Items Tagged with 'NIOSH'

Another battle looms with the Trump administration proposing a 74.9% cut in NIOSH’s budget.

Only 20% of employees at the Department of Health and Human Services, home to NIOSH, said they were satisfied with and engaged in their jobs in 2025. 

How will AI impact EHS; what's going on with OSHA and NIOSH; and more questions that don't necessarily have answers. 

The Trump administration had proposed an 8% overall cut from FY 2025 and a 12.3% reduction in OSHA staff.

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a .reversal of its deep staffing cuts to NIOSH.

OSHA, the Chemical Safety Board, NIOSH, and other federal agencies that deal with worker safety were under fire in 2025.

AIHA Chief Executive Officer Larry Sloan says lobbying efforts in the House of Representatives and Senate appear to be successful to ensure the approval program remains funded in fiscal year 2026. 

A House appropriations subcommittee in the first week of September proposed to cut OSHA’s FY26 budget by 8% and NIOSH’s budget by 14 percent.

OSHA is currently faring surprisingly well in a GOP-led anti-regulatory environment.

Letters reversing the layoffs arrived in the inboxes of some NIOSH staff a day ahead of House and Senate hearings May 14 with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. where he faced questions about the layoffs.