A new OSHA Covid-19 standard to protect health-care workers should be completed in six to nine months, the agency said Friday.
James Frederick, deputy assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, revealed the timeline in a statement that is part of the agency’s legal defense of its Dec. 27 decision to cancel the health-care Covid-19 emergency temporary standard.
The claim was made in response to a lawsuit filed Jan. 5 by several labor unions asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to revive the emergency standard.
If the unions prevail, hospitals, nursing homes, ...