OSHA has just announced it is partially reopening the record on the rulemaking for the permanent healthcare COVID-19 standard known as the rule on Occupational Exposure to COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings. Comments are due by April 22, 2022. The docket number is OSHA-2020-0004. Following the written comments, there will also be a hearing held online
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Virginia Repeals Workplace COVID-19 Standard, Replaces It With Guidance
By Courtney M. Malveaux on
Virginia has repealed its first-in-the-nation standard on COVID-19 in the workplace.
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Virginia Drafts COVID-19 Guidance As It Mulls Eliminating Standard
By Courtney M. Malveaux on
Virginia has drafted workplace guidance in the event it strikes down its first-in-the-nation COVID-19 standard.
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OSHA Launches COVID-19 Inspection Initiative for Healthcare Employers
With its new inspection initiative, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is taking steps to ensure certain healthcare employers continue to protect workers against COVID-19, even as falling case numbers across the country have prompted many state and local agencies to withdraw mask mandates and other COVID-19 precautions.
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OSHA Withdraws Vaccine-Or-Test Emergency Temporary Standard for COVID-19
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has withdrawn its enforcement of the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring most employers to mandate COVID-19 vaccines or tests for employees.
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U.S. Supreme Court Puts OSHA COVID-19 Vaccine-Or-Test ETS Back on Ice
In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS).
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SCOTUS Questioning Suggests OSHA ETS is Squeezing an Elephant into a Mousehole
By Melanie L. Paul & Katharine C. Weber on
Posted in Articles, COVID-19, OSHA Enforcement, OSHA ETS, OSHA Legislation, OSHA Rulemaking, Vaccine
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the OSHA ETS case. Of course one never knows how the Court will rule, but if the Justices’ questions are any indication, there could be a 6-3 split in favor of a stay, with Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, Justice Gorsuch, Justice Kavanaugh, and…
OSHA Withdraws COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard, Vows to Use General Duty Clause
By Courtney M. Malveaux & Melanie L. Paul on
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced that it is withdrawing most of the Emergency Temporary Standard for healthcare employers (Healthcare ETS) it promulgated more than six months ago.
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After OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard for Healthcare Employers Expired …
More than six months after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgated an Emergency Temporary Standard for healthcare employers (Healthcare ETS), OSHA announced its intentions to propose an infectious diseases standard covering all industry sectors in April 2022. The agency said the new standard will address airborne, droplet, and non-bloodborne contact diseases.
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Supreme Court to Consider Arguments on Pulling Plug on OSHA COVID-19 ETS
The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled expedited arguments on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision to lift the Fifth Circuit’s stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS).
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