ADMS 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Occupational Disease, Incubation Period
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Purpose of wcbs across canada is to create more safety-conscious work environments, and to encourage corporations to reduce the number of work-related accidents, disabilities, and disease. Any abnormal condition or disorder caused by exposure to environmental factors associated with employment. Latency period is a major factor in determining the acceptability of the claim. A disease resulting from exposure to a substance relating to a particular process, trade, or occupation in an industry, A disease peculiar to or characteristic of a particular industrial process, trade or occupation, A medical condition that in the opinion of the wsib requires a worker to be removed either temporarily or permanently from exposure to a substance because the condition may be a precursor to an occupational disease, or. A disease mentioned in schedule 3 or 4. Schedule 4: workers only have to prove that they have the disease and that they were employed in the corresponding work process to be granted entitlement.