November 2, 2012 at 09:58 PM
The Labor Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) is urging OSHA to ramp up oversight of the agency's Management Accountability Program (MAP), which it put in place in the mid-2000s amid concerns from Congress' investigative arm about OSHA's ability to improve its oversight of agency programs. But OSHA says it has no comment on the OIG recommendations to beef up oversight. OIG specifically recommends in a recent audit report that the OSHA chief strengthen the oversight of MAP by the Directorate for Evaluation and Analysis (DEA) within the agency. The report suggests the OSHA head strength