Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety

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Current this library's internal records: CCOHS 2026-2027 Departmental Plan (2027)

Completeness

• Document shelf: 14 rows (14 archived · 0 staged · 0 pending · 0 missing)
• Backgrounder: on file
• Strategy-evolution brief: on file
• Custody audit: 14 of 14 row(s) audited, all clean
• Last verified: 2026-08-03 · this org has NOT had a full discovery-verification pass (our discovery-verification log)

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Document shelf (14 rows)

Backgrounder

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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety - backgrounder

Backgrounder / 2026-07-30 / registry row: fed-canadian-centre-occupational-health-safety (this library's government-document registry) / lens file for this org's series briefs

Mandate & statutory basis

Established by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. C-13 (https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-13/index.html - link verified, title/citation/section structure confirmed, current to 2026-06-14). Section 2 states the Act's purpose is to "promote the fundamental right of Canadians to a healthy and safe working environment" via a national occupational health and safety research institute whose governing body represents workers, trade unions, employers, governments, the professional community, and the public (statute, full text at https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-13/FullText.html).

Roles, responsibilities & scope

Under section 5, the Centre advances workplace health and mental wellness, facilitates federal/provincial/territorial cooperation with labour and management participation, develops policy to eliminate occupational hazards, and serves as Canada's national repository for occupational health and safety statistics and information (statute, FullText.html). Its stated mandate is "to provide easy access to credible information on occupational health and safety to help workers in Canada be safe at work, and support employers, labour groups and governments in their efforts to create healthy and safe workplaces" (CCOHS 2026-27 Departmental Plan, https://www.ccohs.ca/ccohs/reports/dp/2026-27/dp-full-page.html).

Governance & reporting line

Governed by a tripartite Council of roughly 22 members appointed by the Governor in Council: one Chair, 13 governors (one per province/territory), 4 nominated by worker organizations, and 4 nominated by employer organizations, plus a President as institutional head/CEO (statute, s.7, s.10; 2026-27 Departmental Plan names Anne Tennier, P.Eng., as President and CEO). Section 26 requires the Council to submit an annual report (activities, public submissions, financial statements) to the responsible Minister within four months of fiscal year-end, who must table it in Parliament within ten sitting days and distribute copies to every province and territory (statute, FullText.html). As of the 2026-27 Departmental Plan, the reporting minister is the Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister Responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario (2026-27 Departmental Plan, as above). Registry lists org_type as "agency" with no listed parent (registry row, registry id fed-canadian-centre-occupational-health-safety).

Budget scale

~$15.5M total planned spending for FY2026-27 (110.7 planned FTEs) (CCOHS 2026-27 Departmental Plan, https://www.ccohs.ca/ccohs/reports/dp/2026-27/dp-full-page.html).

Institutional history

Established 1978 under the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Act (now R.S.C., 1985, c. C-13); the Act has been amended since (last amendment 2012-06-29 per the consolidated text), but ⚠️ still being checked - specific renaming/reorganization events beyond the 2012 amendment were not independently confirmed this review (2026-27 Departmental Plan states 1978 year of establishment; statute).

Strategy evolution brief

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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety - strategy evolution

2026-08-01 (rolling continuation) / registry: fed-canadian-centre-occupational-health-safety / grounded in archived copies (cited document id + sha256) / read through our research file for that body

TL;DR: With 13 of 14 registered annual reports successfully extracted (a rare 100% usable-content rate in this batch), the record traces CCOHS from its 2018-2023 "5 Year Strategic Plan" — built around four priority sectors (healthcare, construction, agriculture and fishery, Indigenous enterprises) — to the newer Strategic Plan 2023-2027, whose biggest addition is a reframed headline priority-sector list ("small business," federally regulated organizations, and a new "Workers at Higher Risk" category) that quietly drops the four original named sectors as dedicated subsections. The most concrete recent addition is the CCOHS Business Safety Portal, launched nationally in November 2024 with free access for all Ontario WSIB-registered businesses. The load-bearing number is continuous budget growth — Total expenses actual rose from $11,167,506 (FY2016-17) to $16,454,159 (FY2024-25), roughly 47% over eight years with no year-over-year decline. The open question: the registry classifies CCOHS as an "agency" while every recent annual report self-describes it as "a federal departmental corporation," a discrepancy this record cannot resolve.

