Occupational health and safety professionals across the country face budget cuts that could make training and education more challenging. But service providers and industry observers say there may be ways of making curtailed safety budgets work, even in tough financial times.

Despite the economic downturn that has touched – in one way or another – many organizations across the globe, safety is seemingly one area where many Canadian organizations aren’t willing to compromise.

In our most recent Reader Panel survey, we asked safety professionals about safety budgets and whether the global financial crisis is affecting how their organizations are dealing with safety spending.