Obama’s budget to increase OSHA’s enforcement arsenal
OSHA Healthcare Connection, March 3, 2009
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Reversing an eight-year trend of dwindling OSHA enforcement resources, President Obama's budget blueprint for 2010, released on February 26, calls for "restoring the department's ability to meet its responsibilities to working Americans under the more than 180 worker protection laws it enforces," reports the Kansas City Star.
For more on increasing OSHA budgets, see "A new day dawns for OSHA enforcement under Obama's budget" at the OSHA Healthcare Advisor.
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