The Safe Advantage Program, there are two parts to this program. The first part of any penalty or any fine comes as a result of claims history and experience, and that’s based on a formula that the WSCC has put in place that looks at the government as a whole because they consider us one employer as opposed to many
employers. But they run it through the formula and we are assessed based on the number of claims in the government. If we’re over a certain threshold, we get a fine. If we’re at the threshold, obviously we don’t blow it; obviously we don’t. In 2010 and 2011 we were fined for $243,000.
There is a second part of the process that individual employers, the GNWT in this case, are put through a questionnaire process. So they’ll go to one division, section or department in the government and they will go through a questionnaire process. Last year the questionnaire was asked in the Department of Human Resources and we passed that. As a result there was no secondary portion of the fine, which is usually half of the claims fine. If we failed that, our fine would have been about another $120,000 higher. We passed it; we didn’t get that second portion, but we did have the initial fine of $243,000. Based on what we know of our claims to date, we expect that we will be over the threshold, assuming the threshold stays the same as it was in previous years. So we are expecting a fine once again.
The second part of the questionnaire would depend on how the departments, division, section or whatever went through the interview process, how they fared through that interview process, and once we have that data, we will be obviously sharing it with committee to let them know the status. Thank you, Mr. Chair.