Registration

Registration with WorkSafeBC ensures that any staff you employ, such as medical office assistants and clinical staff, receive coverage for healthcare benefits, wage-loss benefits, and rehabilitation benefits in the event of a work-related injury or illness.

Other reasons are:

• Registration ensures physician employers are not subject to lawsuits from workers or other employers for work-related injury or illness (i.e., no-fault insurance system).
• If you do not register and an employee is injured, you could be responsible for both the employee’s WorkSafeBC claim costs and your unpaid premiums.
• If a community physician meets WorkSafeBC registration criteria as an employer, but has not been paying premiums, WorkSafeBC may charge physicians retroactively.
• If applicable, registration with WorkSafeBC can be a requirement to maintain hospital privileges in British Columbia.

Registration is required if:

• You hire workers, or
• You operate an incorporated company (whether a partnership, corporation or sole proprietorship) that hires workers.

How to register:

WorkSafeBC Physician Registration Application (pdf)

Application for Personal Optional Protection (pdf)

Registration is not required if:

• Your income is exclusively reflected in a T4 or a T4A Statement.
• You exclusively provide your services to a health authority under a salary agreement as described in the Physician Master Agreement.

Note: If you receive a T4 statement fulfilling the role of worker, but you also fulfill the role of employer as the business owner, you are required to register.