Backgrounder summary

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) was established in 1978 by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-13, to "promote the fundamental right of Canadians to a healthy and safe working environment" through a national OH&S research institute. Under section 5, it advances workplace health and mental wellness, facilitates federal/provincial/territorial cooperation, develops hazard-elimination policy, and serves as Canada's national repository of OH&S statistics and information. It is governed by a tripartite Council of roughly 22 members (Chair, 13 provincial/territorial governors, 4 worker-nominated, 4 employer-nominated) plus a President/CEO; the Council must submit an annual report to the responsible Minister within four months of fiscal year-end for tabling in Parliament. The 2026-27 Departmental Plan names Anne Tennier, P.Eng., as President and CEO and lists the reporting minister as the Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister Responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario, with ~$15.5M total planned spending and 110.7 planned FTEs for FY2026-27. Registry lists org_type as "agency" with no parent.

Series inventory

The registry holds 14 rows for this org, all doc_type: annual-report. 13 of the 14 were successfully archived and extracted; the 14th (ar-2014, FY2013-14) has archive_status: missing with flag ⚠️ still being checked — the web archive was unreachable when we looked and was never captured — it is a distinct archiving gap, not part of the "13 registered documents" this brief's extraction-rate claim covers. All 13 extracted .txt files were opened and read directly (not inferred from filenames): none contain the ~804-char publications.gc.ca "Information Archived on the Web" stub, a 404 page, or any other content-free interstitial — a full-text grep for stub/error markers across all 13 files returned zero matches, and financial-statement figures cross-check cleanly year-over-year (each year's prior-year comparative column matches the adjoining document's current-year figure exactly, e.g. Total expenses FY2016-17 $11,167,506 in ar-2018's own prior-year column and again as ar-2019's prior-year column). True usable-content rate: 13 of 13 extracted documents (100%) yielded real, substantive report content. The series runs FY1998-99 and FY2012-13, then continuously FY2014-15 through FY2024-25 (no FY2013-14 document, per the registry gap above); no document type other than "Annual Report of the Council" is registered for this org — no Departmental Plan or Departmental Results Report is present here (see Residuals & gaps).

Priority evolution

FY1998-99 (ar-1999, 127ce4994969): The earliest document in the series shows no formal named "strategic plan" or numbered priorities — the President's message (S. Len Hong) frames the mission simply as helping "everyone in our field attain our collective OH&S goals and objectives," under the Act's 1978 mandate "to promote health and safety in the workplace." The Council of Governors is already tripartite (Chair, labour, employer, provincial/territorial seats). Financials: Total expenditures $6,898,172 (vs. $6,724,454 prior year); Total non-tax revenue $4,239,754; Net cost of operations $2,658,418. Audited by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada (Richard Flageole, Assistant Auditor General).

FY2012-13 (ar-2013, e81b8988e2ec): President and CEO Steve Horvath, one year into his term, frames the year as one of "transformation" toward becoming "more effective as a customer-centric organization." No formal numbered strategic-priorities framework is present. Total expenses: $10,230,279 (planned) / $10,271,966 (actual) vs. $10,759,236 (prior actual). CCOHS spoke at the NAOSH Week national launch in Toronto, Ontario (May 7, 2012).

FY2014-15 and FY2015-16 (ar-2015, 6d4ecf410d82; ar-2016, 59a9a4522826): Still no formal numbered strategic-priorities framework — the FY2014-15 message references "a strategic plan that affirms our guiding principles" without naming discrete priorities. FY2015-16 (ar-2016) is a leadership-transition year: outgoing president Steve Horvath is thanked for "his leadership and contributions to the Centre during his five-year term," and Gareth Jones is named "Acting President." The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) partnership (StressAssess) begins appearing this period.

FY2016-17 (ar-2017, e925bcae0021): Gareth Jones now signs as (non-acting) "President and CEO." No formal strategic-priorities framework yet; "strategy" language remains generic. Total expenses actual $11,167,506 (per ar-2018's prior-year comparative).

