Transcript Strategic Plan - Canadian Propane Association

TSSA Update
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Presentation to Canadian Propane
Association Leadership Summit
May 8, 2012
PUBLIC SAFETY FIRST
TSSA Overview
Purpose
To promote and enforce public safety
Vision
To be a valued advocate and recognized
authority in public service
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Areas of Strategic Focus
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• Leverage Risk Knowledge
• Compliance First
• Shared Responsibility for Safety
• Organizational Effectiveness
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Compliance
 We believe strongly that a higher level of
compliance equals to a higher state of
safety. But:
 compliance is binary
 non compliance vary considerably in safety
impact.
 Collecting key data is essential
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Propane
 Objective is to assist in every way possible to
help operators through a fairly complex
process.
 Disproportionate amount of effort and expense
incurred on propane.
 Only jurisdiction where the license is
specifically conditional on receipt of paperwork,
rather than approval of the submittal.
 Supportive of ways to gain efficiencies through
better operational practices, e.g. RIDM
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Solid Incident Response Plan
 Well developed incident response plan.
 Tested regularly internally
 Tested externally every couple of years
 Includes a full “table top” exercise that
includes Ministry touch points.
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What does the future hold?
 Fully exploit the investment in the new IS
system.
 Provide tools to inspectors to perform the
work quicker.
 Centralize the planning and scheduling
function.
 Improve connectivity.
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Discussion and Questions
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