The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (OSHA-wide)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- OSH Act §§ 5(a)(1), 8; 29 C.F.R. § 1910.502; EO 13999
- Issued
- 2021-07-07 July 7, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07-07 ('EFFECTIVE DATE: July 7, 2021') (read as 2021-07-07)
- End
- cancelled January 2025 (per prior research) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- July 7, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- OSHA offices; employers in targeted industries (Appendix A: healthcare by NAICS including 621610 Home Health Care Services, 621111, 621210, 622110, 623110; Appendix B non-healthcare)
- Functions reached
- EMP/HR/IC in the targeted industries throughout 2021Q3
- Collection
- Federal health, safety and transport layer FED-A
Operative words
This revised Direction describes policies and procedures for implementing a National Emphasis Program (NEP) to ensure that employees in high-hazard industries or work tasks are protected from the hazard of contracting SARS-CoV-2... The NEP targets establishments that have workers with increased potential exposure to this hazard, and that puts the largest number of workers at serious risk. In addition, this NEP includes an added focus to ensure that workers are protected from retaliation... This Direction applies OSHA-wide. [References:] Presidential Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety, January 21, 2021.
Enforcement
Programmed inspections; ETS citations per DIR 2021-02 in covered healthcare settings; general duty clause elsewhere
Notes
Issued in the first week of 2021Q3 and in force for the whole quarter: a federal enforcement program singling out health care, meat and poultry processing, warehousing, grocery, restaurants and other industries for programmed COVID-19 inspections.
Retrieval note493110 appears in Appendix A (the revised NEP's only target-industry appendix; the former Appendix B was deleted).