Government Services Committee — Department of Government Services employs approximately 513 employees and it is well balanced gender-wise with 240 males and 273 females. They are scattered throughout thirty-two offices around the Province. The department is comprised of three branches: the Government Services Branch, the Consumer and Commercial Affairs Branch, and the Occupational Health and Safety Branch. We are also responsible or accountable for nine public entities in the Province, including the Government Purchasing Agency and the Credit Union Deposit Guarantee Corporation; both of which report independently to the minister, each prepare independent business plans and annual reports. The Government Services Branch provides a variety of services internally to government and externally to the people of the Province. This is companies through the branch's six divisions: Government Services Centres, Program and Support Services, Motor Registration, Engineering and Inspections, Vital Statistics, and the Office of the Queen's Printer. The Consumer and Commercial Affairs Branch regulate consumer protection and provincial financial services throughout the Province. That branch is comprised of four divisions: Financial Services Regulation, Commercial Registrations, Consumer Affairs, and Pension Benefit Standards Division. The Occupational Health and Safety Branch protects the health and safety of the Province's workforce through the development and enforcement of Occupational Health and Safety legislation, inspection of workplaces, incidents, and the investigations of workplace complaints, serious injuries, and fatalities. Occupational Health and Safety enforcement is a compliance-based program where severe penalties can and have been filed for failure to meet statutory or regulatory obligations regardless of whether the non-compliance resulted in an injury for purposes of insurance considerations by the Workplace Health and Safety Compensation Commission. Occupational