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GAO Report Urges OSHA To Consider Disease Standard For Meat Plants


June 21, 2023 at 06:00 PM
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging OSHA to craft a safety standard for meat and poultry workers that would cover infectious disease in a new report that says the agency’s “continuing challenges” in the sector have been deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that it “missed opportunities” to collaborate with other authorities to address them.

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