Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s 2025–26 Departmental Plan: At a glance
A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans, and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.
Key priorities
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s (TSB) sole objective is to advance air, marine, pipeline, and rail transportation safety. The TSB’s top priorities for 2025–26 are as follows:
- conducting independent investigations into selected transportation occurrences to identify the causes and contributing factors and the safety deficiencies evidenced by these occurrences;
- making recommendations to reduce or eliminate any such safety deficiencies and reporting publicly on its investigations; and
- following up with stakeholders to ensure that safety actions are taken to reduce risks and improve safety.
Highlights
In 2025–26, total planned spending (including internal services) for the TSB is $41,123,756, and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 245. For complete information on the TSB’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.
The following provides a summary of the department’s planned achievements for 2025–26 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s the it plans to achieve, and the performance that measure progress toward these results.
Core responsibility 1: Independent safety investigations and communication of risks in the transportation system
Planned spending: $32,899,005
Planned human resources: 193
Departmental results
- Transportation system is safer;
- Regulators and the transportation industry respond to identified safety deficiencies;
- Occurrence investigations are efficient.
The TSB’s departmental results are measured through several departmental results indicators. The targets for these indicators set for 2025–26 are established based on different baselines and differing challenges from one transportation sector to another. Regardless of the transportation sector, the departmental results to achieve remain the same. In 2025–26, the TSB will continue to focus on using a range of communications products to share its results, including investigation reports, Board recommendations and concerns, safety information and advisory letters, and the TSB Watchlist. It will continue to work to present compelling and data-driven facts to convince “agents of change” to take actions in response to identified safety deficiencies.
Note that planned spending and human resources figures reflect only the TSB’s core responsibility of independent safety investigations and communication of risks in the transportation system. It does not include resources dedicated to the TSB’s internal services functions.
More information about Independent safety investigations and communication of risks in the transportation system can be found in the full plan.