Transport committee  Mainly.

Transport committee  This is something that is part of an oversight system, but I think it's fair to say that in general the companies want to maintain their safety record. They have business losses and people losses and certainly reputation losses if they have even minor accidents, so this is someth

Transport committee  That's the maximum, but depending on the environment and other risk factors, it could well be done on a much more frequent basis. For example, if there has been a significant change in operation of any railway company, it must do another risk assessment. In such a case, Transport

Transport committee  I'm not sure I understand.

Transport committee  These 33,400 inspections—

Transport committee  Perhaps I can give a summary of that, and there might be more detailed questions. In general, as with any regulatory requirement, under the safety management system regulations the companies are obliged to follow the regulations and to put in place systems that allow them to mee

Transport committee  If I may clarify, in terms of the safety management systems regulations requirements, the railways must do risk assessments on various types of operations, with a major change in operation. Those risk assessments are done by the railway company and are held by them. They are ava

Transport committee  As to what we do in terms of the inspections, we do a risk-based system, but part of the response to the Transportation Safety Board recommendations in terms of doing the audits was to go to full audits on a more cyclical basis. We're looking at between three to five years, dep

Transport committee  It's a mix of inspections and audit evaluations, if you will, of safety management systems. There are inspections against the safety management system regulations, and those go happen on a regular basis, and there's a fairly substantial number per year as part of those 33,400 tot

Transport committee  I believe that some changes to the specific requirements of the key trains and routes risk assessments did come out of some of that conversation and some of the analysis, for example, to be a little clearer about definitions.

Transport committee  The assessments were done case by case, so each of those assessments were provided individually. They are fairly long and complex technical documents over very long routes in some cases, so they are quite bulky. The assessment was done in terms of each of those different ones, so

Transport committee  Perhaps I may initially slightly clarify my comments from earlier. Transport Canada is always open to calls from employees at railway stations or from the general public, for that matter, and does act on those. In addition to that, there is a confidential formal reporting system

Transport committee  Yes. I'm pleased to say that the risk assessments were all received and they were fully reviewed by our rail safety teams. That was completed during the time schedule planned, and we were able to look at that and consider whether any further actions were needed.

Transport committee  If I may, I have a general comment in terms of the requirements for addressing fatigue as well as the safety management system regulations that are in place. We do have work-rest rules that are in place, on top of the rules that are in place that are enforced and overseen by Tran

Transport committee  I think we just did a quick review of those in terms of the way that the question was raised, and I think that all of the other recommendations have been addressed. That recommendation is being addressed as well.