CHA✔️✔️Canada Health Act; Canada's federal legislation for publicly funded health care
insurance.
Medicare:✔️✔️Canada's health care system; National health insurance program.
Composed of: 13 interlocking provincial and territorial health insurance plans.
*framed by the CHA
TDGA:✔️✔️Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992
Primary purpose of the TDGA is:✔️✔️To endure the safety of everyone affected by the movement
of dangerous goods and the preservation of our environment.
TDGA Schedule: Class 1✔️✔️Explosives, including explosives within the meaning of the
Explosives Act.
TDGA Schedule: Class 2✔️✔️Gases: compressed, deeply refrigerated, liquefied or dissolved
under pressure
TDGA Schedule: Class 3✔️✔️Flammable and combustible liquids
TDGA Schedule: Class 4✔️✔️Flammable solids: Substances liable to spontaneous combustion;
substances that on contact with water emit flammable gases.
TDGA Schedule: Class 5✔️✔️Oxidizing substances; organic peroxides
TDGA Schedule: Class 6✔️✔️Poisonous (toxic) and infectious substances
, TDGA Schedule: Class 7✔️✔️Nuclear substances, within the meaning of the Nuclear Safety and
Control Act, that are radioactive
TDGA Schedule: Class 8✔️✔️Corrosives
TDGA Schedule: Class 9✔️✔️Miscellaneous products, substances or organisms considered by the
Governor in Council to be dangerous to life, health, property or the environment when handled,
offered for transport or transported and prescribed to be included in this class.
CLIA' 88✔️✔️Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988
*Regulation of all facilities that perform patient testing.
CLSI✔️✔️Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
* Non-profit organization formally known as National Committee for Clinical Laboratory
Standards (NCCLS)
CDC✔️✔️Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
CMLTO✔️✔️College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Ontario
*Responsible for the regulation of MLTs
CSMLS✔️✔️Canadian Society of Medical Laboratory Science
*Is also a regulatory body for Technologists and technicians
OSMT✔️✔️Ontario Society of Medical Laboratory Technologists