Report Unsafe Work on WSCC Connect.

Yellowknife, NT (December 6, 2022) – On December 5, 2022, Diavik Diamond Mines appeared in the Northwest Territories Territorial Court in Yellowknife, and entered a guilty plea to an offence under the Mine Health & Safety Act.

The mine pleaded guilty to a single count that it did “fail to take every reasonable measure and precaution to protect the health and safety of employees at the mine” contrary to the Mine Health and Safety Act. 

Yellowknife, NT (November 28, 2022) – The Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (WSCC) announces that the average employer assessment rate is remaining at $2.40 per $100 of assessable payroll, unchanged since 2020.

This is the base rate the WSCC uses as a starting point when setting individual subclass rates.

Subclasses are employers who have similar operations and share similar risks. Each employer pays a specific amount based on the group rate for their industry and the size of their payroll.