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The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is a United States federal agency established in 1970 by the Occupational Health and Safety Act. OSHA is part of the Department of Labor and is charged with assuring healthy, safe, working environments. OSHA sets and enforces safety standards and policies. Examples of OSHA's duties include setting limits on workers' exposure to hazardous substances, ensuring workers have access to safety information and protective equipment, and providing employers and workers proper training to prevent dangerous conditions. less -

OSHA Terminates COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard for Healthcare Workers

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 3/5/2025

Is COVID-19 still a thing, and does OSHA care about it? Yes and yes. We all know that COVID-19 is still around. On the OSHA front, the agency seems to be focused less exclusively on COVID-19 and plans to take a broader...more

OSHA Withdraws Proposed Rules Involving COVID-19 and Infectious Diseases

Littler on 1/22/2025

Last week, OSHA published a notice in the Federal Register that it was withdrawing its proposed rule, Occupational Exposure to COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings, effective immediately. OSHA explained it was withdrawing the...more

States Fill Gaps in Hospital Workplace Violence Laws—Requiring Law Enforcement Officers, Weapons Detection Screening Policies in...

Epstein Becker & Green on 10/24/2024

While we wait for long-anticipated federal regulations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) addressing the issue of workplace violence in health care, activity continues at the state level....more

U.S. Court of Appeals Finds “No Clear Duty” for OSHA To Issue Permanent COVID-19 Healthcare Standard

Snell & Wilmer on 9/13/2022

In June 2021, the United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“Fed OSHA”) enacted a COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) governing the health care industry. The ETS had a...more

OSHA Reaffirms Arrival of Permanent Healthcare Industry COVID-19 Standard

McDermott Will & Emery on 3/24/2022

On March 22, 2022, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a limited reopening of the rulemaking record for the COVID-19 emergency temporary standard for the healthcare industry, originally...more

OSHA Taking Comments on Proposed Permanent Healthcare COVID-19 Standard

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis on 3/23/2022

OSHA has partially reopened the rulemaking record and scheduled an informal public hearing to seek comments on several topics relating to the development of a final standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support...more

AGG Food & Drug Newsletter - January 2022

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 2/1/2022

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more

Health Care E-Note - January 2022

Burr & Forman on 1/25/2022

HELPFUL HINTS - The Federal No Surprises Act The Federal No Surprises Act (the “Act”) became fully effective on January 1, 2022. The Act protects enrollees in group and individual market plans (including ERISA plans) and...more

Virginia’s Safety and Health Codes Board Adopts OSHA'S Emergency Temporary Standard to Protect Healthcare and Healthcare Support...

ArentFox Schiff on 8/5/2021

Effective August 2, 2021, Virginia’s Health and Safety Codes Board adopted OSHA’s, June 21, 2021, Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from occupational exposure to...more

OSHA Issues COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/17/2021

On June 10, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) issued a long-awaited Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) to protect health care workers from COVID-19. This new temporary standard applies to...more

OSHA Issues COVID-19 ETS for Healthcare Settings

Perkins Coie on 6/16/2021

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued the COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) on June 10, 2021. The ETS applies to workplace settings where professional healthcare...more

OSHA’s New Emergency Temporary Standard to Protect Healthcare Workers

Brooks Pierce on 6/15/2021

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently issued a COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for the healthcare industry. The new standard focuses on protecting healthcare...more

New from OSHA on COVID-19: A COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard for Healthcare and Revised Guidance for All Other Employers

Brooks Pierce on 6/11/2021

Today, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for the healthcare industry. This ETS mandates the development and implementation of a...more

Back to Business: Five Developments Impacting Health Care Employers - Take 5 Newsletter August 2019

Epstein Becker & Green on 8/30/2019

As summer winds down, the challenges impacting health care employers in 2019 continue to heat up. These challenges include ongoing developments regarding marijuana legalization, employee resistance to vaccination mandates,...more

Workplace Violence Prevention in Healthcare and Social Service: Calling OSHA to Action

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/30/2018

On November 16, 2018, Representative Joe Courtney (D-CT) introduced House Resolution 7141, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act. The bill would force the Occupational Safety and...more

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