Item - 2026.TTA6.6

The Audit, Finance and 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 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 2025. The review was completed through analysis of the following inputs:

• Trends in 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 2025;
• Audit and investigation findings, including the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA’s) safety peer review; and
• Regulatory oversight, including regulatory agency interactions, and compliance status.

This report includes updates on the TTC’s SH&E Goals and Objectives, which have been updated and restructured to align with the TTC’s Corporate Internal Business Plan’s Safety Objectives and Key Results.

In 2025, the TTC also completed an annual review of the written TTC Safety, Health & Environment (SH&E) Policy and TTC Workplace Violence Policy, as required under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA). There were no recommended changes to the SH&E Policy commitments. Regarding the 2026 Workplace Violence Policy, the following statement was included:

• TTC workers will participate in and review workplace violence risk assessments specific to their job task.

This change reinforces the TTC’s commitment to worker involvement and participation in the workplace risk assessment process, ensuring the policy clearly reflects these principles. The TTC also reviewed and updated its Respect and Dignity Policy, now the Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Policy, which was released February 24, 2026.

The TTC’s Safety and Environment Department engaged with Union executives in December 2025 to discuss updates to the safety policies, programs and the new Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC) feedback portal. The update also included an overview of key actions under the recently approved Community Safety, Security, and Well-being Plan.

This report summarizes the full report of the annual review, which was approved by the SX Committee on April 27, 2026.