OSHA excludes construction industry from emergency COVID-19 safety rules

Construction trade groups are praising the Biden Administration’s decision to exclude the construction industry from new safety rules related to COVID-19.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued an Emergency Temporary Standard, or ETS, on Thursday specifically for the health-care industry. In it step, OSHA lays out rules employers will now be required to follow to protect workers from the spread of COVID-19. Some construction groups had feared the ETS would be made to apply to construction workers. Instead, the emergency rule is only for health-care workers.

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