Becoming a municipal (structural) firefighter in Canada: Ontario's pre-service program and O. Reg. 343/22 certification, the OFAI Candidate Testing Service stages, Alberta's employer-decided NFPA certification, British Columbia's JIBC training route, and the compulsory-versus-voluntary split across provinces. Administrative process only.
Applies in: Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia
This guide covers one thing: how a person becomes a municipal firefighter in Canada, the structural firefighting job performed for a municipal fire department. It is not a guide to wildland firefighting, which hires through provincial wildfire agencies on a seasonal cycle and is covered in the companion guide, and it is not a guide to fire prevention, inspection, investigation, or emergency communications as standalone careers, although Ontario's certification table sets standards for those services and they appear below where the regulation requires them to be distinguished from the firefighter services. Job Bank places firefighters in one national group, Firefighters (NOC 42101), and states the national position in general terms: completion of secondary school is usually required, completion of a college program in fire protection technology, fire science, or a related field and a period of supervised practical training are usually required, firefighting and emergency medical care training courses are provided and vary in length by department, and physical agility, strength, fitness, and vision requirements must be met. There is no national firefighter licence. Each province decides whether certification is compulsory or voluntary, each certifying body runs its own testing, and each department runs its own hiring. Start with the department where the work will happen, and read that department's current posting before enrolling in any program or paying any fee.
This guide gives general process information only and is not legal advice. It states no view on whether any reader qualifies. Where a figure, a check name, or a step was not verified on a linked official page, the guide says so plainly and names the page or posting to confirm it on, rather than filling the gap from a secondary summary.
A municipal firefighter and a wildland firefighter share a job title word and little else in hiring. Municipal work is structural: fire suppression operations from the exterior of a building only, fire suppression operations that enter the interior of a building and can perform rescue, automobile extrication rescue, and operations-level hazardous materials response, in the language of Ontario's certification table. Wildland work is vegetation fire suppression for a wildfire agency, on a seasonal hiring cycle with agency fitness tests and entry courses. A department posting for one route does not answer the other route's requirements, and a course built for one route does not satisfy the other route's certification. Decide which employer will be applied to, municipal department or wildfire agency, before choosing any training, and read the companion wildland guide if the agency route is the goal.
Within municipal departments, the employment pattern also matters. Departments hire career firefighters, and many also have volunteer or composite arrangements in which volunteers serve alongside career staff. Ontario's certification regulation frames its duty on the municipality and the fire department, not on the employment pattern: the municipality must ensure its firefighters perform a listed service only if certified to the corresponding standard, or an exception applies. The Ontario Fire College courses described below are available to members of any Ontario municipal fire department, whether full-time or volunteer, according to the Ontario Fire Marshal page. A volunteer posting is still a department posting, with its own training, availability, and document requirements, and it must be read the same way as a career posting. Do not assume a volunteer route has no certification requirement, and do not assume a career posting accepts volunteer training without checking the posting.
Job Bank's employment requirements for Firefighters (NOC 42101) set the national floor in general terms, and the provincial detail in the steps below overrides the general terms wherever the two differ. Completion of secondary school is usually required. Completion of a college program in fire protection technology, fire science, or a related field and a period of supervised practical training are usually required. Firefighting and emergency medical care training courses are provided and vary in length depending on the requirements of different fire departments or services. Experience as a volunteer firefighter may be an advantage. Physical agility, strength, fitness, and vision requirements must be met. Several years of experience are required for senior firefighters, such as lieutenants and captains.
The certification split is the part of the Job Bank page that most changes the plan by province. Certification for firefighters is compulsory in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and Alberta, but voluntary in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, as Job Bank states it for NOC 42101. Compulsory and voluntary are Job Bank's words for this occupation, and they describe the certification position, not the hiring position: a department in a voluntary province may still require certification or a completed program in its posting, and a department in a compulsory province still runs its own hiring tests on top of certification. Treat the list as the starting map, then verify the province's own regulator page and the department posting. Job Bank's foreign credential recognition note applies nationally in general terms: a newcomer who wants to work in a regulated job must have training, education, or work experience from another country assessed, the steps differ in each province and territory, and the regulatory authority where the work will happen must be contacted. No general conversion rule is stated beyond that note.
