{"id":"AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-022","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States Department of Labor, OSHA (federal agency)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION","eco":"","issuer":"OSHA Directorate of Enforcement Programs","authority":"29 U.S.C. 657, 658","instrument":"Memorandum, Enforcement Guidance on Decontamination of Filtering Facepiece Respirators in Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Apr. 24, 2020)","title":"Enforcement Guidance on Decontamination of Filtering Facepiece Respirators in Healthcare During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic","dateIssued":"2020-04-24","effective":"2020-04-24","end":"Continued until the healthcare ETS framework (June 2021)","startDate":"2020-04-24","endDate":"2021-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["EMP","HC","SUPPLY"],"addressees":["healthcare employers","OSHA field staff"],"clause":"This memorandum provides interim guidance to Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHOs) for enforcing the Respiratory Protection standard, 29 CFR 1910.134, with regard to the reuse of filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) that have been decontaminated... during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.","enforcement":"Citation discretion under 29 U.S.C. 658","functions":["IC crisis-capacity respirator reuse in hospitals, nursing homes, dental and home health","SC"],"notes":"Federal acknowledgment that healthcare employers were decontaminating and reusing single-use respirators under crisis conditions in April 2020.","sourceUrl":"https://www.osha.gov/memos/2020-04-24/enforcement-guidance-decontamination-filtering-facepiece-respirators-healthcare","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":205164,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION","url":"/library/AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-022","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-022","citation":"OSHA Directorate of Enforcement Programs, Memorandum, Enforcement Guidance on Decontamination of Filtering Facepiece Respirators in Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Apr. 24, 2020) (Ex. AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-022)","stateName":"","related":["AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-018","AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-017"]}