FY2017-18 (ar-2018, 28d7809c78ee): Anne Tennier signs as "President and CEO" for the first time in the series — a second leadership change within three years. The year's "overall focus and strategy" is described narratively (forefront of health and safety, growth, geographic coverage) without a named/numbered plan; identified "high risk sectors" are listed as "construction, transportation, mining, and healthcare" — a sector list that does not match the four sectors formalized the following year. Total expenses actual $11,472,743 (vs. $11,167,506 prior).

FY2018-19 (ar-2019, 12dddbef54f5): The Council/President message states "we were pleased in 2018 to launch our new strategic plan" — the first appearance in this series of a formally named, numbered strategic-planning framework: the "5 Year Strategic Plan" (2018-2023), built on three Key Strategic Priorities — "developing national leadership on emerging issues," "addressing priority sectors," and "building a national repository of current knowledge, standards, statistics, and other information tools." Four named priority sectors are set out for the plan's duration: healthcare, construction, agriculture and fishery, and Indigenous enterprises. Current health-and-safety issues named alongside the sectors: workplace mental health, impairment, harassment and violence, and occupational disease. Total expenses: $11,340,211 (planned) / $11,771,209 (actual) vs. $11,472,743 (prior actual).

FY2019-20 (ar-2020, 85e87ef4247a): The "Five Year Strategic Plan 2018-2023" and its three Key Strategic Priorities continue unchanged, restated with an infographic. A planned XXII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, to be co-hosted with the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto, Ontario, October 4-7, 2020, is disclosed as "postponed to September 19-22, 2021" due to COVID-19 (footnote, at time of report production). Total expenses actual $12,201,850 (vs. $11,771,209 prior).

FY2020-21 (ar-2021, 5774c53c4306): Same three Key Strategic Priorities carried through "into the third year of the five year strategic plan." The Work Place Harassment and Violence Prevention Regulations came into force January 1, 2021; CCOHS begins hosting a "Roster of Investigators" and develops three supporting online courses this year — a new mandate-adjacent deliverable not present in earlier documents. The financial notes disclose a new Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) agreement (total $1.5M over two years, $1.015M recognized this year) for COVID-19 workplace guidance content, plus a separate "Business Resumption Funding" agreement ($2.5M over two years, ~$1.28M recognized this year) for personnel/operating costs. Total expenses: $12,365,191 (planned) / $13,177,926 (actual) vs. $12,201,850 (prior actual).

FY2021-22 (ar-2022, 62e28e3de635): "Completing the fourth year of its five-year strategic plan," the same three Key Strategic Priorities are restated. The postponed World Congress is delivered as "the first ever virtual XXII World Congress" (September 2021, with the Institute for Work and Health) rather than in person in Toronto. Remaining PHAC ($0.485M) and Business Resumption Funding ($1.22M) amounts are recognized this year. Total expenses actual $14,590,070 (vs. $13,177,926 prior).

FY2022-23 (ar-2023, e5c4c9d98904): The Council/President message states explicitly: "this year we retired our strategic plan and mapped out a new four-year strategy to take us into 2027," developed via stakeholder/staff surveys and interviews and synthesized into the new "CCOHS Strategic Plan 2023-2027." Named priorities for the new plan include "service excellence and commitment to our staff." The document's own title format also reverts this year from "CCOHS Annual Report" (used ar-2013 through ar-2022) back to the 1999-era "Annual Report of the Council." Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) survey questions are added to user-experience surveys for the first time in the series this year. Total expenses actual $15,081,735 (vs. $14,590,070 prior).

FY2023-24 (ar-2024, 1516d9fd7ac9): The Strategic Plan 2023-2027 is now in force ("guided by our new strategic plan"). The named priority-sector framing changes materially from the retired plan: priority sectors are now "small business" and federal government agencies/public administration, and a new "Workers at Higher Risk" category (new and young workers, international guest workers) replaces the former healthcare/construction/agriculture-and-fishery/Indigenous-enterprises sector list as the headline framing (though construction- and agriculture-related content continues to appear as embedded topic examples, not as named priority-sector headers). CCOHS reports completing its first-ever Sustainable Development Strategy, the "2023 to 2027 Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy," tabled October 2023 under the Federal Sustainable Development Act. The reporting minister is named as "the Honourable Seamus O'Regan Jr., Minister of Labour and Seniors" — a title distinct from the plain "Minister of Labour" used through ar-2022. Total expenses actual $15,987,005 (vs. $15,081,735 prior).