Ontario is the province with the fullest official record linked, and its certification law is a service-by-service regulation, not a single firefighter licence. O. Reg. 343/22, Firefighter Certification, under the Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997, sets mandatory minimum certification standards for listed fire protection services. Section 2 requires every municipality, and every fire department in a territory without municipal organization, to ensure that its firefighters perform a listed service only if, on or after the compliance deadline for that service, the firefighter is certified at a minimum to the corresponding standard, or the regulation provides that the standard does not apply. The certification must be provided by the Fire Marshal, or be an International Fire Service Accreditation Congress accreditation or a Pro Board seal recognized by the Fire Marshal as equivalent.
Table 1 is the operative list, and the entry-level services are its first eight items. Item 1, Firefighter Exterior Attack, carries selected job performance requirements from NFPA 1001, 2019 edition, Chapters 4 and 5. Item 5, Firefighter Interior Attack, adds the remaining interior requirements from the same chapters. Items 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 add auto extrication and operations-level hazardous materials response in combination. Item 8, the full service firefighter, requires all job performance requirements of NFPA 1001, 2019 edition, Chapter 5, Firefighter II. The compliance deadline for items 1 through 29, covering the firefighter, team lead, pump operations, prevention, investigation, educator, training officer, emergency communicator, safety officer, and hazardous materials technician services, is July 1, 2026. The technical rescue services in items 30 through 43, from rope rescue through ice water rescue at operations and technician levels under NFPA 1006, 2021 edition, carry a July 1, 2028 deadline. Those deadlines are stated here as the regulation states them; a reader joining after a deadline has passed still needs the certification the table requires for the service, and the department posting states how the department applies it.
Two further features of the regulation prevent common misreadings. First, the exceptions in section 3 are narrow and supervised. A certification standard in item 1 or 2 does not apply to a firefighter who has been a firefighter for no more than 36 months and is operating under the supervision of a firefighter certified to that standard. A standard does not apply to a firefighter temporarily assigned to a different service while operating under a supervisor certified for the service being delivered. A firefighter previously certified under the regulation keeps valid certification even if the requirements for obtaining it are later updated or changed. Second, the regulation's other Table 1 services are not entry shortcuts. Pump operations, fire prevention and inspection, fire investigation, educator, training officer, emergency communicator, safety officer, and hazardous materials technician services each carry their own NFPA standard and deadline, and a certification for one service does not certify the firefighter services. Read the table item for the service that will actually be performed, and confirm the current consolidated text on e-Laws before relying on any deadline or exception.
The Ontario Fire Marshal page describes the training route for a person who is not yet working in a fire service. The Office of the Fire Marshal trains and certifies firefighters to National Fire Protection Association standards, and its Academic Standards and Evaluation unit is responsible for written testing, practical evaluations, and other assessment methods for certification courses. The unit issues certificates with International Fire Service Accreditation Congress seals and National Board on Fire Service Professional Qualifications, Pro Board, applications as appropriate. The Office of the Fire Marshal is the only authority having jurisdiction for issuing Ontario firefighting certification, and it is accredited by the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress and the National Board on Fire Service Professional Qualifications. In Ontario, the Office of the Fire Marshal is the only entity with the authority to test for, and provide students with, NFPA certification.
The pre-service program is defined on that page as four components: NFPA 1001, Firefighter, Level I; NFPA 1001, Firefighter, Level II; NFPA 1072, Hazardous Materials Awareness; and NFPA 1072, Hazardous Materials Operations. The Office of the Fire Marshal provides recognized colleges of applied arts and technology and registered private career colleges with certification examinations and practical skills evaluations for new firefighter candidates. When a candidate successfully completes all training requirements through a recognized pre-service program, the candidate will be eligible to complete the certification examinations and practical skills evaluation. The page lists the colleges and registered career colleges where examinations and skills evaluations are conducted, states that the exact courses offered by each institution may differ, and directs candidates to contact the institution for details. There is other non-accredited firefighter training available in Ontario, but the Ontario Fire Marshal does not recognize that training, as the page states it. Confirm that a program is a recognized pre-service program before enrolling, and confirm the courses, schedule, and tuition with the institution, since no program length or tuition figure is stated on the Ontario page linked.
