United States Department of Labor

Division of Federal Employees' Compensation (DFEC)

POWER Initiative

On July 19, 2010, President Obama established a 4-year Protecting Our Workers and Ensuring Reemployment (POWER) Initiative, covering fiscal years 2011 through 2014. The POWER Initiative will extend prior workplace safety and health efforts of the Federal Government by setting 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 programs that have proven effective in the past. Under the POWER Initiative, each executive department and agency will be expected to improve its performance in seven areas:

1. reducing total injury and illness case rates;
2. reducing lost time injury and illness case rates;
3. analyzing lost time injury and illness data;
4. increasing the timely filing of workers' compensation claims;
5. increasing the timely filing of wage-loss claims;
6. reducing lost production day rates; and
7. speeding employees' return to work in cases of serious injury or illness.

The POWER initiative sets forth minimum targets for improvement in each of the seven goals above, measured against a baseline of agency performance in fiscal year 2009. Agencies have been encouraged to set more challenging targets above the minimum levels, and are invited to contact the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to communicate regarding those targets. Once Federal agency targets for fiscal year 2011 have been determined, they will be displayed on this page. Beginning after the first quarter of FY2011, Federal agency performance data under the POWER Initiative will be posted on this page on a quarterly basis. Any inquiries concerning goals one through three of the POWER initiative may be directed to OSHA's Office of Federal Agency Programs at (202) 693-2122. Inquiries concerning goals four through seven may be directed to DFEC's Branch of Technical Assistance at (202) 693-0040.

To view the memorandum sent by Secretary Solis to the heads of executive branch departments and agencies concerning the POWER initiative, including a table of minimum targets for the goals of the initiative, please click here.

On October 13, 2010, an interagency meeting took place to introduce the POWER Initiative. To view the presentation from the meeting, please click here.

Return-to-Work Resources

Agencies subject to goal 7 of the POWER initiative are tasked with increasing the percentage of injured workers that return to employment within 2 years. OWCP aims to assist agencies in achieving successful return to work of their injured employees. Here are some resources and guidance for all agencies interested in this endeavor.

ODEP Return to Work Tool Kit
Returning Injured Employees to Work

POWER Statistics by Agency

The tables below provide POWER goal progress for Federal agencies and sub-agencies as of the most recent quarter of FY 2012. .

Green = Target met

Red = Target not met

N/A = Data not available or not collected

Please click agency name to view agency and sub-agency performance data

Agency	Goal 1	Goal 2	Goal 3 2	Goal 4	Goal 5	Goal 6 6	Goal 7 3
All Government	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
All Government, less USPS			N/A
US Postal Service	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Agency	Goal 1	Goal 2	Goal 3 2	Goal 4	Goal 5	Goal 6 6	Goal 7 3
Architect of the Capitol 5	N/A	N/A	N/A				N/A
Congressional Budget Office	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A
Government Accountability Office	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A		N/A
Government Printing Office	N/A	N/A	N/A				N/A
House of Representatives	N/A	N/A	N/A				N/A
Library of Congress	N/A	N/A	N/A				N/A
Senate	N/A	N/A	N/A				N/A
United States Botanic Garden	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A		N/A
US Capitol Police	N/A	N/A	N/A				N/A

Agency	Goal 1	Goal 2	Goal 3 2	Goal 4	Goal 5	Goal 6 6	Goal 7 3
Court of Veterans Appeals	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A
Federal Judiciary	N/A	N/A	N/A				N/A
Tax Court of the United States	N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A		N/A

Agency	Goal 1	Goal 2	Goal 3 2	Goal 4	Goal 5	Goal 6 6	Goal 7 3
Department of Agriculture			N/A
Department of Commerce			N/A				N/A
Department of Defense (including Air Force, Army, Navy) 4			N/A				N/A
Department of the Air Force			N/A
Department of the Army			N/A
Department of the Navy			N/A
Department of Defense (excluding Air Force, Army, Navy)	N/A	N/A	N/A
Department of Education			N/A				N/A
Department of Energy			N/A				N/A
Dept. of Health and Human Services			N/A
Department of Homeland Security			N/A
Department of Housing and Urban Dev.			N/A				N/A
Department of Interior			N/A
Department of Justice			N/A
Department of Labor			N/A
Department of State			N/A				N/A
Department of Transportation			N/A
Department of Treasury			N/A
Department of Veterans Affairs			N/A
Executive Office of the President			N/A				N/A

Agency	Goal 1	Goal 2	Goal 3 2	Goal 4	Goal 5	Goal 6 6	Goal 7 3
Agency for International Development			N/A				N/A
Armed Forces Retirement Home			N/A				N/A
Commission on Civil Rights			N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A
Consumer Product Safety Commission			N/A		N/A		N/A
Corp. for National and Community Services			N/A				N/A
Environmental Protection Agency			N/A				N/A
Equal Employment Opportunity Comm.			N/A				N/A
Federal Communication Commission			N/A				N/A
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation			N/A				N/A
Federal Election Commission			N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission	N/A	N/A	N/A				N/A
Federal Maritime Commission			N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A
Fed. Mediation and Conciliation Services			N/A		N/A		N/A
Federal Reserve - Board of Govs			N/A				N/A
Federal Trade Commission			N/A		N/A		N/A
General Services Administration			N/A				N/A
Holocaust Memorial Council			N/A		N/A		N/A
International Boundary & Water Comm./US & Mexico			N/A				N/A
International Broadcasting Bureau			N/A				N/A
International Trade Commission			N/A		N/A		N/A
J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts			N/A		N/A		N/A
Merit Systems Protection Board			N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A
National Aeronautics and Space Admin.			N/A				N/A
National Archives and Records Admin.			N/A				N/A
National Credit Union Administration			N/A		N/A		N/A
National Endowment for the Arts			N/A		N/A		N/A
National Endowment for the Humanities			N/A		N/A		N/A
National Gallery of Art			N/A				N/A
National Labor Relations Board			N/A				N/A
National Science Foundation			N/A				N/A
National Transportation Safety Board			N/A	N/A	N/A		N/A
Nuclear Regulatory Commission			N/A				N/A
Office of Personnel Management			N/A				N/A
Peace Corps			N/A				N/A
Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation			N/A		N/A		N/A
Presidio Trust			N/A				N/A
Railroad Retirement Board			N/A				N/A
Securities and Exchange Commission			N/A				N/A
Selective Service System			N/A				N/A
Small Business Administration			N/A				N/A
Smithsonian Institution			N/A				N/A
Social Security Administration			N/A
Tennessee Valley Authority			N/A				N/A

1. Performance data is not shown for independent agencies, bureaus, commissions or offices which reported no cases in baseline FY2009

2. Goal 3 is not tracked on a quarterly basis. Results will be reported at the end of the Fiscal Year

3. Goal 7 performance is tracked only for the 14 agencies with statistically significant case volumes

4. Department of Defense overall performance for goals 1-6 includes Army, Navy and Air Force. DOD performance for goal 7 excludes, Army, Navy and Air Force, which are shown individually

5. Architect of the Capitol includes the U.S. Botanic Gardens for the TCR and LTCR

6. LPD results for DOL do not include Job Corps; LPD results for Peace Corps do not include PC volunteers

7. For Executive Branch agencies, TCR and LTCR targets are established for the overall department level only