Every day workers and businesses across Washington are required to comply with government regulation. While regulation can help improve health and safety, it can also be burdensome and produce unnecessary costs for businesses that get passed on to consumers. That’s why Washington state has laws that require agencies to consider cost-benefit analysis and the cost of compliance for small businesses before making new rules. Ideally this means consumers are still protected by necessary regulations while businesses are spared the costs of unnecessary ones. The trouble is, sometimes agencies don’t f…