OSHA appears to have renewed its commitment to voluntary protection programs (VPP) and taxpayer funding for the efforts, at least for the time being, stakeholders say, as the White House unveiled plans Monday to restore voluntary program funds in a proposed budget that increases total OSHA spending by nearly $25 million in fiscal year 2012, hiking agency funds to $583 million. Unions expressed some concern with the policy shift, but were occupied Monday with Republican efforts in the House to make deep cuts in OSHA's budget for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, and joined congressional Democr
December 30, 2025