As a result, effective January 15, 2025, OSHA has decided to terminate its COVID-19 rulemaking and focus instead on this broader infectious diseases standard, rather than a disease-specific approach.

Following the end of the COVID-19 national emergency in April 2023, OSHA announced it would scrap the rulemaking and focus on a wider infectious diseases rule for healthcare.

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 ...

OSHA has also previously published revised enforcement guidance detailing how OSHA will enforce the recordkeeping requirements of 29 CFR 1904 for employee coronavirus illnesses for all employers.

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 ...

In the meantime, however, it is advisable that California employers: 1. Continue to log COVID-19 cases through February 3, 2026, as required under the Cal/OSHA COVID-19 non-emergency rules; and 2.