Consumers are becoming increasingly more concerned about animal welfare and want assurances that animals raised for food are handled in appropriate ways. In 2002 the Canadian Pork Council (CPC) formed an animal care working group to consider this issue and develop an on-farm welfare assessment program. This program will help identify areas on the farm which compromise welfare and will most likely be incorporated into the on-farm food safety program as a HACCP-type approach. The control points are based on measurable components of animal based and environmental and management based parameters. The current on-farm assessment consists of general sections (training, euthanasia, mortalities, etc.), sows and piglets, weaned pigs, and grow-finish pigs. Animal welfare assessments must be based on information from several different sources within a given facility. The records generated through the completion of the on-farm animal welfare assessment should provide the producer with a valuable tool for evaluating animal welfare on the farm.