The Audit Group at the Budget and Finance Committee deliberated on two reports submitted by the State Audit Office. The information about the Efficiency Audit of Promoting Safe Labor Conditions, covering 2021-2023, was introduced by the Head of the Efficiency Audit Department, Giorgi Kapanadze.

According to him, the audit resulted in the development of four recommendations for the Labor Inspection:

1. The Labor Inspection, in view of better alignment of the human resources and distribution with the inspection requirements, shall ensure the rotation of new employees to the regional departments simultaneously with the gradual increase of the number of inspectors pro rata to the number of facilities for inspection and taking the sector and regional specifications into account;
2. The Labor Inspection, in view of improving the labor safety preventive policy efficiency, shall determine the target indices of the planned inspections and incorporate them into the strategy of the Ministry;
3. The Labor Inspection, in view of improving the quality of information about the number of business facilities for inspection, shall consider the capabilities of collecting and processing the valid information, including the unified base formats/fields and necessary procedures;
4. The Labor Inspection, in view of identifying the most relevant facilities, shall develop the formal procedure/method (also as a software), which, upon selection, along with professional consideration, effectively and consequently applies the selection criteria through the automation and documentation of some decisions (by means of maintaining the audit trail).

Tornike Shermadini, Head of the Economic Activity Audit Department, introduced the information on Compliance Audit of the LEPL Scientific-Research Center of Agriculture for 2022-2023, along with the audit findings and issued recommendations. According to him, 3 recommendations were issued:

1. In order to confirm the completeness, accuracy and existence of asset accounting, it is advisable for the Scientific-Research Center of Agriculture to register the vehicles recorded on its balance sheet in the name of the Center;
2. Regarding the fuel consumption of heavy machinery, it is recommended that the Scientific-Research Center of Agriculture establish comprehensive control mechanisms. It is advisable to develop a special form that reflects all relevant necessary data/details related to fuel consumption, which ensures completeness of information;
3. In order to avoid employment under labor contracts for positions not covered by the staffing, except in circumstances caused by necessity, staffing levels should be optimized for the relevant positions.