The establishment of the financial year (FY) of the financial year (OSHA) of the financial year for the 2026 (FY) 2026 financial year, the reasoning of the congress, indicated a significant reduction in employees in the next two years and a corresponding reduction in inspection activity. The only large, beautiful bill for Osha or the US Ministry of Labor did not directly or indirectly record the financing levels. On July 31, 2025, the Senate Committee for Fund reported a draft law (p. 2587) with 26: 3, which could dispel rumors about the shrinking budget and the employees of the OSHA: the departments for labor, health and human services as well as the related agencies for appropriations.
Quick hits
- P. 2587, the budget of Osha in the GJ 2026 budget of 632,309,000 USD, which would maintain the level of financing of the 2025 financial year.
- The most important priorities include enforcement, compliance support, state -plan subsidies, violence prevention at work, guidelines for opioid consumption and continued exceptions for small farms.
- The program for voluntary protection programs (VPP) and Susan Harwood Training Grant receive dedicated funds with protection against reductions.
- The proposed budget underlines the congress on security, health education and targeted risk reduction.
As a result of p. 2587, OSHA would receive $ 632,309,000 for salaries and costs in the 2026 financial year, which corresponds to the previous year's appropriation. This financing would support Osha's core mission to force the law on security and health health from 1970 (OSH Act) in the USA through US security. The draft law for appropriation introduces a new language for which Osha must comply with certain program assignments, as described in the report on funds.
In particular, the draft law for funds contains provisions that the voluntary protection program (VPP) would receive a minimum assignment of $ 3.5 million in the budget of the compliance support from Osha from Osha. Osha would be forbidden to reduce financing or staff for VPP, the security and health performance recognition program (Sharp) or to comply with compliance with security services and to collect the fees of participants on these programs.
The draft law for funds would authorize the OSHA to keep up to 499,000 US dollars of tuition fees and fees for the courses for training institutions annually, with training and health education in the private sector. The invoice would deliver $ 120 million for grants to states in accordance with Section 23 (G) of the OSH Act. These grants support state -administered security programs for security and health that must be at least as effective as the federal program.
The long -term liberation for small agricultural operations (ten or fewer people) from the OSHA regulation would continue, with the exception of those with temporary labor camps. The language contained in p. 2587 calls on Osha to combat violence at the workplace in healthcare and social services and to issue guidelines for overdosing opioid overdoses at the workplace. The agency is instructed to present briefings for these initiatives in the certain time frame.
The Susan Harwood training Grant Program would be assigned $ 12,787,000. The scholarship program for disadvantaged, under-provision, low-income or other endangered workers who will inform you about your rights and employers about your responsibilities as part of the OSH Act.
The proposed funds emphasize the importance of the enforcement activities of the OSHA, in particular for the protection of employee rights, the guarantee of the prevailing wage protection and the fight against exploitative child labor. The legislation would instruct the OSHA to provide briefings and reports on initiatives in connection with opioid consumption and violence prevention at the workplace.
The draft law for appropriation includes a language to prevent the financing or personnel for the most important compliance support and recognition programs. It is quiet that further reductions or settings are set.
The funds for the 2026 financial year would maintain the financing of the OSHA and ensure continued support for enforcement, compliance support, training and state partnership programs. The focus of the congress is on security at work, health education and targeted initiatives that deal with aspiring risks such as opioid consumption and violence at work, and at the same time maintain long -term exceptions and protective measures for small employers and state -given programs. While many complain about the potential decline of Osha, in particular in view of the representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ) “the law on the occupational safety authority”-“Nosha Act” (HR 86)-it seems unlikely that this congress will remove the agency.