OSHA’s addition to its COVID-19 FAQs regarding respirators and particle size posits, “will an N95 respirator protect the wearer from the virus that causes COVID-19?” OSHA answers that an N95 ...

Responding to what it says are “incorrect claims” that N95 respirators are not effective against the virus that causes Covid-19, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health ...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on how N95 respirators effectively protect wearers from ...

Healthcare employers need to be on top of making sure they follow the rules when making new employees – even temporary employees – wear N95 respirator masks. OSHA issued two citations to federally ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) recently released new guidance regarding face coverings and respiratory protection for the long-term care industry during the COVID-19 public ...

The misconception that coronavirus particles are too small to be filtered by the N95 respirator is corrected in the new set of Frequently Asked Questions. OSHA published a set of Frequently Asked ...

Notably, all citations issued to practices by OSHA in the past year were related to respiratory protection, Govoni said. In one case, workers wore required N95 respirators during aerosol-generating ...

Assembly Ag Chair Robert Rivas of Hollister has co-authored a bill that would charge Cal/OSHA with establishing a stockpile of N95 respirators to deploy to farmworkers working under wildfire smoke.

The Senate Ag Committee released budget reconciliation text this week that includes a boost to some key farm bill programs and a less aggressive state SNAP cost share proposal than the House. Sen.