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OSHA Says No New Safeguards Needed To Handle Coronavirus Waste


March 23, 2020 at 02:08 PM
OSHA has reworked weeks-old guidance for waste companies where workers could handle material contaminated by COVID-19 to say that the virus “does not require special precautions” other than those usually needed for waste handling, reinforcing claims by waste firms that their workers are already protected.

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