Biden Backs Bill To Require OSHA Workplace Violence Policy By 2022

The White House is backing House Democrats’ bill that would give OSHA a one-year deadline to craft a workplace violence standard for health care and social services workers, after a long-pending rulemaking process stalled during the Trump administration, though the legislation faces an uncertain path in the Senate. In an April 13 statement of administration policy (SAP) , the Biden administration says it “strongly supports” passing H.R. 1195, which would require OSHA to enact an interim final standard for preventing...