Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the department for being here today.
One of the things I've learned is that when you want to have people take responsibility for doing a job, you give them the guidelines and then tell them, “Please do the job.” To address Mr. Cuzner's issue surrounding the 80 health and safety officers, the fact is that the 80 have reduced the number of incidents by 22.5%. Obviously 80 is enough; they're doing the job and they're professional.
I want to touch first of all on the guidelines and the definition of danger. I understand that the guidelines, which we're changing now as far as a definition is concerned, are more in alignment with the provincial definition. Could you clarify this? I could be wrong about it, but I had some notes on it.
The other thing is that these health and safety officers go through a pretty vigorous training. It's not as if you picked somebody off the street; they are professionals. I wonder whether there was any feedback from those professionals.
This is a little bit of a problem here. I think if we could address it, it would give me more time to do, as you said, the preventative work to ensure that the workplace is not only healthy for the employee but safer.