Influenza Pandemic: Increased Agency Accountability Could Help Protect Federal Employees Serving the Public in the Event of a Pandemic

Abstract

Protecting federal workers essential to ensuring the continuity of the country's critical operations will involve new challenges in the event of a pandemic influenza outbreak. This requested report discusses (1) the extent to which agencies have made pandemic plans to protect workers who cannot work remotely and are not first responders, (2) the pandemic plans selected agencies have for certain occupations performing essential functions other than first response, and (3) the opportunities to improve agencies workforce pandemic plans. GAO surveyed pandemic coordinators from 24 agencies and selected three case study occupations for review: federal correctional workers, staff disbursing Treasury checks, and air traffic controllers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2009
Accession Number
AD1180259

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  • Alisa Beyninson
  • Bernice Steinhardt
  • Judith C. Kordahl
  • Nicholas Petrovski
  • Ryan Little
  • Ulyana Panchishin
  • William J. Doherty

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  • United States Government Accountability Office

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