Thank you, Mr. Chair. The issue on the tender of the procurement shared services, one additional thing that we are doing is we are working with the Department of Finance on the procurement modules under the financial system. Those modules have a feature in there that will allow for vendor registration, so all the vendors that we do regular business with, or business that are interested in government contracts or tenders will be able to register through that website and they’ll get automatic notification of upcoming tenders, addendums and other matters related to our procurement. We are looking to see that as a significant improvement in making people aware. Because in addition to posting on the website, as we do now, and putting it in the newspapers, this is an enhanced form of providing notification to vendors. So that’s a new feature that will be available going forward.

On OHS we have quite a bit of activity in the department, and in OHS we are working closely with Human Resources on the work they’re doing, the Department of Human Resources. Also, we’ve done a lot of work internally to ensure that our managers have completed the supervisor training modules through the Northern Safety Association sponsored by WSCC. We have developed a lot of material. In fact, we have developed material that has now been adopted by WSCC and the Safety Association for asbestos management for all of our projects which we do and available to all the contractors and other governments and individuals involved in working with asbestos.

We have done a lot of work for our front-line trades folks on fall protection training and confined space entry training. An area that is emerging for both ourselves and the Department of Health that we have put a lot of effort into, both in the new facilities and the existing health facilities, are managing issues and OHS around infection control in health facilities. We have trained 68 of our staff members

in that area. Our workplace and general purpose office space, we have made sure we have all the standard First Aid training, CPR training that we need.

We’ve also been working closely with the Northern Safety Association to look at how we can improve our relationship on safety with the contractors and the contracting community to make sure that the safety requirements are incorporated into the contracts that we put to work on the government facilities.

We also have our regular joint occupational and health safety committees for each PWS worksite in the department. Thank you, Mr. Chair.