DOL plans to restructure regional operations
The Department of Labor has announced changes to the structure of its Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s regional operations.
The changes include the creation of a new OSHA regional office in Birmingham, Ala., which will oversee agency operations in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, as well as the Florida Panhandle. It also will address the Birmingham area’s growing worker population and the hazardous work done by employees in food processing, construction, heavy manufacturing and chemical processing.
Additionally, OSHA is planning to merge Regions 9 and 10 into a new San Francisco Region to improve operations and reduce operating costs. As part of the changes, OSHA also will rename its regions to associate them by geography, rather than its current practice of assigning numbers to regions. Region 4 will be renamed the Atlanta Region with jurisdiction over Florida (excluding the Panhandle), Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The current Region 6 will be renamed the Dallas Region and have jurisdiction over New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
The compositions of OSHA’s other regions will remain the same. When changes are completed, the agency’s regions will be renamed as follows:
OSHA plans to transition to its new regional structure later in fiscal year 2024. Once implemented, the agency’s regional maps and contact information will be updated publicly at osha.gov.
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