FY2024-25 (ar-2025, 6edf16473aa6): The Strategic Plan 2023-2027 continues, with priority sectors restated as small and medium-sized businesses, federally regulated organizations, and workers at higher risk (now described as "young, new, aging, gig, and guest (temporary international) workers"). The CCOHS Business Safety Portal launches nationally in November 2024, with a new partnership giving all Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB)-registered businesses free access. The 2023-2024 Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy Report is published, with the plan itself "updated in January 2025 to more accurately align targets with departmental capacity." The reporting minister/department line changes again, to "the Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario" — matching the backgrounder's 2026-27 Departmental Plan citation and confirming this rename had already taken effect within the fiscal year this document covers. Total expenses actual $16,454,159 (vs. $15,987,005 prior) — the highest in the series.

Priorities added, dropped, renamed

• Added — "5 Year Strategic Plan" (2018-2023) and its three Key Strategic Priorities: absent through ar-2018 (28d7809c78ee, which used only generic "strategy" language and an unformalized sector list of construction/transportation/mining/healthcare); first formally named in ar-2019 (12dddbef54f5) as "developing national leadership on emerging issues," "addressing priority sectors," and "building a national repository."
• Added — four named priority sectors (healthcare, construction, agriculture and fishery, Indigenous enterprises): introduced alongside the 2018-2023 plan in ar-2019 (12dddbef54f5); restated with dedicated subsections in ar-2020 (85e87ef4247a) through ar-2023 (e5c4c9d98904).
• Added — Work Place Harassment and Violence Prevention Regulations compliance role (Roster of Investigators + 3 online courses): first reported ar-2021 (5774c53c4306), tied to the regulation's January 1, 2021 in-force date.
• Added — Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) in survey methodology: first appears ar-2023 (e5c4c9d98904).
• Added — Strategic Plan 2023-2027: replaces the retired 2018-2023 plan, per ar-2023 (e5c4c9d98904) — "this year we retired our strategic plan and mapped out a new four-year strategy to take us into 2027."
• Added — "Small and Medium-Sized Businesses," "Federally Regulated Organizations / Federal Government Agencies," and "Workers at Higher Risk" as the new headline priority-sector categories: first appear as dedicated subsections in ar-2024 (1516d9fd7ac9), continued in ar-2025 (6edf16473aa6).
• Added — first-ever Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy (2023-2027, tabled October 2023): reported ar-2024 (1516d9fd7ac9); progress update reported ar-2025 (6edf16473aa6).
• Added — CCOHS Business Safety Portal + Ontario WSIB partnership: launched nationally November 2024, per ar-2025 (6edf16473aa6).
• Dropped — "Healthcare," "Construction," "Agriculture and Fishing," and "Indigenous Enterprises" as dedicated, headline priority-sector subsections: present as named subsections in every document from ar-2019 (12dddbef54f5) through ar-2023 (e5c4c9d98904); absent as headline categories starting ar-2024 (1516d9fd7ac9), though some underlying topics (e.g., construction, agriculture-linked hazards) continue to appear as embedded examples rather than named priority sectors.
• Dropped/retired — the 2018-2023 "5 Year Strategic Plan" and its three Key Strategic Priorities: explicitly retired per ar-2023 (e5c4c9d98904), after being restated unchanged in ar-2020 (85e87ef4247a), ar-2021 (5774c53c4306), and ar-2022 (62e28e3de635).
• Renamed — reporting-minister title: "Minister of Labour" (ar-2013 e81b8988e2ec through ar-2022 62e28e3de635, with the Honourable MaryAnn Mihychuk named as "Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour" in ar-2016) → "Minister of Labour and Seniors" (Honourable Seamus O'Regan Jr.; ar-2023 e5c4c9d98904, ar-2024 1516d9fd7ac9) → "Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario" (ar-2025 6edf16473aa6) — a machinery-of-government/department-naming change, not a CCOHS-specific mandate change.
• Renamed — document title format: "CCOHS Annual Report" (ar-2013 e81b8988e2ec through ar-2022 62e28e3de635) reverts to "CCOHS Annual Report of the Council" (ar-2023 e5c4c9d98904 onward, matching the original ar-1999 127ce4994969 title convention "Annual Report of the Council").

