{"id":3948,"date":"2018-10-03T08:51:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2018-10-03T00:13:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T04:13:01","slug":"fy2019-osha-budget-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/10\/03\/fy2019-osha-budget-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"FY 2019 OSHA Budget Is Here: Good News, But More Work to be Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-369\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/30822707756_616ba66395_z-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"OSHA Budget\" width=\"350\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/30822707756_616ba66395_z-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/30822707756_616ba66395_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Happy New Year!!! <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Hope you&#8217;re not still hung over from celebrating the dawn of Fiscal Year 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Well wake up, we have some shocking and fairly good news (considering&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>For the first time practically in recorded memory, the Labor-HHS-Education budget, which includes OSHA, MSHA and NIOSH, was passed and signed into law before the beginning of the new Fiscal Year &#8212; October 1st.\u00a0 The final OSHA budget actually contains a $5 million increase over FY 2018 and $8.8 million over the <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/02\/15\/trumps-budget-undermines-worker-safety\/\">President&#8217;s FY 2019 Request<\/a>. We can thank the Senate for that, considering the final budget is a whopping $12.5 million over what the <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/06\/15\/house-subcommittee-cuts-osha-funding\/\">House<\/a> wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The total<strong> OSHA<\/strong> budget is $557.8 million, a $5 million increase over FY 2018\n<ul>\n<li>$1 million increase for federal enforcement,<\/li>\n<li>$1.5 million increase for state plans<\/li>\n<li>$2.5 million increase for federal compliance assistance ($3.5 million will be spent on the Voluntary Protection Programs)<\/li>\n<li>Susan Harwood Worker Training Grant program continues to be funded at $10 million &#8212; despite the Trump administration&#8217;s continuing efforts to kill it.<\/li>\n<li>There are no &#8220;poison pill&#8221; riders &#8212; attempts to kill silica enforcement or OSHA&#8217;s electronic recordkeeping standard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The<strong> MSHA<\/strong> budget is level funded.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NIOSH<\/strong> will receive\u00a0 $336.3 million (a $1 million increase over FY 2018).\n<ul>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s\u00a0proposal to transfer NIOSH to the National Institutes of Health and slash the NIOSH budget was rejected.\u00a0Funding for the Educational Resource Centers, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Research Centers and other NIOSH programs was maintained.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A few other Labor Department programs &#8212; <strong>Wage and Hour Division, Bureau of Labor Standards<\/strong> and the <strong>Office of Labor Management Standards<\/strong> &#8212; also got small increases although funding for employment services was cut.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A Word of Warning<\/h2>\n<p>But don&#8217;t get too happy. While these small increases (or level funding) are good news considering who&#8217;s in the White House and in control of Congress, funding for virtually all of the labor programs has been basically frozen for years. The total OSHA budget, and some line items like State Plan funding, are still lower than they were in 2012, as you can see in the table below.\u00a0 And while the budget hasn&#8217;t shown much change, the\u00a0 costs of operating these programs have increased, resulting in declining staffing levels and program activity.<\/p>\n<p>As AFL-CIO Safety and Health Director Peg Seminario summarizes,\u00a0&#8220;we have a victory holding the line, but much more work to be done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"tablepress-45-name\" class=\"tablepress-table-name tablepress-table-name-id-45\">FY 2019 Job Safety and Health Budget<\/h2>\n<span id=\"tablepress-45-description\" class=\"tablepress-table-description tablepress-table-description-id-45\">In thousands of dollars<\/span>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-45\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-45\" aria-labelledby=\"tablepress-45-name\" aria-describedby=\"tablepress-45-description\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">CATEGORY<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">FY 2009<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">FY 2010<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">FY 2011<\/th><th class=\"column-5\">FY 2012<\/th><th class=\"column-6\">FY 2013<\/th><th class=\"column-7\">FY 2014<\/th><th class=\"column-8\">FY 2015<\/th><th class=\"column-9\">FY 2016<\/th><th class=\"column-10\">FY 2017 <br \/>\nOmnibus<\/th><th class=\"column-11\">FY 2018 <br \/>\nOmnibus<\/th><th class=\"column-12\">FY 2019<br \/>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">OSHA<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td><td class=\"column-8\"><\/td><td class=\"column-9\"><\/td><td class=\"column-10\"><\/td><td class=\"column-11\"><\/td><td class=\"column-12\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">OSHA TOTAL<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">513,0422<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">558,620<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">558,619<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">564,788<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">535,246<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">552,247<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">552,787<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">552,787<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">552,787<\/td><td class=\"column-11\">552,787<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">557,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Safety and Health Standards<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">17,204<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">19,569<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">20,288<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">19,962<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">18,918<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">20,000<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">20,000<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">20,000<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">18,000<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 18,176 <\/td><td class=\"column-12\">18,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Federal Enforcement<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">197,946<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">223,399<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">208,146<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">207,753<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">207,928<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">207,785<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">208,000<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">208,000<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">208,000<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 208,000<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">209,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Whistleblower Protection<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><\/td><td class=\"column-4\">14,806<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">15,873<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">15,043<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">17,000<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">17,500<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">17,500<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">17,500<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 17,383 <\/td><td class=\"column-12\">17,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">State Enforcement<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">92,593<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">104,393<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">104,393<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">104,196<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">98,746<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">100,000<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">100,850<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">100,850<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">100,850<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 100,658 <\/td><td class=\"column-12\">102,350<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Technical Support<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">22,632<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">25,920<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">25,868<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">25,820<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">24,344<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">24,344<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">24,469<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">24,469<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">24,469<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 24,469<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">24,469<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Federal Compliance Assistance<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">72,659<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">73,380<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">73,383<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">76,355<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">61,444<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">69,433<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">68,433<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">68,433<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">70,981<\/td><td class=\"column-11\">70,981<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">75,981<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">State Compliance