OSHA has officially ended its efforts to finalize a COVID-19 safety rule for healthcare workers. Launched as an Emergency Temporary Standard in June 2021, the proposal aimed to protect healthcare ...

The U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Jan. 15 terminated its COVID-19 healthcare rulemaking to prioritize completing a broader infectious diseases rule for ...

On June 21, 2021, OSHA issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19. The ETS also served as a proposed rule for a permanent standard to address COVID-19 ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) this week proposed removing COVID-19 recordkeeping requirements for healthcare employers, including the last remaining provisions of its ...

The new FAQs help employers apply the agency’s existing injury and illness recording and reporting requirements to the coronavirus. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health ...

On February 3, 2023, California’s Office of Administrative Law approved Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Non-Emergency Regulation (NER). The NER is now the operative COVID-19 regulation for most California ...

Continue to log COVID-19 cases through February 3, 2026, as required under the Cal/OSHA COVID-19 non-emergency rules; and. 2.

OSHA said it is currently not taking steps to implement or enforce President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for big businesses as long as the mandate is tied up in court.

The last California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 regulation came into effect on February 3, 2023, with provisions scheduled to sunset on February 3, 2025. There ...