SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Workplace injury rates in New Brunswick have decreased again, making it one of the safest Canadian provinces in which to work, according to the 2014 Annual Report from WorkSafeNB, the province’s workers’ compensation board. In 2014, there were 2.89 injuries for every 100 full-time employees – a decrease from previous years – and 96 per cent of injured workers were capable of returning to work post-rehabilitation, the report revealed. In addition, 86.4 per cent of workers who attended the organization’s Rehabilitation Centre in Grand Bay-Westfield were mostly or completely satisfied with its services, WorkSafeNB claimed. “New Brunswickers have continued to demonstrate that a workplace is much more than the place where people come to punch a clock and do their jobs,” said WorkSafeNB president and CEO Gerard Adams, in an April 2 press release. “It is a place where individual effort and group collaboration are essential to all aspects of an organization’s success, including the creation of a health and safety culture.” Because of the declining occupational injury rates, employers in N.B. pay lower insurance rates than those in other Atlantic provinces do, the report also said.