The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
("OSHA") has issued revised guidance regarding how
employers can determine whether a Covid-19 case is work-related
and, thus, recordable.1 The new guidance addresses
workplace exposure issues expected to occur as shelter-in-place
orders are being eased across the country and employees return to
work. OSHA published the guidance on May 19, 2020 and it was
effective May 26, 2020. The new OSHA policies update the guidance
originally issued on April 10, 2020, which required certain
frontline employers to determine whether known cases of Covid-19
among their workforces were recordable work-related illnesses.
Given the large fines that can result from OSHA recordkeeping
violations, employers should be familiar with the updated
guidance.
