On Jan. 21, President Biden issued an executive order directing OSHA by the end of January to come up with a new and extensive 6,000-word COVID-19 guidance document for employers—which it did—as well ...

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 ...

OSHA Ends COVID-19 Healthcare Rulemaking The agency’s focus now shifts to broader infectious disease protections in healthcare. By Robert Yaniz Jr. Jan 17, 2025 OSHA has officially ended its ...

In June 2021, OSHA issued an ETS to protect workers in healthcare settings from COVID-19 exposure, which implemented additional recordkeeping and reporting requirements for healthcare employers.

Some 100 million American workers are expected to be impacted by the Biden administration's new workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandate come January, under a sweeping new plan that labels coronavirus ...

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.

To help control the spread of COVID-19, the office said OSHA should consider whether COVID-19 should be classified as a “grave danger” and reconsider whether an ETS would be necessary to protect ...

The agency believes it will be more beneficial to adopt a standard that would provide protections to healthcare workers from exposure to several infectious diseases, including COVID-19 and future ...

Like the OSHA mandate, the HHS rule requires health care workers to be fully vaccinated by Jan. 4, 2022. Biden's COVID-19 strategy ...

By Stasia DeMarco Feb 25, 2025 The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) is advising employers that most of its COVID-19 Prevention Non-Emergency Standards ended this week.

Thousands have complained to OSHA about unsafe working conditions due to Covid-19. OSHA has not inspected a single workplace. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Deborah Berkowitz, a former agency official.