An administrative dataset from Alberta's Workers Compensation Board and government evaluates the impact of occupational health and safety inspections on injury rates. The data is structured at the employer-industry-year-month level, combining workers' compensation claims with regulatory enforcement activity. It was created for the Partnership for Work, Health and Safety (PWHS) to analyze firm-level outcomes.
Use Cases
- Evaluate the effectiveness of regulatory inspections based on enforcement activity linked to injury rates.
- Analyze trends in workplace injuries based on employer-industry-year-month aggregated workers' compensation data.
- Model the relationship between OHS enforcement and firm-level outcomes based on combined administrative records.
Strengths
- Data combines two authoritative sources: Alberta Workers Compensation Board claims and Government of Alberta enforcement records.
- Structured at employer-industry-year-month level, enabling granular temporal and sectoral analysis.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Alberta and Alberta Workers Compensation Board.
- Collection Method
- Combined administrative data from workers' compensation claims and OHS regulatory enforcement activity.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 14:45:30.845440; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Alberta, Canada.