OSHA Cancels COVID-19 Health Care Worker Rule Development

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Wednesday announced that it is abandoning efforts to draft rules to protect health care workers from COVID-19. "OSHA is now terminating the rulemaking via this rule because the public health emergency is over and any ongoing risk by COVID-19 or other coronavirus hazards faced by health care workers would be better addressed at this time in a rulemaking addressing infectious diseases more broadly," the agency said. OSHA proposed the COVID-19 emergency temporary standards for health care workers in June 2021 but has not e...