Proposed budget cuts for federal agencies devoted to worker health and safety are being met with protests by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), which says they’ll have a negative effect on both worker safety and productivity.
Of last week’s approval by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations of draft funding legislation, AIHA's CEO Lawrence Sloan said; "Although in some ways a slight improvement over President Trump's proposed Fiscal Year 2018 budget requests, the House's draft funding bills largely miss the opportunity for change, falling into the same old patterns that have prevented our workplaces from being as healthy and safe as they could be.