Biden Boosts OSHA Virus Enforcement as Vaccines Take Hold (2)

Five months into the Biden administration, changes are beginning to emerge in how the federal government’s occupational safety agency is enforcing its Covid-19 worker-protection mandates.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued more than three times as many violations of the general duty clause, a provision of federal law, than it did during the Trump administration, according to a Bloomberg Law review of OSHA enforcement data. OSHA also has increased the number of inspections of workplaces where Covid-19 could be a hazard, even if an employer or workers haven’t reported complaints to the agency.

The trends mean that employers ...