The examination attempt rule is stated on the same page and must be planned around. Candidates have a maximum of three attempts for each written examination before additional training is required. After the third attempt, candidates are required to complete the full course again before attempting another certification examination, and must work with the program coordinator at their school for the additional training and demonstrate that they have completed it. Pre-service candidates typically test at the private career college or college of applied arts and technology where they studied. Firefighters already working with a fire service may be tested at private career colleges, colleges of applied arts and technology, the Ontario Fire College, regional training centres, or fire departments, where permitted. The Ontario Fire College itself develops and delivers courses for members of Ontario municipal fire services, and its course calendar is released approximately six months before the start of the summer, fall, and winter semesters. College training and department training are different doors into the same certification testing, and the candidate's status, pre-service or already serving, decides which door applies.
Certification and hiring are separate gates in Ontario, and many departments add the Ontario Fire Administration Inc. Candidate Testing Service as the hiring gate. The testing service's own frequently asked questions page, linked, describes the core pathway as Stage One, Stage Two, and Stage Three, with Stage Four, the swim test, as a recruitment-dependent add-on required only when a participating municipal fire service specifies it. Candidates create an account, and certificates are uploaded to the candidate account, typically within three business days, and are not issued by email. Candidates must download and save each valid certificate, because once a certificate expires it may no longer be available for download. The testing service validates certificates with municipalities when requested, generally on a short-list of final interview candidates, although municipal partners can ask at any time whether a candidate holds a current certificate.
Stage One is the Firefighter Aptitude and Character Test, at 75 dollars with HST additional. Candidates do not receive the pass or fail result after the assessment; if successful, the certificate is uploaded to the account within three business days. Stage Two covers three assessments handled differently: the vision assessment, whose cost is set by the candidate's optometrist, the hearing assessment at 50 dollars, and the encapsulated treadmill test at 110 dollars, with HST additional. Vision must meet the requirements in Chapter Six of NFPA 1582, assessed through the official vision form completed by the candidate's doctor or optometrist and uploaded through the candidate account. For most brand new candidates, the first same-day Stage Two bundle is the hearing assessment and the encapsulated treadmill test, while vision is handled separately and is not part of that bundle. Stage Three covers the Firefighter Physical Aptitude Job-Related Tests at 212 dollars and the Firefighter Technical Skills Assessment at 270 dollars, with HST additional. The first Stage Three technical booking requires both sections of the technical skills assessment on the same date, and candidates must leave two or more business days after their Stage One, hearing, and treadmill results are processed before moving to Stage Three. No part of Stage Three can be completed on the same day as any other test for renewals.
Validity periods decide the order and timing of the whole pipeline, because the shortest certificate expires first. Stage One is valid for two years, Stage Two vision for two years, Stage Two hearing for two years, Stage Two encapsulated treadmill for six months, Stage Three physical aptitude tests for one year, Stage Three technical skills for one year with both sections passed, and the swim test for one year, each running from the date the stage was passed. A candidate who clears the treadmill early and then waits will watch it expire while the longer certificates still run. Failed assessments carry a re-test wait of 15 days after a first failure and 30 days after a second and each subsequent failure, applied to each assessment individually. If a candidate is unsuccessful at Stage One and has treadmill or Stage Three assessments booked, those assessments are automatically cancelled and refunded in full. Rescheduling through the candidate portal at least three regular days before the booked assessment carries a non-refundable 25 dollar fee. The testing service does not ask candidates to produce training documentation before registering, and it does not recommend Stage Three without some formalized firefighter training. Confirm the current fees, sequencing, and pre-assessment guides in the candidate account before booking, since the testing service states that candidates must follow the eligibility and sequencing shown there.
Alberta inverts the Ontario picture, and the inversion must be kept explicit. The Alberta firefighter certification page states that the province administers International Fire Service Accreditation Congress and Pro Board accredited testing and certification for municipal and industrial fire rescue services, that employers decide what training and qualifications are needed to ensure the safety and competence of their employees, and that NFPA certification of fire service members is not required by the Alberta government. A reader who carries the Ontario mandatory-certification framing into Alberta will misstate the Alberta position. In Alberta, the department posting states the hiring requirement, and the provincial certification program states how certification, where the employer requires it, is tested and issued.
