Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Safety and Health Codes Board
 
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12/19/20  3:27 pm
Commenter: Beverly Wood

Emergency Temporary Standard - permanent?
 

The temporary standard enacted in late July 2020 was helpful in making workplaces open for business while protecting employees.  The six-month standard needs to continue!  Vaccines may be on their way but not fast enough and with enough uncertainty that herd immunity is not right around the corner.  Thinking even longer-term, these standards are also useful for other airborne, communicable diseases.  There are provisions for situations of unattainable and cost-prohibitive PPE to protect business owners from unwarranted litigation but does make them accountable for non-pandemic care for their employees health.  Please consider making this (or something very like it) a permanent standard that will improve community health even after COVID is under control.

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