Federal Audit Names OSHA Among Most Challenged Agencies

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration faces “significant challenges in completing their mandates to ensure the protection of American workers’ safety and health,” says a report issued Wednesday by the Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General that names OSHA among the top performance challenges for the department. The report said the lapses are particularly noticeable in “high-risk industries such as health care, meat packing, agriculture, construction, fishing, forestry, manufacturing and underground and surface mining.” The O...