The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) says it is “deeply troubled” that the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is targeted for elimination in President Trump’s budget blueprint for 2018.
For more than 20 years, the CSB has played a critical role in keeping American workers safe as an independent, non-regulatory federal agency in charge of conducting root-cause investigations of industrial chemical incidents at fixed facilities. Examples include the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the Texas City Refinery explosion. The investigations lead to vital safety recommendations that ASSE members and many others use to prevent workplace incidents. As a result, American workers stay safer, and many lives are saved.