Open Recommendations

Embassy Kuwait City should comply with all Department overseas motor vehicle safety standards for chauffeurs and incidental drivers under chief of mission authority.

Embassy Kuwait City should record all embassy vehicle usage in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Kuwait City should dispose of excess expendable and nonexpendable property, in accordance with Department guidelines.

Embassy Kuwait City should account for all expendable and nonexpendable property in the Integrated Logistics Management System, in accordance with Department guidelines.

Embassy Kuwait City should bring its furniture and appliance pool into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Kuwait City should comply with Department standards related to the use of the shipping containers as permanent storage.

Embassy Kuwait City should bring its contracting officer’s representative program into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Kuwait City should comply with the Department’s model standard lease and pay residential utility bills based on actual expenses.

Embassy Kuwait City, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should conduct a technical review of the design plans for the two structures used as facility management workshops and breakrooms and a bodyguard breakroom and submit the survey for approval, in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Kuwait City should perform monthly testing of its emergency lighting system, in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Kuwait City should perform all information systems security officer responsibilities in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Kuwait City should complete its ultra-high frequency point-to-point radio communication project to upgrade the radio network.

Conduct a comprehensive review of the facilities that addresses ongoing and projected technical issues and assesses the plants’ capacities and capabilities to convert the DUF6 inventory well into the future, which includes determining an optimal conversion rate at which the plants can operate safely and reliably.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health: update guidance or policy to include supervisory review of inspection files to ensure they contain adequate support for the reasons regarding citation issuance decisions before closing inspections.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health: develop a plan for a future pandemic or epidemic to collaborate with external agencies on worksite case data and to use this data to maximize rapid response and enforcement actions in worksites.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health: as part of OSHA's rulemaking on infectious diseases, require employers to notify all employees of all known positive cases at the worksite.

We recommend the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health: develop and implement a tracking tool to ensure OSHA receives and reviews all items CSHOs request during inspections to ensure alleged hazards have been mitigated.

CDC should update its guidance recommending protections for personnel interacting with potentially infected passengers, particularly when data are limited.

CDC should ensure that its PPE trainings meet OSHA standards.

CDC should develop a comprehensive plan for recommending travel-related containment measures that weighs the risks relative to the public health benefits.

Perform a complete agency-wide fraud risk assessment (which incorporates the fraud risk assessments performed at the program level) and use the results to develop and implement an agency-wide plan to move HUD's fraud risk management program out of the ad hoc phase.

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Develop and implement a strategy for collecting and analyzing agency-wide data, to include subrecipient and beneficiary data, to identify trends and potential indicators of fraud across programs.

Embassy Ottawa should include all required documents in its public diplomacy grants files in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Ottawa, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should bring all consular spaces into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Ottawa should conduct audits of passport adjudications in accordance with Department standards.