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OSHA’s FY2026 Top 10 Looks Exactly Like Last Year’s. September’s Citations Show Why.
By NASP Blogger Current Events
OSHA's preliminary FY2026 Top 10 contains the same ten standards as FY2025, with fall protection first for the sixteenth straight year. Three September enforcement actions worth $878,246 show what that list looks like on the ground: nobody was cited for a hazard they didn't know about.
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