THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

B.C.’s CRIMINAL INJURIES ACT

British Columbia’s new
Criminal Injuries Compensa-
tion Act went into effect on
July 1.

The Act, which was guided
through the last session of the
provincial legislature by the
Honourable Leslie R. Peter-
son, Q.C., is considered the
most generous and compre-
hensive of its type in North
America. The Act provides
compensation for victims of 39
different types of crimes of
violence ranging from ab-
duction to common assault, ad-
ministering poison or turning
in a false alarm. In the case of
death, compensation is pro-

vided to the victim’s de-
pendants.

Benefits take many forms,
including lump sum payments
from $100 up to $15,000, period-
ic payments over months or
years, medical expenses,
burial expenses, rehabilitation
treatment and job counselling.

Administration of the Act is
handled by the Workmen’s-
Compensation Board. The
funds required for the plan
come from the provincial
government.

The WCB has the authority to
pay compensation to a victim
of a crime, even though no

prosecution or conviction has
taken place.

The new legislation, repeals
the Law Enforcement Officers
Assistance Compensation Act,
which was passed in 1969 to
provide compensation to citi-
zens who were injured while
assisting the police. Those who
assist police officers in dealing
with crime are now covered
under the new Act.

Booklets describing the
benefits available under the
Criminal Injuries Compensa-
tion Act are available at all
WCB offices, police stations,
hospitals and other ence
ment agencies.

11.98 FREQUENCY RATE

CROWN ZELLERBACH
WINS 9 SAFETY AWARDS

Crown Zellerbach Canada
Ltd. has won nine of 20 Work-
men’s Compensation Board

Meritorious Safety Awards.

The awards, announced by
WCB Chairman Cyril White,
Q.C., are made annually -to
forest industry firms which
have achieved the best safety
record for their class in the
previous year.

The multiple operations of
Crown Zellerbach won the top
three awards for logging,
sawmill and plywoood classes.
Six other CZ operations also
won awards.

Crown Zellerbach logging,
with more than 700,000 man-
hours worked, recorded an
accident frequency rate of
11.98, as compared with the
logging industry average of
57.07. Sawmill employees of CZ
worked over 1,000,000 man-
hours with an _ accident
frequency of 8.04, compared to
the sawmill average of 35.69.
Crown Zellerbach, Fraser
Mills won the top plywood
division award with an ac-
cident frequency of 4.12. The

division recorded over 500,000
man-hours during 1971.
Average accident frequency in
the plywood industry was 24.18.

The accident frequency rate
is based on the number of
compensable time-loss injuries
per million man-hours worked.
More than 2,000 forest product
firms in the province par-
ticipated in the competition.

MacMillan Bloedel Limited,
particleboard division, won the
Meritorious Award for the
millwork class with a zero
frequency over 100,000 man-
hours.

A zero accident frequency
also won B.C. Forest Products
Ltd., the shingle mill award for
their Hammond Shingle mill
division.

Crestwood Pulp and Paper
Limited, won the Meritorious
Award for the pulp and paper
class, also with a zero accident
frequency.

In all, 20 B.C. wood product
operations were honoured with
Meritorious Safety Awards by
the WCB =

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