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OSHA Vows Virus Enforcement Discretion For ‘Good Faith’ Compliance


April 17, 2020 at 05:23 PM
OSHA is promising to exercise “discretion in enforcement” if employers are unable to comply with various testing, training, inspection and other safety mandates due to the COVID-19 pandemic, writing in a new memo that there will be no penalties for those violations as long as businesses make “good faith” attempts to comply.

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