OSHA Releases Vaccination & Testing Emergency Temporary Standard


The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has issued its much anticipated mandatory vaccination and testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS).

Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) is reviewing the ETS and will conduct a webinar on:

 

Additional Resources

A White House Fact Sheet on the ETS

Excerpt taken from White House Fact Sheet: First, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is announcing the details of a requirement for employers with 100 or more employees to ensure each of their workers is fully vaccinated or tests for COVID-19 on at least a weekly basis. The OSHA rule will also require that these employers provide paid-time for employees to get vaccinated, and ensure all unvaccinated workers wear a face mask in the workplace. OSHA has a strong 50-year record of requiring employers to take common sense actions to prevent workers from getting sick or injured on the job. This rule will cover 84 million employees.

Second, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) at the Department of Health and Human Services is announcing the details of its requirement that health care workers at facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid are fully vaccinated. The rule applies to more than 17 million workers at approximately 76,000 health care facilities, including hospitals and long-term care facilities.

OSHA’s ETS (Emergency Temporary Standard) Material

The ETS on Vaccination and Testing was officially filed in the Office of the Federal Register on November 4, 2021.

The ETS that will be published in the Federal Register