Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer
Kathleen J. H. Wheeler
The Office of the Deputy Chief, Human Capital Officer, includes the following offices; Office of Civil Rights, Office of Human Resources, Office of Occupational Health and Safety and the Office of Strategic Development of Human Capital (This office website is under development). The office was created in June 2004 and includes those offices that are directly involved in developing and implementing policies to ensure that the Department can attract and retain the highly skilled and diverse workforce it needs to carry out its missions.
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The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is
responsible for (1) developing civil rights rules, regulations and
policies to assure compliance with Federal anti-discrimination laws;
(2) providing training and technical assistance to bureaus and offices
in support of civil rights enforcement activities; (3) ensuring
non-discrimination in programs and activities receiving Federal
financial assistance from the Department (currently over two billion
dollars); (4) processing incoming civil rights complaints and (5)
representing the Department in matters involving other Federal agencies
and State and local governments with respect to civil rights issues
affecting the Department.
OCR is also responsible for adjudicating complaints of employment
discrimination and providing policy leadership and direction throughout
the Department on the prevention, resolution and elimination of
discrimination.
OCR is delegated the responsibility for policy development, procedural
guidance, program direction and implementation and evaluation of all
equal opportunity and civil rights programs and activities related to
the Department of the Interiors' equal access and diversity
initiatives. These programs are mandated by various Federal
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The Office of Human Resources has a
critical role
in developing and maintaining the effective workforce needed to
accomplish the Department's mission.
The overall goal of the Office of Human Resources is to assist in
building and deploying an effective, diverse, and highly functioning
workforce. This goal is accomplished through policy development,
implementation, evaluation and oversight; strategic Human Capital
planning; system modernization; and career management.
The Office of Human Resources also develops, implements and evlauates
Departmental policies and programs for a broad range of human resource
issues, including employment, compensation, labor and employee
relations, performance management, workforce development, and
excecutive resources.
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Strategic Development of Human Capital
(Website Under Development)
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Office of Occupational
Health and Safety
The goals of the Office of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) are to provide policy guidance, evaluations and technical consultations on Occupational Safety and health Programs to all DOI Bureau's and Offices, and to ensure a safer and more healthy environment for DOI employees, volunteers and visitors to our National lands.
OHS also hosts the DOI Safety Management Information System (SMIS), which is a leading edge web based and online data management system, unique in the federal sector, that combines an accident reporting and analysis system with online illness and injury compensation reporting to the Department of Labor's office of Workers compensation Program. OHS also hosts the Department-wide Safety and Health information webpage, SafetyNet.
Additionally, OHS provides a wide range of occupational medicine support services including medical reviews of reasonable accomodation requests, medical surveillance programs development and medical clearance program consultations for arduous/hazardous duty occupations.
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