WSIB Research and Grants Program

• The proposal must support innovative work that advances WSIB’s strategic mandate and improves workplace injury and illness insurance system outcomes.
• The work must be a practical research or training study with results relevant to the workplace safety and compensation system.
• Research proposals should deliver practical results for workplace safety and the compensation system.
• Workplace-based projects should create partnerships between workplaces, researchers, and organizations.
• Training proposals should address long-standing barriers for injured or ill workers, employers, and the compensation system, or build community capacity with potential to improve system results.

Who is eligible?

• Professionals delivering practical research studies
• Organizations delivering practical research studies
• Workplaces partnering with researchers and organizations on workplace-based projects

Who is not eligible

Eligible expenses

Ineligible Costs and Activities

Eligible geographic areas

• Ontario

• Develop a proposal under one of the accepted types (research or training).
• Align the proposal with the program objective to improve workplace injury and illness insurance system outcomes.
• For the 2025 competition, address relevant considerations (how we work, health and safety approach, return-to-work and recovery support).

• Submit the initial application for the relevant intake before the posted deadline.

• Proceed through the second stage of the program’s two-staged application process as directed by WSIB.

• Applications go through a two-staged process.
• Proposals are assessed through a rigorous and transparent selection process.
• Selection is based on pre-established criteria.

• The program supports highly practical research and training studies intended to improve Ontario’s workplace safety and workers’ compensation system.
• The 2025 competition emphasizes research that helps make Ontario the safest place to work, considering how we work, how health and safety is approached, and how return-to-work and recovery are supported.
• The proposal selection process is described as rigorous and transparent, based on pre-established criteria.
• The application process is two-staged.