Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Safety and Health Codes Board
 
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6/22/20  10:06 am
Commenter: Martha Bryant

Existing OSHA rules are enough - no new / temp regs
 

Existing OSHA guidelines cover the requirement for companies to provide a safe work place.  This information and guidance could possibly have been helpful in February but this is the end of JUNE. MONTHS later, essential businesses that never closed have already figured out what to do.  

The emergency temporary rules create an undue burden on small business to formally create paperwork and policies that we are already handling on our own, because we care about the health and safety of each other and ourselves.  The arbitrary six month expiration of the temporary rules could extend the time we are required to abide by these rules, past when it could become unnecessary. 

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