Even without a Covid-19 health-care standard to enforce, OSHA has inspected more hospitals and nursing homes in the first six months of 2022 than it did for all of 2021, agency enforcement numbers show.
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration had inspected 577 general and psychiatric hospitals through June 3, compared with 332 for the entirety of 2021, a Bloomberg Law analysis found. OSHA so far in 2022 also inspected 729 nursing homes and assisted living facilities, up from 442 in 2021.
Most of this year’s inspections came after the agency on March 8 announced a Covid-19 inspection initiative ...
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