OSHA Urges Health Care Facilities and Providers to Implement Health and Safety Measures

In honor of National Caregivers Day on Friday, February 18, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a statement urging protection for health care workers. OSHA acknowledged that it was working on a permanent regulatory solution to protect health care workers from COVID-19, especially in the wake of evidence of surging injury and illness rates in 2020. OSHA’s ongoing work to create a new regulation would replace the health care Emergency Temporary Standard, which was withdrawn in December 2021.