OSHA Targets High-Risk Workplaces in New Covid-19 Initiative (2)

The U.S. Labor Department’s workplace safety agency is rolling out a national emphasis program to focus its enforcement on employers that place the largest number of workers at “serious risk” of contracting Covid-19 while on the job.

“This deadly pandemic has taken a staggering toll on U.S. workers and their families,” Jim Frederick, the principal assistant deputy security of labor for occupational safety and health, said in a statement Friday. “We have a moral obligation to do what we can to protect workers, especially for the many who have no other protection.”

The new Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiative ...