TSSA

The Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) is a not-for-profit organization that the Government of Ontario has mandated to administer technical safety regulations and provide safety oversight of:

Elevating devices such as elevators and escalators
Amusement devices such as roller coasters and bouncy castles
Ski Lifts such as chair lifts and T-bars
Boilers and pressure vessels including piping
Fuels such as natural gas, propane and liquid fuels – mainly their storage, distribution and utilization
Operating Engineers including attended and unattended plants with pressurized equipment
We’re fortunate to live in a place where we can go about our day knowing the infrastructure around us is extremely safe: the escalator in the shopping mall, the gas pump we fill up at, the systems that heat our schools and hospitals, the ski lifts, the roller coasters. Thanks to the efforts of the many people who supply, service, own, operate and use these complex technologies, we do very well as a province in protecting each other from harm.

But in our view, extremely safe isn’t safe enough and it takes a coordinated effort to get there. As long as there is significant safety concern, we have a job to do: helping to set better standards, partnering with suppliers, owners and operators to equip them to be safe, and assertively addressing situations and enforcing compliance where there is a real risk or evidence of injury.

We all share the goal of a safer Ontario. We can only make that happen if we work together, in a safety partnership from which we all benefit.