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Department in achieving its diverse missions. This will require workplaces free of recognized hazards so personnel can conduct their work safely in a variety of environments and the Department can provide its visitors and partners a safe experience. Identifying and controlling exposures to occupational safety and health hazards are an essential part of everyone’s duties in the Department. Doing so will enhance the Department’s safety culture and ensure that it remains an employer of choice.

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Enhance the Role of Leadership in Promoting a Culture of Safety

Knowledge of responsibilities and actions necessary to control exposures to hazards are an essential part of everyone’s responsibility in the Department. Ensuring that Department managers, supervisors, and employees have the knowledge, skills, resources, and commitment to control hazards in the workplace will strengthen Department efforts to protect its employees, contractors, visitors, and others who enter its workplaces.

The Department must ensure that the executives and managers responsible for safety programs in their bureaus/organizations actively participate in safety activities, such as the Department’s Safety and Health Council meetings; determine and maintain appropriate safety and occupational health staffing levels; provide resources and support to their safety staff by giving them time and resources to implement safety program components; attend safety meetings; participate in training; and conduct inspections. The Department must achieve this strategy by providing awareness training to the Department’s Safety and Health Council members and their respective safety managers/coordinators. Continuously Improve the Department’s Safety and Health Program

The Department plans to reestablish and update DAO 209-4, Occupational Safety and Health Program, which prescribes policy and responsibilities for implementing the Occupational Safety and Health Program of the Department.

The Department intends to conduct a gap analysis and prepare a written strategy to update and continuously improve the Department’s Safety and Health Program Manual, so that it is a comprehensive policy document to guide the bureaus/organizations’ occupational safety and health programs. Decisions by the bureaus/organizations to integrate safety into their management programs influence the Department work environment and contribute to creating a productive and safe workplace.

The Department must measure this strategy by completing the gap analysis of the Safety and Health Program Manual and developing an improvement strategy.

k e Y C h a l l e n G e s

The Department’s bureaus and organizations face many challenges that pose risks to its workforce and facilities, and have significant health and safety implications over the next several years. Some of these are shrinking resources, emergency response activities, infrastructure maintenance, and an aging workforce, as well as programmatic challenges. Also of concern in the challenge of providing productive and safe workplaces is the continuous turnover of bureau collateral duty safety coordinators.

e x T e R n a l f a C T o R s

In the summer of 2010, OPM launched a Wellness Initiative that required all agencies to develop, measure and resource Health and Wellness Programs. The Office of Occupational Safety and Health is responsible for the coordination of the Department’s Health and Wellness efforts.

In the fall of 2010, the President launched the POWEr (Protecting our Workers and Ensuring reemployment) initiative. POWEr, the replacement for SHArE (Safety, Health, and return to Employment), is designed to improve workplace safety and health of federal employees. Under POWEr, federal agencies are required to track their progress in several critical areas of emphasis

The Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Program continually faces increasing demands for greater productivity and increased services.

p R o G R a m s C o n T R I b u T I n G T o T h I s o b j e C T I v e

All Department bureaus and organizations have a role in empowering employees and creating productive and safe workplaces.

p R o G R a m e v a l u a T I o n s

The Department evaluates the bureaus’ safety program management and uses reporting requirements from OSHA to assess bureau safety program performance. For example, the Department prepares an Annual Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) report to the Department of Labor (DOL), which highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of the bureaus’ occupational safety and health programs.

The Department can measure this strategy by the number of Safety and Health Council members completing training on their safety and occupational health responsibilities as well as by the number of effective management/employee bureau/organization safety committees. In 2009, DOL Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) increased its inspection activity by targeting federal agencies and their programs for unannounced inspections. In 2010, OSHA conducted several announced and unannounced inspections of Department facilities. While some inspections resulted in no citations, there have been some facilities that received numerous citations. The good news is that the majority of the citations were minor.