A top OSHA official conveyed “serious policy concerns” to the Health and Human Services Department about HHS promoting a mandatory approach to health care worker vaccination for influenza, saying OSHA strongly supports efforts to increase the vaccination rates but does not believe the evidence is sufficient to back requirements that could result in workers being fired. OSHA weighed in, through comments obtained by Inside OSHA Online, on a new draft report by a government panel studying the issue for HHS; the report includes a recommendation that health care employers strongly consider mandated
December 29, 2025