‘Grossly deficient’: understaffed workplace-safety program struggled to regularly inspect workplaces, evaluation finds
Twenty-six of the 29 people interviewed for the report—including program officials, and employer and employee representatives—identified problems affecting inspections, including staffing and funding constraints, training gaps, turnover, and geographic barriers.
The federal government’s program that enforces workplace-safety rules for more than 1.4 million employees is understaffed, and cannot regularly inspect workplaces across the country, according to a recent evaluation.
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