OSHA inspections up under Trump, but less intense

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration performed slightly more work site inspections in President Trump’s first year in office than it did under President Barack Obama’s final year, but they were less thorough, in a rollback of the previous administration’s efforts.

The federal safety agency performed 32,396 inspections in fiscal 2017, which ended Sept. 30, 2017, a modest increase over the previous year’s figure of 31,948. However, the inspections were shorter and less intense overall, with OSHA inspectors opening more cases but spending less time on them.