Item - 2025.TTA2.5

The TTC Audit & Risk Management Committee:

1. Reaffirmed support for the approach to continuously improving the effectiveness of the TTC’s Safety, Health & Environment Management System, identifying priority safety, health, and environment issues, and developing the TTC’s safety, health, and environment goals and objectives, as described in this report.

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) continues to manage and mitigate occupational health and safety, operational safety as well as environmental risks due to its operations, activities, and services in a systematic manner through the implementation and maintenance of its Safety, Health & Environment (SH&E) Management System.

A SH&E Management System is a comprehensive and proactive approach to managing SH&E risk. The system goes beyond a simple sum of individual or isolated safety and environmental management programs and activities, such as investigation, inspection, or training. It is designed to improve SH&E performance and reduce risk by integrating all its processes into a continuous improvement cycle of Plan, Do, Check, and Act.

A review of the TTC’s SH&E Management System is conducted by the TTC’s internal Safety, Security, and Environment Executive (SX) Committee on an annual basis. The purpose of the review is to evaluate the suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness of the SH&E Management System, ensuring the ongoing management of SH&E risk.

The current review assessed the TTC’s SH&E performance in 2024. The review was completed through analysis of the following inputs:

• Key Performance Indicators related to occupational health and safety, customer and public safety, operational safety, security, fire and life safety, and capital projects safety;
• Status of key SH&E projects and initiatives, highlighting significant developments in 2024;
• Audit and investigation findings, including the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA’s) safety peer review conducted by a team of transit professionals; and
• Regulatory oversight, including legislative changes, regulatory agency interactions, and compliance status.

This report also includes updates on the TTC’s corporate-level SH&E goals and objectives for 2024 to 2028. The goals and objectives have been updated and restructured to better support the continuous improvement of the SH&E Management System.

The TTC also completed an annual review of the TTC Safety, Health, and Environment Policy and TTC Workplace Violence Policy, as required under the Ontario Occupational Health & Safety Act (OHSA). No changes were made to the policies as a result of this review. The TTC also reviewed and updated its Respect and Dignity Policy, effective March 31, 2025.

The TTC’s Safety and Environment Department engaged with Union executives in December 2024 to discuss opportunities to strengthen communication regarding safety policy and program development. In 2025, additional information was shared with Union executives, including an update on the annual review process.

This report summarizes the full report of the annual review, which was approved by the SX Committee on April 17, 2025.