Nine months into the pandemic health care workers still find themselves scrambling for PPE, personal protective equipment. The shortages are more and more acute, as cases keep rising in practically every state, as the U.S. gears up to launch a nationwide program of vaccinations, according to a CBS “60 Minutes” report. With no effective federal…

In hospitals, medical clinics, and doctor’s offices across America the need for personal protective equipment, or PPE, has not waned since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to CBS News. Requisite items including N95 respirators, gowns, and nitrile gloves have seen dramatic price increases since March as demand surged and supply levels lagged. A…

A comprehensive and effective workplace safety platform provides businesses the risk mitigation structure they need to maintain successful operations at all locations, according to Supply & Demand Chain Executive The beginning of the year began with increasing international complexities and shipping capacity concerns for many enterprise-caliber organizations. Then the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) hit at the…

Private U.S. companies have the right under the law to require employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, but are unlikely to do so because of the risks of legal and cultural backlash, experts said, according to a Reuters report. Companies are still in the early stages of navigating access and distribution of vaccines against the…

OSHA is being heavily criticized – and has been for months — by the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, labor representatives, and the press for its COVID-19 enforcement. But the Phylmar Regulatory Roundtable (PRR) https://www.phylmar.com/regulatory-roundtable, made up of mostly Fortune 500 companies and utilities, take the view is that OSHA is fulfilling its role by…

Health care personnel and residents of long-term care facilities will be the first groups to be offered the Covid-19 vaccine, according to a new proposal from an independent advisory committee within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and reported by NBC. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met virtually on Tuesday to discuss who…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revised its guidelines for people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Now, instead of the standard 14-day quarantine it has been recommending, the CDC says that potential exposure warrants a quarantine of 10 or seven days, depending on one’s test results and symptoms, according to…

NIOSH has approved – for both personal protection and source control – the first elastomeric half-mask respirator (EHMR) without an exhalation valve, according to the agency. In a Nov. 16 agency news brief, NIOSH acknowledges concerns that filtering facepiece respirators and EHMRs with exhalation valves “may allow unfiltered exhaled air to escape into the environment,” compromising the…

In recent days America’s infection curve has already become a sheer mountain-climber’s cliff with record-breaking case numbers and hospitalizations, according to an article in the Washington Post. If people travel and gather for Christmas as they during the Thanksgiving holiday, health experts project the country’s already catastrophic situation could reach levels where hospitals are forced…

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance to employers to include COVID testing, and it advised that people working in close quarters be tested periodically. However, the federal government does not require employers to offer those tests, according to KHN TV San Francisco. But the board overseeing the California Division of Occupational Safety and…