Obviously, we don’t want to see any late submissions. That’s not our desire. We’d obviously like to save the $56,000. There are some challenges that we face and there are times when late submissions do occur. Sometimes there are time delays when an incident

occurred and when the employee reported the occurrence to the supervisor. But as soon as the supervisor becomes aware, you get them to submit a form. There have been delays between when an incident occurred and when an employee sought medical attention. They may not have thought they were injured or that they needed attention. Then the condition or the injury got larger or more obvious later on.

There were situations where employees and their supervisors were not aware that there was a requirement to report all workplace incidents, and this is something we are trying to deal with and we’re doing it through the workplace occupational health and safety committees, making sure employees are aware that every and all injuries must be reported. We don’t want this to be an excuse. We think we can work on this and we are working on that one.

There was a situation where there was an understanding between an employee and a supervisor on the process to be used to submit required WSCC forms. This is one, again, an area we can work with our occupational health and safety committees to make sure they are providing the accurate information to supervisors and employees. So we want this to go away. We want this number to drop, and hopefully we will see some results on that as we continue to move forward and help educate our staff and our managers, senior managers, on the requirements for reporting across the Northwest Territories.