5 U.S.C. § 7903 — Protective clothing and equipment

Page 923 TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES § 7905 Ex. Ord. No. 12610, Sept. 30, 1987, 52 F.R. 36901, ex- tended term until Sept. 30, 1989. Ex. Ord. No. 12534, Sept. 30, 1985, 50 F.R. 40319, ex- tended term until Sept. 30, 1987. Ex. Ord. No. 12489, Sept. 28, 1984, 49 F.R. 38927, ex- tended term until Sept. 30, 1985. Ex. Ord. No. 12399, Dec. 31, 1982, 48 F.R. 379, extended term until Sept. 30, 1984. Ex. Ord. No. 12258, Dec. 31, 1980, 46 F.R. 1251, extended term until Dec. 31, 1982. Ex. Ord. No. 12110, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1069, extended term until Dec. 31, 1980. Ex. Ord. No. 11948, Dec. 20, 1976, 41 F.R. 55705, ex- tended term until Dec. 31, 1978. THE PRESIDENTIAL POWER INITIATIVE: PROTECTING OUR WORKERS AND ENSURING REEMPLOYMENT Memorandum of President of the United States, July 19, 2010, 75 F.R. 43029, provided: Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Depart- ments and Agencies Each year Federal civilian employees are injured or fall ill on the job in significant numbers. Although the Federal Government has made progress in reducing workplace injuries and illnesses in recent years, its workers (excluding those employed by the U.S. Postal Service) still filed more than 79,000 new claims and re- ceived over $1.6 billion in workers’ compensation pay- ments in fiscal year 2009. Many of these work-related injuries and illnesses are preventable, and executive de- partments and agencies can and should do even more to improve workplace safety and health, reduce the finan- cial burden of injury on taxpayers, and relieve unneces- sary suffering by workers and their families. Therefore, I am establishing a 4-year Protecting Our Workers and Ensuring Reemployment (POWER) Initia- tive, covering fiscal years 2011 through 2014. The POWER Initiative will extend prior workplace safety and health efforts of the Federal Government by set- ting more aggressive performance targets, encouraging the collection and analysis of data on the causes and consequences of frequent or severe injury and illness, and prioritizing safety and health management pro- grams that have proven effective in the past. Under the POWER Initiative, each executive depart- ment and agency will be expected to improve its per- formance in seven areas: (i) reducing total injury and illness case rates; (ii) reducing lost time injury and illness case rates; (iii) analyzing lost time injury and illness data; (iv) increasing the timely filing of workers’ com- pensation claims; (v) increasing the timely filing of wage-loss claims; (vi) reducing lost production day rates; and (vii) speeding employees’ return to work in cases of serious injury or illness. Executive departments and agencies (except the U.S. Postal Service) shall coordinate with the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administra- tion and Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs to establish performance targets in each category. The Secretary of Labor shall lead the POWER Initiative by measuring both Government-wide and agency-level per- formance and reporting to me annually. Each executive department and agency shall bear its own costs for participating in the POWER Initiative, and nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or enti- ties, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. The Secretary of Labor is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register. BARACK OBAMA. § 7903. Protective clothing and equipment Appropriations available for the procurement of supplies and material or equipment are avail- able for the purchase and maintenance of special clothing and equipment for the protection of personnel in the performance of their assigned tasks. For the purpose of this section, ‘‘appro- priations’’ includes funds made available by statute under section 9104 of title 31. (Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 531; Pub. L. 97–258, § 3(a)(16), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1063.) HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES Derivation U.S. Code Revised Statutes and Statutes at Large .................. 5 U.S.C. 118g. Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 744, § 13, 60 Stat. 809. The definition of the word ‘‘appropriations’’ is added on authority of section 18 of the Act of Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 744, 60 Stat. 811. Standard changes are made to conform with the defi- nitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report. Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 1982—Pub. L. 97–258 substituted ‘‘section 9104’’ for ‘‘section 849’’. § 7904. Employee assistance programs relating to drug abuse and alcohol abuse (a) The head of each Executive agency shall, in a manner consistent with guidelines prescribed under subsection (b) of this section and applica- ble provisions of law, establish appropriate pre- vention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs and services for drug abuse and alcohol abuse for employees in or under such agency. (b) The Office of Personnel Management shall, after such consultations as the Office considers appropriate, prescribe guidelines for programs and services under this section. (c) The Secretary of Health and Human Serv- ices, on request of the head of an Executive agency, shall review any program or service pro- vided under this section and shall submit com- ments and recommendations to the head of the agency concerned. (Added Pub. L. 99–570, title VI, § 6004(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–159.) § 7905. Programs to encourage commuting by means other than single-occupancy motor ve- hicles (a) For the purpose of this section— (1) the term ‘‘employee’’ means an employee as defined by section 2105, a member of a uni- formed service, and a student who provides voluntary services under section 3111; (2) the term ‘‘agency’’ means— (A) an Executive agency; (B) an entity of the legislative branch; and (C) the judicial branch; (3) the term ‘‘entity of the legislative branch’’ means the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Office of the Architect of the Capitol (including the Botanic Garden), the