September 16, 2010 at 07:11 PM
The Government Accountability Office is charging that OSHA has yet to adequately respond to its criticism last year on the agency's embattled whistleblower program and has failed to make changes to the program a priority. GAO found that OSHA’s national office continues to have specific management problems, and asserted that there are still issues with consistency and accountability in whistleblower activities across regional offices, as was outlined in the 2009 report. In the report released Sept. 16, GAO calls for OSHA to develop an action plan to address identified internal control weakness