OSHA has released a new regulatory interpretation letter that says employers may allow workers who maintain facial hair because of a disability or closely-held religious belief to use loose-fitting powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) as alternatives to fitted N95 masks to protect against COVID-19 exposure.
September 18, 2026
OSHA has released a new regulatory interpretation letter that says employers may allow workers who maintain facial hair because of a disability or closely-held religious belief to use loose-fitting powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) as alternatives to fitted N95 masks to protect against COVID-19 exposure.
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OSHA is providing new guidance for employers to review workers’ self-administered COVID-19 tests under its pandemic emergency temporary standard (ETS), warning that while such tests can satisfy the rule’s requirement for weekly testing of unvaccinated employees they must be either read or observed by a third party.
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OSHA is providing new guidance for employers to review workers’ self-administered COVID-19 tests under its pandemic emergency temporary standard (ETS), warning that while such tests can satisfy the rule’s requirement for weekly testing of unvaccinated employees they must be either read or observed by a third party.
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OSHA is providing new guidance for employers to review workers’ self-administered COVID-19 tests under its pandemic emergency temporary standard (ETS), warning that while such tests can satisfy the rule’s requirement for weekly testing of unvaccinated employees they must be either read or observed by a third party.
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OSHA has confirmed that it is withdrawing most of its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) for healthcare facilities but says it still plans a permanent rulemaking for the sector and will continue enforcement action in the interim under the OSH Act’s general duty clause.
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OSHA has confirmed that it is withdrawing most of its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) for healthcare facilities but says it still plans a permanent rulemaking for the sector and will continue enforcement action in the interim under the OSH Act’s general duty clause.
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OSHA has confirmed that it is withdrawing most of its COVID-19 emergency temporary standard (ETS) for healthcare facilities but says it still plans a permanent rulemaking for the sector and will continue enforcement action in the interim under the OSH Act’s general duty clause.
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EPA and several major tech companies have joined with an environmental group to spearhead a program aimed at reducing workers’ exposure to toxic chemicals in the electronics sector’s supply chain, with the first round of priority chemicals identifying substances like methylene chloride that are already subject to EPA regulation under TSCA.
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The Supreme Court announced Dec. 22 that it will hear oral argument Jan. 7 in litigation over both OSHA’s vaccine-or-test emergency temporary standard (ETS) for large employers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate for many health workers, linking the two high-profile challenges to federal pandemic powers.
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