you are seeing the same framing here. can the system in this country handle even a testing the mandate at this point? it is still in a lot of places, challenging to get tested on a regular basis. you know, it is absolutely challenging, and we have to work it, and you know, increase the amount of tests available, but it is certainly do-able to have every employer to work out a system for themselves, and their employees to make sure that they are not infectious. over time, it is going to make a difference. so why stop with employers with 100 or more employees and why not include everybody. i absolutelying a free with you. i think that the white house is going to figure out it is harder to involve smaller employee, and osha has never separated large employers with smaller employers when there is a safe hazard and every employer should be safe
that will take some weeks to do will not require vaccines. and that is important thing. it has been sort of misstated. what this regulation will do is to tell the employers to keep the workplace safe. and an important way to do that in the pandemic is to make sure that people who could be infectious are not coming into the workplace and spreading the virus. and so the rule is going to tell the employers that you have to figure out who is vaccinated, who has tested negative, and they can be allowed in, and the people who are not, they can coming into the workplace and have alternative work arrangements, but your job as an employer under this new osha rule is to keep the workplace safe. that framing is so interesting and so important. perhaps you were not dialed in, but the top of the show, we had a democratic governor and lieutenant governor describing this as a testing mandate and not a vaccination mandate, and
all over the states where they say that you have no right to require the vaccines, and to test over and over, and the federal government trumps all of the state rules. when osha says that this is what must happen in this workplace, if that is covered by federal osha, and the state law that says that you cannot ask about the vaccination, it is in the constitution, and so many, many employers are extremely relieved. they have wanted to do this, and they want to make sure that the workers are comfortable coming back to work, and so many workers are hesitant to come back in, because they are worried about being exposed, and it is something that most businesses will want to do right now even before the rule officially goes into place. david michaels, who knew that we could have such a interesting conversation about osha and workplace safety regulations. i appreciate you asking me to come on. thank you.
whether it is a small or large facility. that is interesting because there is a interesting concept around this idea as we are watching the president come down in boise, idaho, while we are discussing this whether the measures of the testing or vaccinations could be enforced. you said on twitter, you don t have to enforce 100 million cases of these, and could you explain how enforcement works in a situation like this. the government regulations are self-enforced in that every employer has hr staffs and attorneys who says this is what the law does, and this what you have to do. so employers before osha issues rule will be working on to make sure that we are in compliance with the law. that is what they do. beyond that, osha will do some infections, and the workhe w