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Supreme Court Blocks OSHA’s Vaccination Policy
By Evelyn Witterholt, RCS Reporter. Learn about the recent changes to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s emergency temporary standard for vaccine mandates in the workplace. In November 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it would enact an emergency temporary standard (ETS) for employers to mandate the COVID-19 ...
IRE Updates Regarding COVID-19
By National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA). Learn about new vaccine and mask requirements and on-site COVID-19 testing for IRE 2022 as the Omicron variant surges. If you’re headed to the International Roofing Expo® in New Orleans Feb. 1–3, you should be aware of protocol updates surrounding the uptick in COVID-19 ...
Harness Adds Features to Ease Compliance With OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Standard
The new features to its safety app come as a welcome relief to contractors who are frustrated by the burden of compliance. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace. The ETS establishes ...
Biden Administration Pushes Back Vaccine Deadline for Federal Contractors
By National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA). The new deadline requires federal contractors to be full vaccinated by January 18, 2022. The Biden administration has pushed back the deadline for federal contractors to comply with previously announced COVID-19 vaccine requirements for employees from Dec. 8 to Jan. 18, 2022, according to ...
How Companies Can Respond to the Delta Variant
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Employers will need to continue to be flexible, adaptive and creative in their approaches to COVID-19. Pretty much no one in the United States has been able to get by without feeling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. And now, on top of that, there is the ...
President Biden Issues Sweeping Vaccine Mandate for U.S. Workers
By Trent Cotney, Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. It is still unclear what impact this will have on the construction industry. On Thursday, September 9, President Biden announced the government’s most significant push to vaccinate the country. The proposed rules will require that all companies with more than 100 workers mandate COVID-19 ...
Contractors Struggle as Clients Request 100% Vaccinated Job Sites
By National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA). Construction companies are concerned with how to implement new COVID-19 requirements and worry that mandates will make the labor shortage worse. As the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads throughout the U.S., construction companies must once again follow local mask mandates, practice social distancing on ...
8 OSHA Changes and How They Affect You
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. A look at eight recent and anticipated changes and their impact on the construction industry. Changes at OSHA under the Biden administration, new construction technology on the rise and the impacts of COVID are sending ripple effects through the industry. Here is a look ...
What Does the CDC Guideline Mean for Mask Policies?
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. The CDC says that fully vaccinated people might not need to wear masks anymore, so what does this mean for mask mandates? It has been over a year of mask mandates and recommendations from public health authorities, so when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
Mandatory Vaccinations in the Workplace
The question whether an employer would able to force an employee to be vaccinated has been asked numerous times without any clear and concise answer. ll employers have suffered severe impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, be it because their business has been negatively impacted or be it continued disruptions in ...
