The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- OSH Act secs. 8 and 17; Field Operations Manual
- Issued
- 2021-07-07 July 7, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07-07
- End
- Extended and revised Mar. 2022 and beyond (post-period) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- July 7, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rules
- Addressees
- OSHA area offices; employers in Appendix A targeted industries including NAICS 561320 Temporary Help Services
- Functions reached
- PL temporary help placements (the targeted industry)
- HR
- OP
- Collection
- Staffing and Support Services SEC-19
Operative words
Some industries within Appendix A, Table 1, i.e., Offices of Physicians... and within Appendix A, Table 2, Postal Service NAICS 49910, Temporary Help Services NAICS 561320, Full-Service Restaurants... are not automatically included in the ListGen Infogroup. OSA has excluded these NAICS to avoid overwhelming Master Lists with the high numbers of establishments within those sectors. Area offices may continue to use discretion based on local information pertaining to COVID-19-related workplace exposures... several targeted industries for the COVID-19 NEP listed in Appendix A were on the annual appropriations exemption list... such as... NAICS 561320 Temporary Help Services
Enforcement
Programmed inspections; citations under the general duty clause and applicable standards
Notes
Enforcement posture only, pleaded as the regulator's own judgment that temporary help services were a COVID-19 exposure priority in Q3 2021; never asserted as an order closing or modifying operations.
Retrieval noteText read; NAICS 561320 appears in Appendix A, Table 2 and in the exemption note.