Rail transportation safety investigation R16M0026

Mr. Ross joined the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) in Hull, Quebec, as a safety analyst in the Accident Prevention Branch. In April 1996, he joined the Investigations Division as a senior investigator. He worked out of the TSB Head Office for 7 years. During this time, he led a number of major rail investigations and often relieved the national manager of investigations, Rail/Pipeline.

In 2000, he started working in Halifax/Dartmouth as the regional senior investigator, Rail/Pipeline for the Atlantic Region. Mr. Ross holds a Certified Health and Safety Consultant designation and a professional Member designation from the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering, and is the national president of Clan Ross Association of Canada. He began his railway career in 1975 at CN Rail’s maintenance shops in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He became a permanent supervisor in 1979, and thereafter occupied a variety of supervisory and management positions across Canada, including in Sydney, Halifax, Moncton, Montreal, Winnipeg and Prince George, British Columbia. His railway experience includes managing car repair shops, locomotive shops, maintenance shops and a wheel shop. Mr. Ross has also worked in CN district, regional and headquarters offices in positions with responsibilities relating to equipment inspection and maintenance (13 transfers in 6 provinces). He has received extensive training in dangerous goods, and was national coordinator of CN’s emergency response teams for over 3 years. He and his wife Caroline have 3 children and 6 grandchildren.