{"id":"AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-015","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (federal agency)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION","eco":"","issuer":"OSHA, Directorate of Enforcement Programs (Patrick J. Kapust, Acting Director), to Regional Administrators and State Plan Designees","authority":"29 U.S.C. 657, 658; Field Operations Manual","instrument":"Memorandum, Temporary Enforcement Guidance - Healthcare Respiratory Protection Annual Fit-Testing for N95 Filtering Facepieces During the COVID-19 Outbreak (Mar. 14, 2020)","title":"Temporary Enforcement Guidance - Healthcare Respiratory Protection Annual Fit-Testing for N95 Filtering Facepieces During the COVID-19 Outbreak","dateIssued":"2020-03-14","effective":"2020-03-14","end":"Superseded by the July 6, 2021 rescission of COVID-19 enforcement memoranda for healthcare (per the ETS) and by the NEP; expanded to all industries Apr. 8, 2020 (Ex. 018)","startDate":"2020-03-14","endDate":"2021-07-06","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["EMP","HC","SUPPLY"],"addressees":["OSHA Regional Administrators and State Plan Designees","healthcare employers subject to 29 C.F.R. 1910.134"],"clause":"This memorandum provides temporary enforcement guidance... for enforcing the annual fit-testing requirements of the Respiratory Protection standard, 29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2), with regard to supply shortages of N95 filtering facepiece respirators... during the COVID-19 outbreak. (memorandum dated March 14, 2020)","enforcement":"OSHA citations under 29 U.S.C. 658 for 29 C.F.R. 1910.134 violations; the memorandum directs CSHOs to exercise discretion where employers make good-faith efforts","functions":["IC infection control and respirator programs in hospitals, clinics, dental offices, long-term care","SC PPE supply (N95 shortage recited by the federal government)","HR training and fit-testing"],"notes":"The first federal workplace instrument of the pandemic; a governmental recognition on March 14, 2020 that the N95 supply shortage prevented compliance with a binding standard.","sourceUrl":"https://www.osha.gov/memos/2020-03-14/temporary-enforcement-guidance-healthcare-respiratory-protection-annual-fit","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":168025,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION","url":"/library/AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-015","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-015","citation":"OSHA, Directorate of Enforcement Programs (Patrick J. Kapust, Acting Director), to Regional Administrators and State Plan Designees, Memorandum, Temporary Enforcement Guidance - Healthcare Respiratory Protection Annual Fit-Testing for N95 Filtering Facepieces During the COVID-19 Outbreak (Mar. 14, 2020) (Ex. AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-015)","stateName":"","related":["DUT-FED-004","DUT-FL-015","DUT-LA-010","DUT-OK-012"]}