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Planning, Reporting and Accountability Structure Planning, Reporting and Accountability Structure -- TSBSection I: IntroductionChairman's Overview The Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board, usually known by its applied title of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), was established as an independent Departmental Corporation in March 1990. The agency is concerned with the analysis of safety failures in the federally regulated elements of the marine, rail, commodity pipeline, and air transportation systems. Creation of the TSB eliminated the conflict of interest that existed when government bodies regulated or operated transportation activities and also investigated the failures associated with their own regulations and operations. The TSB is comprised of up to five Board Members which includes the Chairperson. The Board Members are Governor- in- Council appointees and their functions and duties are enunciated in the enabling legislation. The distinction between the duties of staff and Board Members is also stated in the Act. The TSB has one business line, the advancement of transportation safety, and two service lines, Investigations and Corporate Services. This framework comprises the TSB's strategic objectives, key results and measurement strategies. It takes into account the requirement to maintain its independence from the regulators and the industry while meeting its obligation to assume accountability for its voted funds. The continued refinement of the Board's Occurrence Classification Policy will be key to achieve productivity gains to enhance the quality and timeliness of investigations and the identification of safety deficiencies. Benoît Bouchard Section II: Departmental OverviewMandate Under its legislation, the TSB's only object is the advancement of transportation safety. The end purpose of the Board's investigations is accident prevention. The Board seeks to identify safety deficiencies shown by transportation occurrences and to make recommendations designed to eliminate or reduce those safety deficiencies. The TSB has the exclusive authority to make findings as to causes and contributing factors when it investigates a transportation occurrence. In addition to investigations and, if necessary, public inquiries into individual occurrences, the Board may conduct studies of matters compromising transportation safety. Mission and Strategic Objectives The object of the Board is to advance transportation safety. It does this by :
Section III: Business LineAs noted in section one, the TSB has one business line which is the advancement of transportation safety and two service lines, Investigations and Corporate Services. Objective The objective is to advance transportation safety by conducting independent investigations of transportation occurrences, by identifying safety deficiencies and by reporting publicly on its findings and recommendations. The Board bases it decision to investigate on its Occurrence Classification Policy. With over 4,000 occurrences reported each year, the Board's prime criterion for deciding to investigate is whether or not an investigation is likely to lead to a reduction in risk to persons, property or the environment Description The TSB provides services to Canadians in general and to various identifiable groups such as manufacturers, owners, operators and regulators within the transportation system through the following service lines: Investigations and Corporate Services 1. Investigations Conducts independent investigations into transportation occurrences involving ship, railway, commodity pipeline and aircraft operations and reports publicly on its findings and any safety deficiencies that it has identified including recommendations based on its findings. 2. Corporate Services Provides the TSB with support in the areas of human resources, finance, administration, informatics, policy and planning and secretariat services to the Board. Key Results The TSB is one of many organizations who have safety of the transportation system as an objective. It is the only one however whose sole purpose is the advancement of transportation safety. The key result is the elimination of identified safety deficiencies. Concomitant to this, is the ability for any person or organization to have readily available access to pertinent safety information so that they can also contribute to the attainment of the first result. Another outcome would be that risk to persons, property or the environment would be reduced through the use by governments and industry of independent, credible and timely investigations findings. The Canadian public is confident that transportation accidents are being investigated by an independent, credible agency. Finally in its own internal management processes, the TSB must ensure that standards for internal service levels are established and measured. How the TSB will measure its performance in the attainment of these results is still in development and will continuously have to be revised over the years as it gains experience with the tools available. Some of the elements of the strategy would be:
Given that the TSB is small agency with only one business line the Chairperson is accountable for the delivery of the key results although other executives will be held accountable for results of the service lines. Linkages Between Business Line/ Service Lines and Key Results
AppendixResources Allocated to Business Line 1997-98 Budget $ (000)
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