Assistance<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">54,531<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">54,798<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">54,688<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">57,890<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">54,862<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">57,775<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">57,775<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">57,775<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">59,500<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 59,500<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">59,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Training Grants<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">10,000<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">10,750<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">10,729<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">10,709<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">10,149<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">10,687<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">10,537<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">10,537<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">10,537<\/td><td class=\"column-11\">10,537<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">10,537<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Safety and Health Statistics<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">34,128<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">34,875<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">34,805<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">34,739<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">32,922<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">34,250<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">34,250<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">34,250<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">32,900<\/td><td class=\"column-11\">32,900<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">32,900<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Executive Administration<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">11,349<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">11,536<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">11,513<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">11,491<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">10,890<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">10,973<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">10,973<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">10,973<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">10,050<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 10,050<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">10,050<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">MSHA <\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\"><\/td><td class=\"column-4\"><\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><\/td><td class=\"column-6\"><\/td><td class=\"column-7\"><\/td><td class=\"column-8\"><\/td><td class=\"column-9\"><\/td><td class=\"column-10\"><\/td><td class=\"column-11\"><\/td><td class=\"column-12\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">MSHA TOTAL<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">347,003<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">357,293<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">361,8443<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">372,524<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">353,768<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">375,887<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">375,887<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">375,887<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">373,816<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 375,172 <\/td><td class=\"column-12\">$373,816<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Coal Enforcement<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">154,491<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">158,662<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">160,639<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">164,500<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">158,713<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">167,859<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">167,859<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">167,859<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">160,000<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 160,000<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">160,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-17\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Metal\/Nonmetal Enforcement<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">82,427<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">85,422<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">87,644<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">89,063<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">86,121<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">91,697<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">91,697<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">91,967<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">94,500<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 94,500<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">94,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-18\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Standards Development<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">3,031<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">3,481<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">4,352<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">4,765<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">4,547<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">5,416<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">5,416<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">5,416<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">4,500<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 4,500<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">4,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-19\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Assessments<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">6,134<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">6,233<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">6,221<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">7,103<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">7,036<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">6,976<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">6,976<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">6,976<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">6,627<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 6,627<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">6627<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-20\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Education Policy and Development<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">38,605<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">38,605<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">38,148<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">38,325<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">31,898<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">36,320<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">36,320<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">36,320<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">39,320<\/td><td class=\"column-11\">39,320<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">39,320<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-21\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Technical Support<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">30,117<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">30,642<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">31,031<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">33,613<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">32,050<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">33,791<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">33,791<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">33,791<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">35,041<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 35,041<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">35,041<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-22\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Program Administration<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">15,684<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">17,391<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">15,906<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">16,998<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">15,974<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">15,838<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">15,838<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">15,838<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">15,838<\/td><td class=\"column-11\">15,838<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">15,838<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-23\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Program Eval. and Info Resources<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">16,514<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">16,857<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">18,173<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">18,157<\/td><td class=\"column-6\">17,429<\/td><td class=\"column-7\">17,990<\/td><td class=\"column-8\">17,990<\/td><td class=\"column-9\">17,990<\/td><td class=\"column-10\">17,990<\/td><td class=\"column-11\"> 17,990<\/td><td class=\"column-12\">17,990<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-24\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">NIOSH <\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td 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Hope you&#8217;re not still hung over from celebrating the dawn of Fiscal Year 2019. Well wake up, we have some shocking and fairly good news (considering&#8230;) For the first time practically in recorded memory, the Labor-HHS-Education budget, which includes OSHA, MSHA and NIOSH, was passed and signed into law before the beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,33,71,134,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-dol","category-msha","category-niosh","category-osha"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FY 2019 OSHA Budget Is Here: Good News, But More Work to be Done - Confined Space<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"OSHA receives a $5 million increase for FY 2019, and the Susan Harwood Program survives another year. 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