Budget & mandate inflection points

• 1978 — CCOHS established by Act of Parliament (recited in ar-1999, 127ce4994969, President's message).
• FY2015-16 — Treasury Board Secretariat facilitates a change in CCOHS's funding structure, granting unrestricted authority under section 6(1)(g) of the CCOHS Act to spend revenue from product/service fees across fiscal years (recited retrospectively in the Respendable/Reinvestment Authorities note of ar-2020 85e87ef4247a through ar-2025 6edf16473aa6).
• FY2015-16 — leadership transition: Steve Horvath departs after a five-year term as President and CEO; Gareth Jones becomes Acting President (ar-2016, 59a9a4522826).
• FY2016-17→FY2017-18 — second leadership transition: Gareth Jones (confirmed, non-acting, President and CEO in ar-2017 e925bcae0021) is succeeded by Anne Tennier, who signs as President and CEO from ar-2018 (28d7809c78ee) through the end of the archived series (ar-2025, 6edf16473aa6).
• January 1, 2021 — Work Place Harassment and Violence Prevention Regulations come into force; CCOHS begins hosting a Roster of Investigators and delivering three related online courses the same fiscal year (ar-2021, 5774c53c4306).
• FY2020-21 to FY2021-22 — two COVID-19-linked funding agreements disclosed in financial-statement notes: a $1.5M/two-year PHAC agreement for COVID-19 workplace guidance, and a $2.5M/two-year "Business Resumption Funding" agreement for personnel and operating costs (ar-2021, 5774c53c4306; ar-2022, 62e28e3de635).
• FY2022-23 — 2018-2023 Strategic Plan retired; Strategic Plan 2023-2027 adopted following stakeholder/staff consultation (ar-2023, e5c4c9d98904).
• October 2023 — first-ever Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy (2023-2027) tabled under the Federal Sustainable Development Act (ar-2024, 1516d9fd7ac9).
• November 2024 — CCOHS Business Safety Portal launches nationally, with an Ontario WSIB partnership providing free access to WSIB-registered businesses (ar-2025, 6edf16473aa6).
• FY2024-25 — reporting-minister/department line renamed to "Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario" (ar-2025, 6edf16473aa6), matching the current title cited in the backgrounder's 2026-27 Departmental Plan reference — a department rename, not a CCOHS mandate change.
• Continuous budget growth, FY2016-17 through FY2024-25 — Total expenses (actual) rose from $11,167,506 to $16,454,159 across the archived series' overlapping-year chain (ar-2018 28d7809c78ee through ar-2025 6edf16473aa6), a roughly 47% increase over eight fiscal years, with no year-over-year decline recorded in any of the cross-validated figures.

Ontario/Toronto relevance

CCOHS's sole disclosed physical address across every document in the series that states one (ar-1999 127ce4994969 through ar-2025 6edf16473aa6) is Hamilton, Ontario — not Toronto. Hamilton is roughly 70 km from Toronto and is never described in the text as part of a "Greater Toronto Area" designation; no Toronto office, facility, or physical presence is disclosed anywhere in the series. Toronto-specific mentions that do appear are incidental rather than programmatic: an on-site training delivered for the "Ministry of Labour (Toronto)" (ar-1999, 127ce4994969); the NAOSH Week national launch, at which President Steve Horvath spoke, held in Toronto, Ontario in May 2012 (ar-2013, e81b8988e2ec); University of Toronto researchers and students appearing as podcast guests and scholarship winners (ar-2018 28d7809c78ee, ar-2023 e5c4c9d98904); and generic press citations (Toronto Star, Toronto Sun) among dozens of media outlets listed in annual media-coverage tallies (ar-2016 59a9a4522826, ar-2017 e925bcae0021, ar-2019 12dddbef54f5, ar-2020 85e87ef4247a). A concrete Toronto-hosted event — the XXII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, planned for October 2020 in Toronto with the Institute for Work and Health — was first postponed due to COVID-19 (ar-2020, 85e87ef4247a) and then delivered as a virtual event in September 2021 rather than in person (ar-2022, 62e28e3de635); no in-person Toronto event materialized within the archived series.