The province tests and certifies to a listed set of NFPA standards, including 470 Hazardous Materials Awareness, Operations, and Technician, 2022 edition; 1001 Firefighter Levels I and II, 2019 edition; 1002 Driver and Operator, Pump Operator, and Aerial Operator, 2017 edition; 1006 Rope Rescue and Common Passenger Vehicle Rescue Awareness and Operations, 2021 edition; 1021 Fire Officer Levels I and II, 2020 edition; 1030 Fire Inspector, 2024 edition; 1033 Fire Investigator, 2022 edition; 1041 Fire Service Instructor Levels I and II, 2019 edition; and 1140 Wildland Firefighter Level I, 2022 edition. The June 2026 prerequisites document, dated March 19, 2026, sets the general conditions: an application for certification must be received within two years of the completed evaluation, all listed prerequisites require successful completion before application, all lower-level prerequisite certifications must be completed before applying for a higher-level certification, medical qualifications require proof of current certification, credentials obtained outside Alberta must be submitted with the application for review, and required Incident Command System training must be completed where applicable. For NFPA 1001, Level I requires the Level I evaluation, hazardous materials awareness and operations, and current Standard First Aid with CPR Level C, and Level II requires the Level II evaluation, Level I, the same hazardous materials prerequisites, and the same first-aid proof. Students who pass the required assessments and meet all prerequisites can be certified by the Alberta government with International Fire Service Accreditation Congress and Pro Board seals, according to the certification records page. Read the current prerequisites document and the department posting together: the document states what certification requires, and the posting states whether the department requires that certification at application, at hire, or not at all.
British Columbia's verified record for this guide is narrower than Ontario's, and the guide keeps it narrow rather than filling it from secondary summaries of individual departments. No British Columbia government candidate testing page could be verified, and no province-wide testing service is stated. The training institution linked in Sources is the Justice Institute of British Columbia, whose Fire Fighting Technologies program admits candidates through an application form and prerequisites assessment, ranks candidates by score, and fills seats in rank order. Admission requires being a minimum of 18 years of age by the program start date, an official transcript showing completion of Grade 12 English with a minimum grade of C or at least 60 percent, Basic First Aid of a minimum eight-hour course with CPR Level C, proof of physical ability through a specified fitness appraisal or a university fitness assessment measuring strength, speed, power, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, aerobic capacity, body composition, and task-specific hand-eye coordination, and proof of medical clearance including both a physical activity readiness questionnaire and a doctor's note stating fitness to undertake firefighter training. A successful candidate secures a seat with a 500 dollar non-refundable commitment fee applied towards tuition. That fee is the only British Columbia program fee stated in this guide, and no program length or total tuition figure is stated, because the program page linked in Sources states none.
Admission to a training program is not employment, and the distinction decides the next step. The Justice Institute trains, and a municipal department hires. Job Bank lists certification as voluntary in British Columbia for NOC 42101, which means the department posting, not a provincial mandate, states whether NFPA 1001 Levels I and II, a medical licence, a driver's licence class, or a period of experience is required at application or at hire. Confirm the posting for each department, including whether any requirement is relaxed to hire date rather than application date, before treating a training credential as sufficient. A credential earned outside British Columbia must be checked with the hiring department and the certifying body for recognition; this guide states no general recognition rule for British Columbia, because no recognition page could be verified for it.
For Nova Scotia, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, this guide states the regulator check, not a route, because no regulator or training page for those jurisdictions could be verified. Job Bank's list gives the starting point: certification compulsory in Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Manitoba, and voluntary in the remaining provinces and territories named there. Each jurisdiction licenses or regulates fire service work under its own law, and no step, eligibility figure, program, examination, or fee for any of them is stated here. That absence is not a statement that the work is unregulated in any of them, and it is not a statement that an Ontario, Alberta, or British Columbia certification authorizes work there. For each jurisdiction where work is planned, confirm with the provincial or territorial fire service regulator and with the hiring department whether certification is required, which body issues it, what training and testing it requires, and whether a certification from another province is recognized, and obtain the answer before advertising availability or accepting a position there.
