Facility Audit Program
On April 1 2009, MTO introduced a revision to the Facility Audit Program. The program is still based on the same requirements in the Highway Traffic Act and the National Safety Code for commercial vehicle operators to maintain all driver and vehicle records within a prescribed time period and make them available to a Facility Auditor when requested.
The goal of the program's revision is to harmonize Ontario's facility audit with Federal inter-jurisdictional requirements and to make it a better and fairer evaluation of industry safety management practices.
What's Changed:
The old facility audit was a "performance based" assessment of the on-road activity of an Operator.
The modernized facility audit is a "risk based" assessment of the elements known to cause or contribute to commercial motor vehicle (CMV) collisions. To reduce the likelihood of commercial motor vehicle collisions, the modernized facility audit examines the operators Safety Management Controls that are in place to ensure drivers are:
- Qualified to drive the operator's equipment
- Conduct the proper inspections of the operator's equipment and report deficiencies whenever they occur
- Are compliant with the driving limitations and rest requirements of the Hours of Service regulation
- These 3 areas (or Profiles) are evaluated in the modernized Facility Audit. The total scores of these three profiles contribute to a carrier's safety rating.
- Each profile represents the percentage of overall compliance that the carrier has achieved.
- Each profile consists of sub-sections weighted according to the level of risk to road safety.
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