Megan Baroni, an environmental attorney in Robinson+Cole’s Environmental and Utilities Group, with help from Jonathan Schaefer, a member of the firm’s Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications Group, published the following on Manufacturing Law Blog, discussing Virginia's passing of the first COVID-19 OSHA standard.
While Federal OSHA has issued numerous COVID-related guidance documents, it has declined to issue an enforceable COVID standard. Instead, OSHA continues to reference numerous other statutory and regulatory standards that potentially apply to what OSHA may determine are COVID-related deficiencies in the workplace.