During planning, harvesting, and/or silvicultural operations, Tolko Industries Ltd (HLLD) will complete regular audits on operational controls, processes, procedures, and practices consistent with the Companies ISO14001: 2004 compliant Environmental Management System (EMS).
HLLD's EMS also outlines procedures for internal audits which are to be completed annually to ensure that operational planning and practices conform to the SFM requirements as outlined in the CSA Z809-02 certification standard.
To have the Sustainable Forest Management Plan certified to the CSA Z809-02 certification standard, HLLD is required to participate and successfully complete independent third-party audits on the SFM performance requirements. These certification audits are completed by qualified and accredited certifiers and completed in accordance with the CSA Z809-02 standard.
To ensure continued compliance to the SFM performance standards, HLLD also schedules periodic surveillance audits between recertification audits.
HLLD underwent the initial registration audit to the CSA Z809:02 standard on November 23-26 2004 and following surveillance audits in 2005 and 2006 were successful at maintaining this certification during a re-registration audit on January 8-11, 2007. Tolko has continued with certification to the CSA Z809:02 standard through surveillance audits in 2008 and 2009, followed by a successful re-certification audit in January 2010. These audit results are shown under the Forest Certification page on this website and if the public would like to know more please email
or by phoning Jeremy Beal at 780-926-8918.
(NOTE: Ainsworth Engineered Canada LP held certification to the CSA Z809:02 Forestry Standard until 2008 when the certification was allowed to expire following curtailment of Woodland Operations.)
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