The Secretary of Labor should place emphasis on five issues to ensure safe and healthful workplaces and to promote the welfare of wage earners. First, the Secretary should improve the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's enforcement program. Second, the Secretary should enhance the use of Job Training Partnership Act resources. Third, the Department of Labor should develop a contingency plan to address recessionary problems. Fourth, the department should take action now to assure effective state implementation of the new Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance program. Fifth, the Secreatry should sustain department management improvements. (YLB)