WSIB Health and Safety Excellence Program
WSIB Health and Safety Excellence program video to make your workplace safer, while earning rebates on your WSIB premiums. As an approved provider that delivers the program on behalf of the WSIB, we’ll help you every step of the way.
The program has over 40 topics to choose from spread across three levels – foundation, intermediate and advanced. Completing topics can help you reduce the chances of workplace injuries and illnesses, support the psychological well-being of employees and boost productivity. We’ll help you choose and implement the topics that make sense for your business.
The amount you earn in rebates is based on the number of topics you complete and your WSIB premiums for the previous year. Plus, you’ll receive an extra $1,000 every time you create a new health and safety action plan.
If you’re a small business or new to health and safety, we make it easier for you to build your health and safety program and give you confidence you're taking the right steps to make your workplace safer.
The Health and Safety Excellence program can also help businesses with mature health and safety get ready to achieve best practice standards, such as COR® 2020, ISO 45001:2018, and the province’s accreditation program, Supporting Ontario's Safe Employers.
Check out the WSIB’s frequently asked questions to learn more.
WSIB 2025 Health and Safety Excellence Program Manual
WSIB 2025 Health and Safety Excellence Program Manual helps you have an overview of the program.
Contents includes:
- Introduction
- Before you get started
- Step 1: Join
- Choosing topics
- Step 2: Develop
- Step 3: Demonstrate
- WSIB Validation
- Step 4: Achieve
- Rebates
- Health and Safety Excellence Program Badges
WSIB Health and Safety Excellence Program topic selection requirements
How does IHSA help?
The Health and Safety Excellence Program connects you with WSIB-approved providers that will help you develop a health and safety program suitable for your workplace.
As an approved provider, IHSA will deliver services to help members develop the skills, abilities, and resources toward the implementation and completion of the Excellence Program’s health and safety topics.
We offer the Health and Safety Excellence program in English only. To find a provider that offers the full program in French, please contact the WSIB at healthandsafetyexcellence@wsib.on.ca and they’ll recommend the provider(s) that best matches your needs.
Nous offrons le programme Excellence en santé et sécurité en anglais seulement. Pour trouver un prestataire qui offre tout le programme en français, veuillez communiquer avec la WSIB à excellenceensanteetsecurite@wsib.on.ca et elle vous recommandera le ou les prestataires qui correspondent le plus à vos besoins.
For more information about the registration process click here.
For IHSA Health and Safety Excellence program inquiries please email: excellenceprogram@ihsa.ca
Benefits to Your Company
- Earn rebates and lower your premiums.
- Improve your health and safety experience.
- Gain access to a team of leading health and safety experts.
- Receive exclusive access to IHSA member resources.
- Build a well-crafted and functional health and safety program.
Program Features
- Employers can choose to work on one to five health and safety topics in a 12-month period.
- Flexible timelines allow employers to work at their own pace.
- Financial and non-financial recognition is based on individual participant performance.
- Employers will submit program documentation online to IHSA prior to WSIB validation.
- Employers choose where they start in the program, not necessarily at level one.
Services & Fees
NOTE
When registration is complete and the health and safety action plan (topic selection) is approved, the WSIB will issue $1,000 incentive by cheque (unless you have a balance owing to the WSIB, in which case your rebate will be applied to the WSIB account first).
Small Businesses with 1 to 49 Employees
Medium Businesses with 50 to 99 Employees
Large Businesses with 100 or more Employees
There is a fee of $920.00 + HST for small businesses.
There is a fee of $1,795 + HST for medium businesses.
There is a fee of $4,085 + HST for large businesses.
Included in your registration fee
- Direct access to subject matter experts, IHSA resources and networking.
- One free e-learning registration: Introduction to Hazard & Risk Management course.
- Opportunity to participate in meetings/webinars related to health and safety management system topics.
- Pre-submission to WSIB desk review and report.
- Consultation with an IHSA Health and Safety Management System Consultant (assist with topic selection/topic development/topic submission for WSIB validation).
- This fee is non-refundable and applies annually or on completion of an action plan, whichever is first.
- Additional mandatory timelines apply throughout the program.
This fee is non-refundable and applies annually or on completion of an action plan, whichever is first.
For more information or if you have general inquiries, please contact excellenceprogram@ihsa.ca
Registration Process
- Firm completes registration form online and submits
- Firm receives a confirmation email that their registration form is under review
- Firm receives an email to complete the payment process
- Firm receives the link to the WSIB digital portal
- Firm registers in the portal and completes the health and safety assessment
- IHSA program consultant contacts the firm to provide program support
Many of our Excellence Program members go on to achieve recognition through COR®! Please visit our COR® page or discuss this option with your consultant.
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