DoL IG Targets OSHA and MSHA in 2013 Workplan
The Labor Department’s Inspector General has released its Audit Workplan
for 2013, available at http://www.oig.dol.gov/public/reports/oa/2013/FY-2013-Audit-Workplan.pdf. Among the discretionary audits the IG has in its sights this year include three that will look at OSHA activities: OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP), carried over from last year; a new audit on OSHA’s Usage of National Emphasis Programs (NEPs) and Local Emphasis; and, another carry over from last year, taking a look at how well OSHA spent money from the Recovery Act to hire 76 FTEs for inspections and enforcement activities. Five audits will look at MSHA programs: MSHA’s Implementation of Corrective Actions to Address Recommendations Made for Upper Big Branch; Follow-up on OIG’s Report on
the Crandall Canyon Roof Collapse; Metal and Nonmetal Mine Rescue Contests; MSHA Metal and Nonmetal Inspections, South Dakota; and Review of MSHA’s Use of Section 110 of the MINE Act; and MSHA Oversight of Accident and Injury
Reporting.