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WSIB Form 7 and Ontario reporting software
An injury needing health care beyond first aid, or causing lost time, means a Form 7 to the WSIB within 3 days of learning of it.
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What Ministry of Labour asks of you
Regulator logs and the deadline clocks Coming in Q1 2027
What goes on the record
A work-related injury or illness that needs health care beyond first aid, or keeps the worker off work or on lower earnings.
How it is kept
- One record per employer.
- Injury rates per 200,000 hours worked.
| What happened | Who is told | When | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| A death or a critical injury: an inspector, the joint health and safety committee and the trade union told immediately, a written report within 48 hours, and the scene left as it is. Keep the site as it is. | Ministry of Labour | Immediately | by phone, in writing |
| A worker disabled from their usual work, or needing medical attention, after an accident, explosion, fire or workplace violence, with nobody killed or critically injured: written notice within four days to the joint health and safety committee (or representative) and the trade union, and to the Ministry’s Director when an inspector asks for it. | the joint health and safety committee | Within 4 days | in writing |
| A work-related injury or illness needing health care beyond first aid, or causing lost time or lower earnings. | WSIB | Within 3 days of learning of it | online |
The forms, filled in from the report
- WSIB Form 7: Employer’s Report of Injury/Illness
The report is made once. Every field the form shares with it is filled in; you add what only you know, check it and send it yourself.
A case, judged
A worker cuts their hand and has first aid only: First aid only. Nothing to report to Ministry of Labour.
If it keeps them off work for 8 days: Injury register: Lost time. the joint health and safety committee, WSIB, by Oct 9, 2026, Oct 8, 2026, on the WSIB Form 7: Employer’s Report of Injury/Illness.
Athena proposes the answer and shows the rule it used. A person decides, and only a person sends anything to Ministry of Labour.
In Canada, it is called
| The injury record | Injury register |
|---|---|
| The risk assessment for a task | JHA |
| The person who runs safety | Health and safety coordinator |
| A short safety talk | Toolbox talk |
| The report to the regulator | Ministry of Labour report |
| A case with time off work | Lost time injury |
Money in CAD, and dates written as they are in Canada, at each site’s own time.
Where these rules come from
Drafted from the public sources below, read on 26 October 2026.
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety: OH&S legislation in Canada
- Occupational Health and Safety Act (Ontario) (R.S.O. 1990, c. O.1, s. 52)
- WSIB
- Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997, s. 21 (S.O. 1997, c. 16, Sched. A, s. 21)
- O. Reg. 834: Critical injury: defined
- WSIB Form 7
Not yet reviewed by a qualified person in Canada: until one has, every rule is marked to be checked, in the product as here. Each rule has a version, and a case keeps the version it was judged under.
Run Ministry of Labour’s rules on your own sites.
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