The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- Executive Order 13999; 29 U.S.C. 654(a)(1)
- Issued
- 2021-08-13 Aug. 13, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-13
- End
- in force through the end of 2021Q3 and after (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 13, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- Character
- agency guidance recommendation
- Collection
- Standing duties: Federal layer DUT-FED
Operative words
Guidance posted January 29, 2021; Updated June 10, [2021]; Summary of changes August 13, 2021... [recommendations for workers who are unvaccinated or otherwise at-risk, and] new guidance involving workers who are fully vaccinated but [in areas of substantial or high transmission].
Penalty
as the general duty clause provides
What it required
Recommendation: following the CDC's July 27, 2021 change, OSHA recommended masks indoors for all workers in areas of substantial or high transmission and continued protections for unvaccinated and at-risk workers; the general duty clause remained the mandatory floor the guidance restates. Character as recorded: agency_guidance_recommendation (incorporating the general duty clause by reference).
Retrieval noteTogether with Exs. DUT-FED-010 and -072 it gives the three versions in force in 2021Q1-Q3.