Training completed outside Canada follows the same check-first discipline. Job Bank's general note states that a newcomer in a regulated job must have training, education, or work experience from another country assessed, that the steps differ in each province and territory, and that the regulatory authority where the work will happen must be contacted. Alberta's prerequisites document states that credentials obtained outside Alberta must be submitted with the application for review. Ontario's certification regulation recognizes an International Fire Service Accreditation Congress accreditation or Pro Board seal recognized by the Fire Marshal as equivalent to Fire Marshal certification, but recognition is a determination by the Fire Marshal on the credential presented, not a blanket rule this guide can state for any credential. Put the full credential record before the regulator and the hiring department through their processes, and confirm in writing what, if anything, is recognized before enrolling in further training on the assumption that prior training counts.
Related guides: How to Become a Wildland Firefighter in Canada.
The work, the employer, and the hiring route are all different, and the two must not be prepared for as one job. A municipal firefighter, sometimes called a structural firefighter, works for a municipal fire department and performs structural fire suppression, entering or attacking from outside a building, rescue, and hazardous materials response. Ontario's certification regulation describes those services as exterior attack and interior attack, and the full-service firefighter in its table combines interior attack, auto extrication, and operations-level hazardous materials response. A wildland firefighter works for a provincial wildfire agency, Parks Canada, or a contract crew, fighting vegetation fires on a seasonal cycle, with agency fitness tests and entry courses that belong to that system. The companion guide on becoming a wildland firefighter in Canada covers the agency postings, the fitness tests, and the seasonal hiring window. Nothing in this guide describes wildland hiring, and nothing in the wildland guide describes municipal certification or the Ontario testing service. A person who wants both kinds of work prepares for each route separately and reads each employer's posting before enrolling in any course.
Not as a single national rule, and the Ontario wording matters. The Ontario Fire Marshal page says a person interested in becoming a firefighter can complete a pre-service firefighter program, and that completing all training requirements through a recognized program makes the candidate eligible for the certification examinations and practical skills evaluation. That is a route to eligibility, not a statement that every department posting requires it before application. The Ontario Fire Administration Inc. testing service does not ask candidates to produce training documentation before registering, and it states that it does not recommend participating in Stage Three without some formalized firefighter training, because Stage Three tests firefighting skills. In Alberta, the provincial page is explicit that employers decide what training and qualifications are needed, and that NFPA certification is not required by the Alberta government, so the department posting is the requirement. Read the posting for each department applied to, and confirm whether it requires a completed pre-service program, a certification, or only the testing-service certificates at application, before paying for a program.
O. Reg. 343/22, Firefighter Certification, made under the Fire Protection and Prevention Act, 1997, is the current Ontario regulation this guide cites, in its consolidated version from July 1, 2022 to the e-Laws currency date. Do not cite O. Reg. 379/18 for current requirements: it was the earlier firefighter certification regulation, and the current consolidated text is O. Reg. 343/22. Section 2 places the duty on every municipality, and every fire department in a territory without municipal organization, to ensure its firefighters perform a listed fire protection service only if the firefighter is certified to at least the corresponding standard in Table 1, or an exception in the regulation applies. Certification must be provided by the Fire Marshal, or be an International Fire Service Accreditation Congress accreditation or a Pro Board seal recognized by the Fire Marshal as equivalent. Table 1 sets July 1, 2026 as the compliance deadline for the firefighter exterior and interior attack services, auto extrication, hazardous materials response, team lead, pump operations, prevention and inspection, investigation, educator, training officer, emergency communicator, safety officer, and hazardous materials technician services, and July 1, 2028 for the technical rescue services from rope rescue through ice water rescue. Section 3 provides exceptions, including a supervised firefighter of no more than 36 months for the exterior attack and auto extrication standards in items 1 and 2, and a temporarily assigned firefighter operating under a certified supervisor. The transition provision for letters of compliance required the municipality or fire department to provide training records to the Fire Marshal before September 30, 2023, so it is not presented here as an open route for a new applicant.
