The House Appropriations Committee is making cuts to OSHA’s fiscal year 2027 budget that go beyond President Trump’s requested reductions to the agency, removing an additional $5.48 million on top of the $46.9 million reductions the White House requested from FY26-enacted levels.
September 16, 2026
The Agriculture Department (USDA) is optimistic that its proposals to increase processing speeds at poultry and pork slaughterhouses will be upheld in court, pointing to a 2025 Supreme Court ruling that it says eliminated the need to consider worker safety, which is not part of USDA’s authority.
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The Agriculture Department (USDA) is optimistic that its proposals to increase processing speeds at poultry and pork slaughterhouses will be upheld in court, pointing to a 2025 Supreme Court ruling that it says eliminated the need to consider worker safety, which is not part of USDA’s authority.
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The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is renewing its calls for OSHA to amend its process safety management (PSM) standard to address reactive hazards, saying that implementing such requirements could have prevented a fatal accident at a caramel coloring manufacturing plant in Kentucky.
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Labor unions are urging EPA to maintain current compliance deadlines for workplace exposure requirements in the Biden-era TSCA rules on carbon tetrachloride (CTC or CCl4) and perchloroethylene (perc or PCE), arguing the agency’s plan to extend the deadlines until June 2027 will harm workers.
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OSHA has scheduled a series of informal public hearings for August on a host of deregulatory proposals unveiled last year, including a plan to eliminate medical evaluation requirements for certain respirators that the agency’s construction advisory panel has recommended OSHA drop.
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OSHA has scheduled a series of informal public hearings for August on a host of deregulatory proposals unveiled last year, including a plan to eliminate medical evaluation requirements for certain respirators that the agency’s construction advisory panel has recommended OSHA drop.
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Worker-safety advocacy groups and employer representatives continue to clash over proposed amendments to California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) workplace violence-prevention standard, including over key definitions, employee representatives’ access to records and training requirements.
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Texas produce groups are pushing back on OSHA’s efforts to dismiss the groups’ constitutional challenge to the OSH Act, arguing the agency is failing to address the merits of their arguments and instead is raising various procedural defenses that are flawed.
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A Texas oil field equipment supplier has dropped without comment its legal challenge to the constitutionality of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), which it originally filed after receiving OSHA citations related to the death of a subcontractor’s employee.
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