Mary Wilson
Well-known member
Publication Date: 1/15/2025
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor
ACTION: Final rule; termination of rulemaking
SUMMARY: OSHA is terminating its COVID-19 rulemaking.
DATES: Effective dates: The termination of the rulemaking is effective ...
... On June 21, 2021, OSHA issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to protect workers in healthcare settings, finding that COVID-19 presented a grave danger to those workers and that the ETS was necessary to protect them (86 FR 32376).1 As of that date, nearly a half million healthcare workers had contracted COVID-19 and more than 1600 of those workers had died. Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act or Act) (29 U.S.C. 655(c)(3)), the ETS served as a proposed rule for a rulemaking on occupational exposure to COVID-19 in healthcare settings. OSHA is now
terminating the rulemaking via this rule because the public health emergency is over and any ongoing risk by COVID-19 or other coronavirus hazards faced by healthcare workers would be better addressed at this time in a rulemaking addressing infectious diseases more broadly. ...
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-00632.pdf
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor
ACTION: Final rule; termination of rulemaking
SUMMARY: OSHA is terminating its COVID-19 rulemaking.
DATES: Effective dates: The termination of the rulemaking is effective ...
... On June 21, 2021, OSHA issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to protect workers in healthcare settings, finding that COVID-19 presented a grave danger to those workers and that the ETS was necessary to protect them (86 FR 32376).1 As of that date, nearly a half million healthcare workers had contracted COVID-19 and more than 1600 of those workers had died. Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act or Act) (29 U.S.C. 655(c)(3)), the ETS served as a proposed rule for a rulemaking on occupational exposure to COVID-19 in healthcare settings. OSHA is now
terminating the rulemaking via this rule because the public health emergency is over and any ongoing risk by COVID-19 or other coronavirus hazards faced by healthcare workers would be better addressed at this time in a rulemaking addressing infectious diseases more broadly. ...
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-00632.pdf