendments to mental disorder policy, for public consultation.

Consultation closed on October 6, 2023.