Air Force Depot Maintenance: Status of Safety Initiatives
NSIAD-94-37
Published: Oct 28, 1993. Publicly Released: Nov 05, 1993.
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Highlights
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Air Force's efforts to improve depot maintenance safety and training at the San Antonio Air Logistics Center (ALC), focusing on the: (1) effectiveness of Air Force actions in response to prior recommendations; and (2) status of improvements to the safety program at the San Antonio ALC.
Recommendations
Recommendations for Executive Action
| Agency Affected | Recommendation | Status |
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| Department of the Air Force | The Secretary of the Air Force should direct the Commander, Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), to establish commandwide safety improvement initiatives with quantifiable targets and goals. |
Closed – Implemented
On September 24, 1993, the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security) tasked the Air Force to direct that AFMC establish command-wide safety improvement initiatives with quantifiable targets and goals. AFMC established such goals for fiscal year 1994.
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| Department of the Air Force | The Secretary of the Air Force should direct the Commander, AFMC, to continue to use the Safety Process Effectiveness Reviews to measure the extent to which ALC have implemented safety improvements. |
Closed – Implemented
AFMC is using the Safety Program Evaluation Process to measure compliance with the Occupational Safety Program Requirements across the command. The Department reports that these evaluations will be accomplished at least once every three years. Additionally, the non-safety program deficiencies identified in GAO's draft report were validated by the AFMC Inspector General from October 24-29, 1993, and will be specifically addressed by the appropriate logistics and civil engineering functional managers.
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| Department of Labor | The Secretary of Labor should require the Acting Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health to change OSHA guidelines for lost time injury reporting for federal agencies to require the identification of restricted time when workers cannot perform their regularly assigned duties as a result of injury or accidents. |
Closed – Implemented
OSHA made some changes to its lost time injury reporting, but did not revise the procedures to require that time spent on restricted duty be counted as lost time.
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Accident preventionAir Force facilitiesAircraft maintenanceData collectionEmployee trainingMaintenance standardsOccupational safetySafety regulationSafety standardsWorking conditions