Statement
A Petition to Secretary Scalia for an OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard for Infectious Disease
… Dear Secretary Scalia: The world is on the verge of a deadly coronavirus pandemic due to COVID-19 and the disease is now spreading quickly through the United States. The impact of the outbreak has already been … the discretion to implement, ignore, or selectively follow the guidelines issued by the agencies. Workers have the right to consistent levels of protection that will be implemented in all workplaces where occupational exposure to the … to COVID-19 or if they have a false sense of protection, they may infect the patients they care for or not come to work, which will jeopardize public health and the control of exposure to the pathogen. This is also true for transportation …