The Public Service Worker Protection Act expands federal workplace safety requirements to cover public employees for the first time. Currently, the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) applies only to private sector workers, but this bill would extend those same safety standards and protections to federal, state, and local government employees. The legislation takes effect 90 days after enactment for federal workers and most state and local employees, though states without their own OSHA-approved safety plans have an additional 36 months to comply. The bill does not specify new funding amounts but requires the expansion of existing OSHA enforcement mechanisms to cover roughly 23 million public sector workers currently excluded from federal safety protections.
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