Editing Elaine Chao (section)

====Workplace safety====
During her tenure, the Department of Labor achieved "record low worker injury, illness and fatality rates; record back wages recovered; [and] record monetary recoveries for workers’ pension plans".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mall |first1=Scott |title=FreightWaves Classics/Leaders: Chao broke barriers leading federal departments |url=https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classicsleaders-elaine-chao-broke-barriers-and-led-accomplishments |website=FreightWaves |date=May 26, 2022 |access-date=May 2, 2023 |archive-date=May 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502075155/https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classicsleaders-elaine-chao-broke-barriers-and-led-accomplishments |url-status=live }}</ref> A 2009 internal audit appraising an [[Occupational Safety and Health Administration]] (OSHA) initiative focusing on problematic workplaces for the past six years stated that employees had failed to gather needed data, conducted uneven inspections and enforcement, and failed to discern repeat fatalities because records misspelled the companies' names or failed to notice when two subsidiaries with the same owner were involved; it also noted that after rules changes in January 2008 the number of targeted companies declined by almost half.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/01/AR2009040103939.html |title=Initiative On Worker Safety Gets Poor Marks: IG's Report Links Weak Enforcement To Job Fatalities |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 2, 2009 |access-date=February 4, 2012 |first=R. Jeffrey |last=Smith |archive-date=November 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108155803/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/01/AR2009040103939.html |url-status=live }}</ref>