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OSHA Issues New Guidance for Respiratory Protection Amidst the N95 Shortage

April 10, 2020 Michael Gerhardt OSHA Rulings, Workplace Safety No Comments

On April 3 OSHA issued interim guidance to Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHOs) for enforcing the Respiratory Protection standard, 29 CFR § 1910.134, and certain other health standards, with regard to supply shortages of disposable N95 filtering facepiece respirators. Specifically, it outlines enforcement discretion to permit the extended use and reuse of respirators, as […]

OSHA Issues Immediate Guidance Allowing Employers to Use Respirators from Other Countries

April 5, 2020 Michael Gerhardt OSHA Rulings, Workplace Safety No Comments

In the latest effort to implement President Trump’s Memorandum on Making General Use Respirators Available, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued interim enforcement guidance regarding disposable N95 filtering facepiece respirators (N95 FFRs) that are either certified under certain standards of other countries or jurisdictions or certified under other […]