{"id":23799,"date":"2020-07-09T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tsa-improves-covid-19-safety-precautions-after-whistleblower-complaint\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T04:27:00","slug":"tsa-improves-covid-19-safety-precautions-after-whistleblower-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tsa-improves-covid-19-safety-precautions-after-whistleblower-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"#TSA improves COVID-19 safety precautions after whistleblower complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#TSA improves COVID-19 safety precautions after whistleblower complaint<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 9, 2020 |<\/span> 12:27am <\/p>\n

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\n The Transportation Security Administration has improved coronavirus protection for airport screeners after a TSA official accused the agency of endangering travel<\/a>ers, the whistleblower\u2019s lawyer said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The changes include requiring screeners to change or sanitize gloves after every time they pat down a passenger, and to wear face shields around travelers if there aren\u2019t plastic barriers between them and the public.<\/p>\n

Jay Brainard, the top TSA official in Kansas, complained last month to a federal whistleblower-protection office that TSA didn\u2019t train staff for the virus pandemic and barred supervisors from giving screeners stockpiled N95 respirators in March when facial coverings such as surgical masks were hard to buy.<\/p>\n

Brainard said the TSA eventually made changes in response to COVID-19, including requiring screeners to wear masks, but the measures did not go far enough.<\/p>\n

A TSA spokesman confirmed that Brainard met last week with TSA Administrator John Pekoske, but he did not directly address whether the agency changed procedures as a result.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe whistleblowers provide a valuable service to government,\u201d said TSA spokesman Carter Langston, while adding that \u201cinternal feedback comes from many different sources and we listen to all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Langston said the TSA \u201chas adopted a continuous improvement app<\/a>roach throughout the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agency said on its website Wednesday that 997 employees have tested positive for COVID-19 and six have died, plus one screening contractor.<\/p>\n

Last month, Brainard filed a complaint against his own agency with the Office of Special Counsel, which ordered TSA\u2019s parent agency, the Homeland Security Department, to investigate the claims. Homeland Security sent the matter back to the TSA \u201cto investigate itself,\u201d Brainard\u2019s attorney, Tom Devine said \u2014 one element of the government\u2019s response that he found troubling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the fastest I\u2019ve ever seen an agency make changes\u201d after a whistleblower complaint, said Devine, an attorney with the Government Accountability Project, which represents whistleblowers. He faulted the agency, however, for not enacting more changes in use of protective gear until Brainard filed a complaint with the special counsel and talked to reporters.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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