Objective 6.4: Safety & Productivity

Provide a safe and productive workplace for employees that supports secure and continuous operations

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The events of September 11, 2001, made it necessary to revisit the Census Bureau’s disaster recovery and continuity of operations efforts. Doing so called for the development of a more robust plan -- a plan that will ensure fulfillment of the critical elements of the Census Bureau’s mission in the event of a physical or biological attack. The plan also supports ongoing information technology security programs. Strategies and means: * Ensure that essential operations of the Census Bureau, if interrupted because of catastrophic events, can be re-established at the earliest possible moment. * Promote information technology security that is consistent with the agency’s enterprise architecture and supports business operations. * Establish and maintain up-to-date emergency procedures. * Communicate any building-related safety and health issues to employees. * Ensure that any unsafe and unhealthy conditions are reported to the appropriate areas and are addressed in a timely manner. Measuring performance: * Timely and effective handling of service calls about workplace conditions. * Number of OSHA recordable workplace injuries, and percent of staff with such injuries. * Percent recovery of tested systems during testing of continuity of operations capabilities.

Stakeholder(s):

• OSHA

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