• The WLRF is a powerful tool to make sure your voice is heard – it is an opportunity to share what is going on in your workplace and our healthcare system. The WLRF is crucial for protecting your nursing license in a healthcare environment that is constantly under-resourced and overloaded.
• When you fill out a WLRF, you are helping to strengthen the nursing profession and advocating for a quality practice setting. Advocating for a quality practice setting will allow the people you provide care for to achieve quality outcomes.
• To put it simply, you would fill out a WLRF when a professional practice concern that is addressed with a charge nurse or other workplace leader does not improve your practice environment. The tool allows you to document your ask to management to share accountability for professional practice issues in the workplace.

• WLRF Hospital Flow Chart
• WLRF LTC Flow Chart
• WLRF HCC Flow Chart

• WLRF Hospital Form
• WLRF LTC Form
• WLRF HCC Form

• If you cannot fill out the WLRF online, you can still complete a paper copy and have it faxed to the MSC at 1-855-233-8238. Please keep a copy of the completed form for yourself.
• Once received, SEIU staff will input the information into the website and send you an email copy of the form.

To make the process more efficient and convenient, you can now access the Workload Review Form on our mobile app!

All you have to do is:

1. Click on “Resources” at the bottom of the screen.
2. Click on the “SEIU Files” tab.
3. Click on “1 Step Away from Submitting your Workload Review Form”.
4. Complete and submit your Workload Review Form.

After filling out a Workload Review Form on the SEIU mobile app, a copy will be directed to the manager you indicate, your SEIU Healthcare Union Representative, and you. The WLRF will help track the professional practice issues you are trying to resolve with your employer.

Click here to go to SEIU’s Workload Website: seiunurses.ca/workload

Yes. SEIU staff will input the information into the website and send you an email copy of the form.

A single WRLF might be brushed aside by the employer as a one-off; however, when nurses fill out a WLRF any time they are short-staffed or made to work in an unsafe environment, this demonstrates a pattern. Documenting and reporting to both the union and employer allows the union to bargain and push for more f loor resources and safer conditions. Workload Review forms are an essential resource that protects an employee from an unsafe situation out of their control.

As we tell all nurses, if you didn’t chart, it didn’t happen. Don’t let your employer continue to make you work in an unsafe environment - document it and empower your colleagues to do so as well to improve your working conditions.

Recording every unsafe incident and situation you encounter is vital. It not only holds your employer accountable, but it is essential for your nursing profession and provides evidence and proof to support you during management meetings, bargaining, union initiatives and important conversations with political leaders. The extra step of completing a WLRF can potentially protect your license when you’ve been placed in a difficult situation by your employer.

We know you are busy and have enough on your plate, but if it’s not documented, your employer could say it never happened. Workload Review Forms are an essential resource that protects an employee from an unsafe situation out of their control. Documenting and reporting to both the union and employer also allows the union to bargain and push for more floor resources and safer conditions.

If you have more questions about Workload Review Forms, your Member Service Centre is here for you. You can reach the MSC by calling 1-877-672-7348 or through Live Chat on our SEIU Healthcare app available for download for iOS and Android phones.