GATINEAU, Que. – Rail safety has been improving, but progress on aviation and fishing safety is moving slowly, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) said in a statement on May 21. The findings are part of the TSB’s annual reassessment of responses to board recommendations. “Recent initiatives to improve railway-crossing safety and the transportation of flammable liquids by rail are encouraging. However, we are concerned that more needs to be done to prevent approach-and-landing accidents and that fishing-vessel safety regulations have yet to be put in force,” said TSB chair Kathy Fox in the statement. While the TSB commended Transport Canada on several rail safety enhancements, the board said progress still needed to be made for physical defences against misinterpreting or not following railway signals. The recommendations can be found at: http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/recommandations-recommendations/.