Ontario's relevance to CCOHS is real but is a province-wide usage/partnership pattern, not a Toronto-specific one: Ontario is consistently the top or near-top province across nearly every usage metric disclosed in every year that reports one — website visits, e-course enrolments, and Safety InfoLine inquiries — from ar-2013 (e81b8988e2ec, "Ontario 47%") through ar-2025 (6edf16473aa6, "Ontario 44%" on the English site). CCOHS maintains a recurring, multi-year partnership with the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) — StressAssess, Prevent Occupational Disease, Ontario Occupational Disease Statistics, and the Silica Control Tool — appearing in ar-2015 (6d4ecf410d82) through ar-2025 (6edf16473aa6). It also maintains a recurring web/app partnership with the Infrastructure Health and Safety Association (IHSA), an Ontario construction-safety body, from at least ar-2017 (e925bcae0021) through ar-2024 (1516d9fd7ac9). The most recent and most formal Ontario tie in the series is the November 2024 partnership with Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), giving WSIB-registered businesses free access to the new Business Safety Portal (ar-2025, 6edf16473aa6). None of these — usage share, OHCOW, IHSA, or WSIB — are described in the text as Toronto-specific; the text does not state where WSIB, OHCOW, or IHSA are headquartered, so no Toronto-specific claim should be inferred from them.

Residuals & gaps

• ar-2014 (FY2013-14) is a registry row, not an extracted document. archive_status: missing, flagged ⚠️ still being checked — the web archive was unreachable when we looked in this library's government-document registry. It is excluded from this brief's "13 of 13 extracted" usable-rate claim because it was never archived in the first place — a distinct failure mode from the "status ok but stub" pattern the task brief warned about, since here the registry's own archive_status field already flags the gap rather than masking it.
• True extraction/usable-content rate: 13 of 13 extracted documents (100%) yielded real, substantive report content on direct reading — no stub, 404, or interstitial pages were found in this series, unlike some other orgs in this project.
• ar-2013 carries a ⚠️ Still being checked: pattern-inferred flag in the registry, meaning its URL was inferred by pattern rather than confirmed via crawl. The extracted content matches the expected title ("CCOHS Annual Report 2012-2013") and year, so the inferred URL appears correct, but this brief cannot independently confirm the URL was reachable through an indexed/crawled path rather than a guessed one.
• Multi-decade documentary gap: only FY1998-99 survives from before FY2012-13; no annual reports for FY1999-2000 through FY2011-12 (12 fiscal years) are registered at all. This is an archiving gap in the registry, not an extraction failure, since no rows exist for those years to fail. A second, single-year gap exists at FY2013-14 (ar-2014, above).
• No Departmental Plan or Departmental Results Report is registered for this org at all — every one of the 14 registry rows is doc_type: annual-report. The backgrounder's $15.5M / 110.7-planned-FTE figure is sourced to "the 2026-27 Departmental Plan," a document type entirely absent from this archived series, so it cannot be cross-checked against anything read here. The closest comparator available from the archived series is ar-2025's (6edf16473aa6) actual Total Expenses of $16,454,159 for FY2024-25 — a different fiscal year, a different planned-vs-actual basis, and possibly a different accounting scope, so no reconciliation should be inferred from the similarity or difference in magnitude.
• FTE counts are never disclosed in any of the 13 Annual Reports read. The backgrounder's 110.7 planned-FTE figure (from the Departmental Plan) is entirely unverifiable from this archived series, which discusses staff and Council members narratively but reports no headcount or FTE table.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: the registry's org_type field lists "agency," while every Annual Report from at least ar-2020 (85e87ef4247a) onward self-describes CCOHS as "a federal departmental corporation." This may be a difference in classification granularity (departmental corporation is a specific Financial Administration Act Schedule II sub-type, and "agency" may be a broader registry bucket) rather than a factual conflict, but it is not resolved by anything read in this series.
• ⚠️ Still being checked: the exact date(s) the Council of Governors grew from the smaller roster explicitly named in ar-1999 (127ce4994969) — roughly 16 named seats across chair/labour/employer/provincial-territorial categories — to the ~22-member structure described in the current backgrounder. No document in this series states a numeric target or transition date for Council size; only individual appointments/departures are reported year to year.