Transport Canada's safety and security programs provide a broad range of activities. These include regulatory authorizations, such as the issuance of certificates and licenses to people, organizations or for equipment; compliance verifications through inspections and audits; and enforcement actions in response to non-compliance. They also include education and outreach activities targeting key stakeholders, such as regulatory bodies, as well as the general public.
Transport Canada monitors these oversight activities on a quarterly basis across all of its programs and administrative regions. Starting with fiscal year 2017/2018, the department is publishing data for regulatory authorizations, planned risk-based and reactive oversight activities—such as technical inspections and audits—as well as quality assurance and control activities. Other oversight activities will be added in the future.
A table containing these data is now available.
Safety and security oversight transparency at Transport Canada
The goal of Transport Canada’s Oversight Transparency Initiative is to give Canadians easy access to timely information on its safety and security programs. Sharing this information earns the public’s trust and engages Canadians, while also helping them make decisions that support a safe and secure transportation system.
What’s changing?
We’re changing how we work and manage information to
- make information easy for all Canadians to find, read and use
- change how we create, publish and store information.
What’s next?
Over the next two years, we will be publishing more of Transport Canada’s oversight information.
Phase 1 involves publishing information that currently exists within the safety and security programs and is easy to share. Phase 1 also includes the launch of Open TC—a portal that provides a description of the safety and security programs, the educational and outreach material available to the public and industry, an overview of enforcement actions and immediate risk reduction measures, a variety of interesting research material, and more (http://tcwwwpreprod/en/transport-canada/corporate/transparency/open-tc.html).
Phases 2 and 3 of the Oversight Transparency Initiative will involve expanding datasets to include more information—for example, the number of oversight personnel (e.g., inspectors and auditors) across the programs. Information that provides further details on oversight actions will also be added to the Open TC portal. This information may include aggregated inspection results, general compliance information, specific enforcement actions and audits reports.