Research publications

A safety management system (SMS) is a formal framework designed to foster a culture of safety within an organization. It sets out individual roles and responsibilities, and accountabilities for safety. It is designed both to increase employees’ awareness of various safety aspects that relate to their daily activities and to establish formal lines of communication within the organization for sharing information about hazards. This paper focuses on federal SMS requirements in the Canadian transportation sector. It first examines how SMS emerged as a new approach to industrial safety, then it gives an overview of Transport Canada’s requirements regarding SMSs in the various federally regulated modes of transportation. Lastly, it discusses some of the problems that continue to arise in SMS implementation.

This HillStudy outlines the roles of internal and external audit, how they differ and how they complement one another, with a focus on the federal public sector. In particular, it examines how internal audit can create value and some of the common challenges the internal audit function faces.