OSHA Seeks To Renew COVID-19 ICR Despite Plans To Withdraw Standard

OSHA is seeking to renew an information collection request (ICR) related to COVID-19 reporting and recordkeeping requirements for healthcare employees to ensure compliance with Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) mandates even as the agency has stopped enforcing the requirements and plans to withdraw them through a rulemaking. A rulemaking to remove the reporting and recordkeeping requirements will take time, and “[t]o ensure full compliance with the technical requirements of the PRA during this interim period, [the Labor Department (DOL)] seeks PRA...