The bottom line question entering 2017 – and every year – what do resource allocations look like for safety and health departments?
Pretty much what you’d expect, given the challenging economic headwinds that we report many vendors describing elsewhere in this issue of For Distributors Only. Almost half (43 percent) of the ISHN reader respondents to our 2017 forecast survey say their safety and health budgets will remain flat in the coming year. About an equal percentage (42 percent) anticipate a slight bump up in budget funds. More than one in ten (12 percent) are looking at a slight decrease in spending.