A report by Health Canada indicates that for Fitness to Work Evaluation (FTWE) requests made by Transport Canada, the yearly-average processing times by Health Canada’s Workplace Health and Public Safety Programme (WHPSP), Ontario Region, ranged from 42.0 days (approximately 1 ½ months) to 203.5 days (less than 7 months) during the previous five fiscal years (2005/06 to 2009/10). In the majority (57%) of cases during the previous five fiscal years, the FTWE was completed in less than 120 days (4 months).
The yearly average processing times are as follows:
2005/06 – 75.5 days
2006/07 – 117.3 days
2007/08 – 203.5 days
2008/09 – 42.0 days
2009/10 – 109.0 days
Source: Health Canada Access to Information Request A-2010-00056 / ne
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