Cal/OSHA Draft Permanent COVID Standard Aims For Flexibility, Streamlining

California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) is floating a draft permanent COVID-19 worker-safety standard that aims to provide more compliance flexibility and streamlined requirements compared with its pandemic emergency temporary standard (ETS), in part by incorporating some core elements of the policy into its existing Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP). “The goal is to make the regulations more flexible,” in part by “building in more performance standards” rather than overly prescriptive requirements in many situations, said Corey Friedman, a Cal/OSHA attorney, during...