Oregon OSHA Facing Budget Cuts
From OH&S Online at http://ohsonline.com/articles/2010/06/02/cuts-affect-or-osha.aspx?admgarea=news
Freeze, Cuts Affect 14 Percent of OR-OSHA’s Staff
In the agency’s June newsletter, Administrator Michael Wood discussed the moves made in response to a longer-than-expected revenue shortfall.
Jun 02, 2010
Participants in the SAFETY listserv know Michael Wood, administrator of Oregon OSHA, well for sharing thoughtful, insightful comments about hotly debated or confusing questions. Wood shares something else — the difficulty caused by freezing vacant positions, laying off eight staffers, and shifting a few positions from full to half time — in a column in this month’s newsletter (http://www.orosha.org/pdf/resource/2850-2010-06.pdf) from his agency. All told, OR-OSHA’s authorized staffing of 222 positions is being reduced by 32, or 14 percent, Wood writes….