Covid-19 Still an OSHA Priority Even as Masking Guidance Changes

Bruce Rolfsen

Even with masking mandates being lifted in many places, OSHA continues to see Covid-19 as its primary enforcement concern.

“As an agency, we are still going to be focused on Covid-19,” Doug Parker, chief of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said Wednesday.

Parker was speaking in-person to about 200 mostly maskless attorneys attending the American Bar Association’s Occupational Safety and Health Law Committee’s midwinter meeting in Sarasota, Fla. The association required attendees to provide proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test.

The agency’s immediate goal is to issue a permanent health-care Covid-19 rule to replace the withdrawn .

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