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Strategic goals

WorkSafeBC holds itself accountable for meeting its strategic goals and reporting its progress to its stakeholders in an open and accessible manner. To help measure and communicate that progress, WorkSafeBC tracks several key performance indicators. These indicators are tied directly to WorkSafeBC's Strategic Plan and are used to measure WorkSafeBC's progress against its major corporate goals.

Beyond simply acting as a balanced scorecard, these performance indicators provide direction, promote accountability, promote cross-divisional thinking, and provide an explicit link between objectives and actions.

Although there are several performance measures used within each division at WorkSafeBC, the following table shows the main indicators of WorkSafeBC's organizational performance as a whole. They reflect the broadest and most fundamental objectives set out in the WorkSafeBC's strategic plan, and collectively they provide a bird's-eye view of the WorkSafeBC's operational performance.

2009 highlights at a glance

The following chart provides a quick overview of WorkSafeBC's performance targets and results for the year 2009. In each measurement category, you'll find WorkSafeBC's target goal, actual result achieved, and 2010 target.

For more information, visit WorkSafeBC's 2009 Annual Report and 2010-2012 Service Plan.

Key objective/
performance indicator

2009
target

2009 result

2010 target

Reduce the provincial injury rate (the number of short-term disability claims accepted by WorkSafeBC per 100 person-years of employment)

3.00
or less

2.37

2.60
or less

Reduce the average short-term claim duration

48.5 days

54.6 days

53.0 days

Improve return-to-work outcomes for workers in vocational rehabilitation

75%
or more

71.8%

75%
or more

Improve timeliness of initial short-term disability payments

17.5 days

26.6 days

22.0 days

Improve injured workers' rating of overall experience with WorkSafeBC

74%
good or very good

65%
good or very good

72%
good or very good

Improve employers' rating of overall experience with WorkSafeBC

80%
good or very good

78%
good or very good

78%
good or very good

Raise public confidence

83%
positive

86% positive

84% positive

Achieve 100 percent of the target asset level

88%

92%

90%

Attain an aggregate premium rate between $1.25 and $2.25 (per $100 of assessable payroll)

$1.52

$1.40

$1.41

Control administration costs (per $100 of assessable payroll)

$0.34

$0.36

$0.36

Improve decision making throughout WorkSafeBC, ensuring consistency with legislation and policy (proportion of issues leading to overturned decisions at the review and/or appeal level due to WorkSafeBC error in law or policy)

Review level:

2.0%
or less

 

1.3%

 

2.0%
or less

 

Appeal level:

2.5%
or less

 

2.0%

2.5%
or less