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GAO-23-106464 1 (2023-05-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaoopr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G < ' U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 9, 2023 The Honorable Julie A. Su Acting Secretary of Labor U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20210 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Labor Dear Acting Secretary Su: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Department of Labor's (DOL) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2022, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 DOL's implementation rate was 72 percent. As of March 2023, DOL had 120 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our July 2022 letter, DOL has implemented two of 12 priority recommendations: DOL's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) worked with the Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service to revise their Memorandum of Understanding and improve collaboration to ensure the safety of meat and poultry workers and to set time frames for evaluating the memorandum, as we recommended in November 2017. These changes will help the agencies improve their collaboration and leverage their resources to further protect the safety and health of plant workers and inspectors.3 DOL's OSHA evaluated its procedures for ensuring that employers electronically report annual 300A injury and illness data when required, and implemented a plan to remediate deficiencies, as we recommended in January 2021. As a result, more establishments are submitting required reports, and OSHA has increased citations for noncompliance from 95 in 2019 to 369 in 2022. Complete injury and illness data are needed for OSHA's 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or fragmentation, overlap, or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2022, GAO-23-900398 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2022). 3GAO, Workplace Safety and Health: Better Outreach, Collaboration, and Information Needed to Help Protect Workers at Meat and Poultry Plants, GAO-18-12 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 9, 2017). GAO-23-106464 DOL Priority Recommendations Page 1

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