Canfor monitors incidents of non-compliance and categorizes them by severity according to the following criteria:
High Significance:
- Has caused serious environmental damage; or
- Will negatively impact public trust at the provincial level or beyond; or
- Will result in $100,000 or more in total costs, including legal costs, fines, or remediation; or
- Will result in a potential loss of certification due to a major non-conformance identified during an external audit.
Medium Significance:
- Has caused moderate environmental damage; or
- Will negatively impact public trust locally; or
- Will result in $15,000 or more in total costs, including legal costs, fines, or remediation.
- Result of a breakdown or failure to comply with multiple operational plans and/or FMS processes or procedures.
Low Significance:
- Has caused minimal environmental damage;
- Will not affect local public trust; and
- Will result in less than $15,000 in total costs, including legal costs, fines, or remediation.
- Result of a breakdown or failure to comply with an operational plan or an FMS process or procedure.
In 2014, in our forestry operations, we recorded to following occurrences of non-compliance
|
Severity
| Number of Incidents |
Incidents per million cubic metres of delivered log volume
|
|
High
| 1 | 0.06 |
|
Medium
| 5 |
0.33
|
|
Low
| 34 |
2.33
|