The core pathway consists of Stage One, Stage Two, and Stage Three, and candidates follow the eligibility and sequencing shown in their candidate account. Stage One is the Firefighter Aptitude and Character Test, at 75 dollars, with HST additional. Stage Two covers the vision assessment, whose cost is set by the candidate's optometrist, the hearing assessment at 50 dollars, and the encapsulated treadmill test at 110 dollars, with HST additional. Stage Three covers the Firefighter Physical Aptitude Job-Related Tests at 212 dollars and the Firefighter Technical Skills Assessment at 270 dollars, with HST additional. For most brand new candidates, the first same-day Stage Two bundle is the hearing assessment and the encapsulated treadmill test, while vision is handled separately through the candidate's optometrist. The first Stage Three technical booking requires both sections of the technical skills assessment on the same date, and candidates must leave two or more business days after their Stage One, hearing, and treadmill results are processed before moving to Stage Three. Certificate validity runs from the date the stage was passed: Stage One two years, Stage Two vision two years, Stage Two hearing two years, Stage Two encapsulated treadmill six months, Stage Three physical aptitude tests one year, Stage Three technical skills one year, and the swim test one year. Stage Four, the swim test, is a recruitment-dependent add-on required only when a participating municipal fire service specifies it, and no swim test fee is stated in this guide because the testing service page linked states none. Failed assessments follow a re-test policy of a 15-day wait after a first failure and a 30-day wait after a second and each subsequent failure. Testing is generally completed at the Fire and Emergency Services Training Institute in Mississauga, and the swim test is held at the Etobicoke Olympium, always using the location shown in the booking confirmation.
They differ on who requires certification, who tests, and what the training route is, so no Ontario step may be carried into either province. In Alberta, the provincial firefighter certification page states that the province administers International Fire Service Accreditation Congress and Pro Board accredited testing and certification for municipal and industrial fire rescue services, that employers decide what training and qualifications are needed, and that NFPA certification of fire service members is not required by the Alberta government. Alberta tests and certifies to NFPA 1001 Firefighter Levels I and II, 2019 edition, among other standards. The June 2026 prerequisites document lists, for NFPA 1001 Level I, the Level I evaluation plus hazardous materials awareness and operations and current Standard First Aid with CPR Level C, and Level II adds the Level II evaluation and Level I, with the general condition that a certification application must be received within two years of the completed evaluation. In British Columbia, this guide states no province-wide candidate testing service, because no British Columbia government testing page could be verified for it. The training route linked in Sources for British Columbia is the Justice Institute of British Columbia Fire Fighting Technologies program, whose admission requirements are being at least 18 by the program start date, a Grade 12 English transcript at a C grade or at least 60 percent, Basic First Aid of at least eight hours with CPR Level C, proof of physical ability, and proof of medical clearance through a physical activity readiness questionnaire and a doctor's note. Admission to that program is not hiring by a department, and the department posting governs the licence, medical, and experience requirements for the job. Job Bank lists certification as voluntary in British Columbia, against compulsory in Alberta.
Several figures that appear in secondary summaries are left out because they conflict across those summaries or were not verified on a linked official page, and each is stated here as a check instead of a carried figure. No pre-service program length, tuition figure, salary figure, or overall time to complete the route is stated, because no program length, tuition, salary, or total timeline was verified on a linked Ontario, Alberta, or British Columbia page, and secondary sources disagree on program length. No driver's licence class for hiring is stated, because neither the Ontario training page nor the testing service page linked states a hiring licence class; the one licence reference verified is inside the certification table itself, where the pump operations driver service concerns a pumper apparatus that requires a class D licence, which is a service standard, not an entry hiring rule. No vision or hearing threshold numbers are stated beyond the testing service's statement that candidates must meet the vision requirements in Chapter Six of NFPA 1582, assessed through the optometrist form, because no threshold figures are stated on a regulator page. No first-aid or emergency medical responder requirement is stated for Ontario entry, because neither linked Ontario page states one, and a department posting may impose one. No Quebec training route, college, or examination is stated, because no Quebec regulator or training page could be verified, although Job Bank lists certification as compulsory in Quebec; confirm the Quebec route with the Quebec regulator or service before enrolling. No requirement is stated for Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, or Nunavut beyond the Job Bank compulsory-or-voluntary list, because no regulator page for those jurisdictions could be verified. Confirm each figure on the department posting and the regulator page named for that step, on the day the step is taken.