{"id":570,"date":"2020-04-07T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=570"},"modified":"2022-06-05T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T22:29:20","slug":"new-osha-interim-guidelines-for-workplace-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/new-osha-interim-guidelines-for-workplace-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"New OSHA Interim Guidelines for Workplace Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The USDOL\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued interim \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/Publications\/OSHA3990.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19<\/a>\u201d (March 2020, outlining measures employers can implement, including engineering controls, administrative controls, safe work practices, and providing personal protective equipment (PPE). To help employers determine appropriate precautions, the guidelines classify employers\u2019 risk categories (Very High Risk, High Risk, Medium Risk, Lower Risk) based on worker risk of occupational exposure to COVID-19.<br>OSHA has also recently issued<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>interim guidance on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/memos\/2020-04-03\/enforcement-guidance-respiratory-protection-and-n95-shortage-due-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extended use and reuse of respirators<\/a><\/li><li>interim guidance on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/memos\/2020-04-03\/enforcement-guidance-use-respiratory-protection-equipment-certified-under\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">respirators certified under other countries\u2019 standards<\/a><\/li><li>a new poster titled \u201cTen Steps All Workplaces Can Take to Reduce Risk of Exposure to Coronavirus,\u201d available for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/Publications\/OSHA3994.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">download<\/a>&nbsp;from the OSHA website<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USDOL\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued interim \u201cGuidance on Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19\u201d (March 2020, outlining measures employers can implement, including engineering controls, administrative controls, safe work practices, and providing personal protective equipment (PPE). To help employers determine appropriate precautions, the guidelines classify employers\u2019 risk categories (Very High Risk, High Risk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}