The Obama administration wants increased funding and a separate line item in the OSHA budget for the agency's whistleblower program in fiscal 2013, but the whistleblower advocacy community is still concerned about how any boost in resources would actually be used. Stakeholders agree a funding boost is needed now that health reform and other laws are part of the agency's whistleblower turf, but advocates say OSHA still needs to do a better job processing whistleblower complaints while an industry source says OSHA needs to ensure new whistleblower investigators are trained not to start cases out
December 29, 2025