Tag: PPE

CDC Interim Mask Guidance Update

Jon Redmond /May 20, 2021

On May 13, 2021, the CDC issued updated guidance, “Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People”. With this updated guidance ”fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a…

OSHA Implements COVID National Emphasis Program (NEP)

Jon Redmond /March 24, 2021

Responding to President Biden’s Executive Order of January 2021, OSHA announced, effective for the next 12 months (beginning March 12, 2021), their National Emphasis Program (NEP) for COVID-19. The OSHA…

OSHA, CDC to Issue Guidance on Exposure Due to Aerosol Transmission of SARS CoV-2

Jon Redmond /March 10, 2021

In response to the delays of federal agencies in acknowledging and taking action on the science confirming the capability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to spread through inhalation, the American Industrial…

CA, MI, OR, VA: Benchmarks for OSHA Emergency COVID-19 Standard

Jon Redmond /February 10, 2021

Less than 24 hours after inauguration, President Biden issued an executive order tasking the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to consider the necessity of an emergency COVID-19 standard; to…

OBM Issues Guidance on Pandemic Federal Workplace Safety

Jon Redmond /January 28, 2021

Federal Workplace Safety Guidance Memo Aimed at Protecting Workers from COVID-19 The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies…