KEV,
Like other Canadian standards / laws, the governement takes the "posthumous" approach to enforcement. Meaning, they don't do squat till some one is killed.
Take the explosion in Tobermory a few years ago for example. After that, TSSA, (
www.tssa.org) Technical Standards & Safety Authority, declared that all air stations (private and commercial) had to be inspected, and certified. New stations needed approval before they were built. Does any one know if they actually enforced it? They did have some one call around to the dive shops and inform them of the need for inspection and certification, for a price of course. I believe the deal was: If you passed the cert, you didn't have to pay, if you failed, you get it up the whazzoo.
Here is another question? Has anyone ever had their system inspected by them?
DOT in the USA is similar in enforcement. Even though they claim jurisdiction over high pressure vessels (scuba tanks) They continuously ignore the gross over pressurization of tanks, in cave country. The only time you actually see them doing anything is when they are sifting through the remnants of a dive shop, after an explosion.
What ever came of the Tobermory explosion investigation? Did anyone ever get blamed? fined?