# Safety and Health Standards

**Agency:** Labor  
**Account:** Safety and Health Standards  
**Source document:** Occupational Safety and Health Administration · p. 9  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/labor/safety-and-health-standards  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 21.0 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 18.5 |
| FY2027 | request | 15.7 |

## Labor discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $10.30B, FY2026 $13.70B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Ensuring employers provide their workers with a safe and healthy workplace is the core mission of OSHA. To accomplish this mission, OSHA uses both regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to address a broad array of workplace safety and health hazards in support of the President's priorities, including ensuring the Nation's workers are valued and working in safe conditions and that all workers can thrive in their jobs. The agency's standards and guidance products extensively cover occupational safety and health hazards in a wide range of workplaces and industries, including general industry, construction, and maritime. Additionally, OSHA has a robust agenda of activity to comply with President Trump's Executive Order on Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation. OSHA continually evaluates hazards and risks to the health and safety of workers. The agency identifies areas where new health and safety standards are necessary to protect workers. The agency also evaluates existing standards to determine when updates are necessary to remain relevant by reflecting current health studies, technologies, and approaches, as well as considering updated national consensus standards. The agency engages in deregulatory activities as well to modernize standards in ways that allow new technologies and / or reduce the regulatory burden on employers, while maintaining a high level of workplace safety and health. During the rulemaking process, the agency must meet the legal and administrative requirements under the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act, other applicable legislation passed by Congress, and Executive Orders. The standard-setting process is complex, carrying with it the force of law, and involves several steps and comprehensive stages of review. OSHA's rules must be accompanied by analyses, based on the best available evidence, to clearly identify the risk of the hazard being addressed and the impacts of regulatory requirements on employers and the economy, offer proof that the new standard will appropriately address that risk, and ensure the requirements are technologically and economically feasible. Such analyses provide multiple opportunities to collect comments and information from the public, affected workers, industries, and other stakeholders. OSHA's scientific analyses to support rulemaking actions sometimes must also be peer-reviewed, and a Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) panel must be conducted when regulatory options under consideration have the potential to produce a significant economic impact on small businesses. OSHA - 15 SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS The agency's regulatory activities are complemented by non-regulatory guidance products that cover a wide variety of occupational safety and health hazards. Guidance products are a form of compliance assistance that allows the agency to inform workers and employers about safety and health issues more expeditiously than through the formal rulemaking process. In both its regulatory and non-regulatory efforts, the agency uses a scientific, common-sense, and plain- language approach to effectively address safety and health hazards and ensure that steps to improve workplace safety and health are easily understood.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Labor › Occupational Safety and Health Administration › Safety and Health Standards


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*