Two House leaders on government oversight have asked the Chemical Hazard and Safety Investigation Board to explain how it achieved a notable increase in employee satisfaction as measured by last year’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.
For several years the Board’s employees “consistently reported job satisfaction levels below those of employees at similarly sized agencies,” said a letter from the chair of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and its subcommittee on the environment. At a 2015 hearing before the subcommittee on “the worst places to work in the federal government,” the Board had said it was taking steps to address morale issues including by convening a workplace improvement committee.
In 2017, the results showed the greatest increase in the “global satisfaction” score among all agencies with fewer than 100 employees, the letter said. It asked for information including documents and communications relating to the FEVS, to other employee surveys or informal contacts, and to the workplace improvement committee.
