On June 3, 2021, California's Occupational Safety &
Healthy Standards Board approved significant revisions to the
initial COVID-19-related
Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) originally implemented on
November 19, 2020 (see Perkins Coie's previous blog post
here). The amended regulations can be found
here and will likely become effective on June 15, 2021, pending
review by the California Office of Administrative Law—to be
completed within 10 days—and will stay in place for 180
days.
Importantly, physical distancing will be required in most indoor
workplace situations until July 31 and masking will be required
unless all employees at a worksite are fully vaccinated for the
foreseeable future. Notably, the revised Cal/OSHA regulations are
far more conservative than the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) guidance or even California law after the mask
mandate expires on June 15. The Cal/OSHA board only approved the
revised ETS after a marathon public
