Transportation Safety Board of Canada
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| State level | Government of Canada | ||
| Consist | since March 29, 1990 | ||
| Headquarters | Gatineau , Quebec | ||
| Coordinates | 45 ° 25 '38.8 " N , 75 ° 42' 50.2" W | ||
| Chief Operating Officer / Administrateur en chef des opérations | Jean L. Laporte | ||
| Employee | 209 (as of March 31, 2017) | ||
| Website | www.tsb.gc.ca | ||
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada , short TSB , French Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada , BST , official full name English Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board , French Bureau canadien d'enquête sur les accidents de transport et de la sécurité des transports , is the Canadian government agency responsible for transportation safety in Canada.
It investigates accidents and makes recommendations for three modes of transport ("modes of transport") and one transport system: aviation, railroad, shipping and pipelines. Your recommendations are not binding; Authorities affected by the recommendation are obliged to submit a written statement within 90 days of receipt.
The TSB reports to the President of the Canadian Privy Council and the latter to the Parliament of Canada .
history
The history of government aircraft accident investigations in Canada began in 1960 with the establishment of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Branch .
The TSB was created by the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act , which was passed on March 29, 1990. This law was in response to a number of serious accidents; the Canadian government saw a need for an independent, intermodal investigative agency. The agency's headquarters are at Place du Center in Gatineau in the province of Québec . The TSB is - similar to z. B. the Federal Audit Office in Germany - largely independent of other government organizations.
The first major incident in which the TSB acted was the crash of Swissair Flight 111 on September 2, 1998. A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 crashed into the Atlantic that day after a cable fire, killing all 229 people on board . The TSB filed a report on March 27, 2003, which cost 57 million Canadian dollars to produce .
The TSB has five members in September 2018:
- Kathy Fox
- Joseph Hincke
- Faye Ackermans
- Hélène Gosselin
- Paul Dittmann
Tasks are to conduct independent investigations, for which public hearings can take place in order to learn from incidents ("occurrences") or to recognize cause-effect relationships , to recognize and name safety deficits and deficiencies, to make recommendations on how you can reduce or eliminate these and report publicly on investigations and findings.
The TSB works with other similar agencies such as the US National Transportation Safety Board on investigations.
Others
Before 1990, Canada had the Canadian Aviation Safety Board .
In Germany there is no intermodal authority like the TSB.
Canada is the second largest country in the world ; it has an area of almost 10 million square kilometers, but is only sparsely populated with 3.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Transport and traffic are therefore of great importance for the country. The climate in Canada, with long, cold winters and short, hot summers, places high demands on the means of transport.
The TSB is reported to about 250 flight accidents and 800 flight incidents annually in about four million flight hours in civil aviation .
President
- Benoît Bouchard, 1996-2001
- Camille Thériault, 2001-2002
- Charles H. Simpson, 2002–2005 acting
- Wendy Tadros, 2005–2006 acting, 2006–2014
- Kathy Fox, since 2014
Web links
- Official website (English / French)
- History of Aircraft Accident Investigation in Canada. (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Senior management. Government of Canada, September 28, 2017, accessed February 26, 2018 .
- ^ Population of the Federal Public Service by Department. Government of Canada, Department of Treasury, February 20, 2018, accessed September 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Gasbarro v. Treasury Board (Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board). (No longer available online.) Public Service Labor Relations Board of Canada, August 23, 2007, archived from the original July 5, 2015 ; accessed on January 15, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act. Government of Canada: Law in full.
- ^ The Board. Transportation Safety Board, September 2018, accessed September 3, 2018 .
- ↑ TSB homepage. (English)
