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Signaling significant regulatory and enforcement changes from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), President Joseph Biden has named a California official to lead the agency.
Biden nominated Douglas Parker, the chief of California’s Department of Industrial Relations Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) on April 9, 2021, to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Workplace Safety and Health to lead OSHA. Parker had represented labor representatives and private and public sector unions as an attorney, and he was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Senior Policy Advisor and Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). Parker left MSHA in 2019 to serve as Executive Director for Cal/OSHA, which advocates health and safety measures for workers.
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On March 12, 2021, OSHA established a 12-month long “National Emphasis Program,” effecting an immediate emphasis on the enforcement of safety standards associated with COVID-19. The “COVID-19 NEP” also creates “an added focus to ensure that workers are protected from retaliation.” OSHA coupled the COVID-19 NEP with an “Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19),” which details how Compliance Safety and Health Officers (“CSHOs”) should handle complaints, referrals, and severe illness reports, including in light of the COVID-19 NEP.
Some may be asking themselves what a National Emphasis Program, or “NEP,” actually is. It is a form of Directive issued by OSHA, which focuses its resources nationwide upon particular hazards and high-hazard industries. For example, in the past, OSHA has issued NEPs on Amputations in Manufacturing Industries, Primary Metal Industries