Mario Francoeur

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada's 2023-24 Departmental Plan outlines the organization's priorities and expected achievements for the fiscal year, continuing its five-year strategic roadmap. The plan is guided by six strategic objectives: strengthening investigation impact, fostering an inclusive workplace, employing a skilled workforce, leveraging data for decisions, being digital by default, and communicating with impact. The overarching vision is to be a world-leading investigation authority that advances transportation safety, achieved by conducting independent investigations, identifying safety deficiencies, and making recommendations to reduce risks across air, marine, pipeline, and rail sectors in Canada.

This Strategic Plan positions the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) as a trusted, modern, and impactful safety investigation organization. The plan outlines three strategic objectives: Timeliness, Impact, and Excellence. It aims to deliver credible, timely safety information to contribute to meaningful and lasting safety improvements in the public interest, fostering a world-leading organization that influences lasting changes to advance transportation safety.

This Departmental Plan outlines the Transportation Safety Board of Canada's annual priorities and activities for 2018-19, which are set within its broader five-year Strategic Plan spanning 2016-17 to 2020-21. The plan focuses on four strategic objectives: Serving Canadians, Improving core business processes and products, Modernizing the workplace, and Updating legislative and regulatory frameworks. It aims to enhance the timeliness and quality of investigations, streamline communications, update operational tools and technology, and adapt regulatory frameworks to advance transportation safety.

This TSB Watchlist identifies critical deficiencies in safety management across Canadian air, marine, and rail transportation sectors. The document highlights the ineffectiveness or absence of formal Safety Management Systems (SMS) in many operators, leading to unaddressed hazards and risks. It calls for coordinated action from operators, regulators, and stakeholders to implement regulations requiring all commercial operators to have formal and effective SMS, and for operators to demonstrate their efficacy in identifying and mitigating risks to prevent catastrophic accidents.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada's Accessibility Plan 2022 to 2025 seeks to build a culture of inclusiveness by identifying and removing existing barriers and preventing future barriers within the workplace. This third progress report details efforts across key areas including employment, the built environment, information and communication technologies, communications, procurement of goods, services, and facilities, the design and delivery of programs and services, and transportation.