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Transportation Safety & Regulation
Transportation Safety and Regulation Branch (TSR) is responsible for
the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of minimum
safety standards Federally and Provincially for commercial vehicles,
drivers and motor carriers at the corporate level. Additionally, TSR is
responsible for safety compliance monitoring and enforcement issues
respecting short line Intra-Provincial Railways.
Transportation Safety and Regulation Branch (TSR) establishes and
provides a comprehensive safety program for monitoring and regulating
the performance of motor carriers, drivers, and commercial vehicles.
TSR's mandate under the National Safety Code includes evaluation of
carrier safety programs and determination of carrier safety ratings and
enforcement of the Commercial Drivers Hours of Service Regulation. The
scope of the program includes all operations where trucks have a
registered gross weight of 4,500 kilograms or more and where busses have
a seating capacity of 10 passengers or more. A Safety Fitness test is
administered upon entry to the industry on for-hire carriers. Motor
Carrier liability and cargo insurance is tracked by TSR. The Branch
administers the National Safety Code with nine (9) Transportation Safety
Investigators with peace officer status, Federal Hours of Service
Inspectors and CVSA accreditation, which are mandated to enforce federal
and provincial motor carrier legislation. Carrier safety performance at
the corporate level is monitored through a comprehensive Carrier Profile
System (CPS) and delivery of Motor Carrier Safety Ratings (C-SNAP)
maintained by TSR under the requirements of the National Safety Code.
TSR is responsible for the initial safety assessment and on-going safety
compliance monitoring for Short Line Intra-Provincial railways.
The TSR Branch provides the following services:
- Establishes and provides a comprehensive safety program for
monitoring and regulating the performance of motor carriers, drivers
and vehicles. Includes all operations where trucks have a registered
gross weight of 4,500 kilograms or more and where buses have a
seating capacity of 10 passengers or more.
- Establishes and provides a comprehensive safety program for
monitoring and regulating the performance of Short Line
Intra-Provincial Railways.
- Administers a Safety Fitness test upon entry to the industry by
for-hire carriers and railways.
- Delivers a Facility Audit program that conducts for-cause on-site
audits of carrier records and inspections of carrier vehicles.
Carriers and rail operators are rated for safety performance
according to established standards.
- Maintains insurance records for public liability and property
damage and cargo for all for-hire carriers operating in Manitoba.
- Maintains a carrier profile data warehouse (CPS) containing
information on certification, driver and carrier convictions,
facility audit information, accident information, and vehicle
inspection information.
- Maintains a public access enquiry snapshot database for Manitoba
Based Motor Carrier regulatory compliance levels C-SNAP.
- Maintains and delivers regulatory education presentations and
public access tools through the Commercial Operator Regulatory
Education Program (CORE Pac).
- Responsible to conduct "Wheel Off" investigations.
- Directs and implements the National Safety Code, comprising 16
safety-related standards adopted by all Canadian jurisdictions
ensuring that drivers and vehicles are licensed, tested (inspected),
monitored and, when appropriate, sanctioned in a uniform manner from
jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
- Initiates and directs prosecutions of motor carriers and shortline
intra-provincial railways using an administrative sanctioning
process.
- Initiates and directs investigations relating to intra-provincial
shortline derailment occurrences
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