Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's a privilege to be here before you this morning.
I'll provide a brief background on my role at Air Canada. I've been with Air Canada approaching 27 years. I've had the privilege to serve as the senior director of safety, environment and quality. I've also served within the airline over the course of those years with in-flight operations and in other areas. I've also been fortunate to have sat in on a number of working group sessions and meetings over the years with Transport Canada in the early development and then ongoing promulgation of the rules associated with SMS. So I have the benefit and the luxury of recalling and understanding what the spirit and the intent were during the early regulatory development.
The scope and responsibilities and the accountabilities that I have across our profile speak mostly to the oversight that we have as a department within Air Canada. We're operationally independent, reporting to Mr. Calin Rovinescu, who's our president and CEO, as well as reporting to our board of directors for safety oversight as well as environmental oversight. The operational independence is quite important because it allows us to view independently across the organization the ongoing effectiveness and management not only of our safety management system, but our environmental management system as well as our occupational health and safety management system.
That role is to test monitor the effectiveness of our SMS through the various reporting procedures and address the safety hazards that the organization faces.
I'll also echo David's comments relative to how we're regarded within the industry on an international level. I have the luxury of sitting on various committees across various associations, both at IATA and the Airlines for America, as an associate member. Our safety management system is regarded as one of the most robust and rigorous performance-based systems out there. In fact, some international theatres don't have a regulatory requirement for SMS, so we're often sought out for our expertise.
Outside my professional life, I chair a hospital board in the city of Toronto. I mention that because over the years, given our expertise associated with the implementation of SMS, we're finding that we're crossing the boundaries and assisting other safety-sensitive sectors with how to apply the principles of safety management systems to benefit their organizations and reduce adverse outcomes. It's quite an exciting period of time because others are benefiting from our knowledge and our experience, and they are coming to us for that.
To David's point, our interactions with the inspectors within Transport Canada have evolved. I don't want to say on a regular basis, but quite often during the quarter, it is not uncommon for us to invite inspectors to sit in on our management review process which is quite rigorous. It goes through many layers. They have sat in on our corporate safety board where we report to our CEO. They're invited to participate in those meetings as we look to discover our hazards and report to our management team on our risks and our safety profile.
I will leave my comments at that, and we'll appreciate any questions you might have that are associated with our experience.
Thank you.