The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will proceed with three rulemakings focused on the healthcare industry—standards for COVID-19, infectious diseases, and workplace violence—the Department of Labor (DOL) announced as part of the fall 2022 unified regulatory agenda unveiled January 4.
The agency also is moving forward with developing a federal heat illness prevention standard, according to Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh’s statement of regulatory priorities for OSHA and the rest of the DOL.
The healthcare COVID-19 final rule is undergoing regulatory review at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). The OIRA continues to schedule stakeholder meetings regarding the final rule, which is based on OSHA’s 2021 healthcare emergency temporary standard (ETS), but the agency considered changes and updates, possibly making the rule more performance-based than specification-based. The agency also weighed whether to exclude areas of healthcare facilities where workers are unlikely to have contact with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19.
OSHA will propose an infectious diseases rulemaking to protect employees in health care and other high-risk environments from exposure to and transmission of persistent and new infectious diseases, according to Walsh’s statement of regulatory priorities. The rulemaking would focus on exposures to infectious diseases that include chickenpox and shingles (varicella disease), measles,...
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