Tag: OSHA

  • TAG Responds to Employer’s Questions on the ETS

    Key Points In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we respond to employer questions on the OSHA ETS. Read more below. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, based out of Cincinnati, was selected via lottery by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to hear legal challenges to the OSHA ETS issued on November 5. A three-judge panel…

  • Businesses Likely Not Held to OSHA ETS Deadlines: A Legal Opinion

    Key Points In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the legal opinion from the Littler law firm that businesses will likely not be held to the current OSHA ETS deadlines. Read more below. Pfizer will begin producing its COVID-19 antiviral pill, “to be made and sold inexpensively in 95 poorer nations that are home to…

  • OSHA ETS Temporarily Stayed…and Other COVID News

    Key Points In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the stay of the OSHA ETS, the Pfizer antiviral, and a Science vaccine efficacy study. Read more below. On Saturday, a federal appeals court issued a stay of the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for private companies. In the brief order temporarily blocking the new vaccine rules…

  • OSHA Vaccine/Testing Standards Published

    Key Points In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we include TAG’s weekly matrix information, and discuss the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issuance of the emergency temporary standard (ETS) establishing the requirements for the COVID-19 vaccine/testing mandate for employers with 100 or more employees. Read more below. The CDC has recommended the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine…

  • Vaccine Mandate & Booster Updates

    In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we provide updates on the vaccine mandate and boosters. Read more below. Canada’s government announced last Thursday that it has lifted the “global advisory asking Canadians to avoid non-essential travel outside the country”; however, it still discourages and advises against cruise ship travel. U.S. pharmacies and doctors are now facing…

  • Are you Prepared for the OSHA Vaccine/Testing Standards?

    In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss how to prepare for the OSHA vaccine and testing standards. Read more below. If you’re interested in how the WHO estimates excess COVID-19 deaths, the WHO has published its methodology here. CNBC discusses that if one is fired for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine, depending on a state’s regulations,…

  • New Challenges Continue in Worker Protections

    New Challenges Continue in Worker Protections Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss TAG’s Weekly Matrix, the status of COVID-19 Cases, and what that means. Read more below. Do you want to know when different sectors of the food and agriculture world can be vaccinated? Food manufacturing versus food service versus food retail…

  • OSHA’s New COVID-19 Protection Guidance Document

    Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss OSHA’s new COVID-19 protection guidance document – and what it means to your business. [Read more]. The news OSHA guidance is “intended to informemployers and workers in most workplace settings outside of healthcare to help them identify risks of being exposed to and/or contracting COVID-19 at…