Employers Should ‘Have a Plan’ for Coming Covid-19 Inspections

The hundreds of thousands of employers covered by OSHA’s Covid-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate should be ready for inspections starting Jan. 10, attorneys and consultants are warning.

While the Occupational Safety and Health Administration won’t require employers to have workers fully vaccinated or tested at least weekly until Feb. 9, OSHA can start citing employers earlier for other violations of the Covid-19 emergency temporary standard.

“If you are doing nothing to comply, you may be subject to a citation,” said former OSHA official Richard Fairfax, who retired in 2014 as the agency’s career-service deputy administrator and is now a National Safety Council ...