OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard

As part of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) commitment to protect workers and deliver stronger worker safety requirements, the agency has issued a COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) that establishes new requirements to protect workers from exposure to the coronavirus in all settings, with some exceptions, where any employee provides healthcare services or healthcare support services. This blog will go over some of the requirements for the new healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard and will take 10 minutes to read.