OSHA’s budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2017 includes a $42 million increase over 2016 levels and 100 additional full-time staff. Keep reading to learn how OSHA plans to use the additional funding and what it could mean for your facility.
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The largest share of the requested increase—nearly $18 million and 60 full-time staff members—would be dedicated to federal enforcement efforts. Of that amount, OSHA says $6.7 million would support the agency’s enforcement response to reported fatalities, inpatient hospitalizations, and amputations, which have increased since new reporting rules took effect in January 2015. OSHA plans to continue using the Rapid Response Investigation (RRI) protocol to prioritize enforcement resources for these cases.