Report: Proposed budget cuts to OSHA would reduce enforcement, inspector training
“The agency is stretched too thin”
Proposed budget cuts to OSHA would have a significant – and negative – impact on the agency's ability to safeguard the health and safety of American workers, according to a report by the Center for Effective Government.
The Center says the agency is already unable to fulfill its core mission due to underfunding, and that deep cuts in the FY 2014 budget proposed by the House of Representatives would: