Flash: Here Are the Emergency COVID Regs

The Standards Board will vote soon on this extensive set of rules. Here is the proposed regulation and how you can weigh in – but you’d better do it quickly because the vote is just about here. Cal-OSHA Reporter

Employee struck by forklift at Maine distribution center

An employee of the Walmart Distribution Center in Lewiston, Maine, was hospitalized with unknown injuries Wednesday afternoon after he was struck by a forklift in the center’s parking lot. CentralMaine

Whistleblower retaliation complaints have gone unanswered, says NELP official

Fed-OSHA has resolved only a small fraction of whistleblower complaints since the pandemic began, according to the director of the worker health and safety program at the National Employment Law Project. Federal News Network [with audio]

How much reuse can N95s and surgical masks endure?

Can a dental team safely clean and reuse N95 masks that they’ve been wearing daily, with surgical masks over them? Dentistry iQ

Kansas City PD experiencing COVID-19 outbreak

An outbreak of the coronavirus at the Kansas City Police Department has 54 police officers in quarantine and 18 who are still recovering, the KCPD’s chief announced last week. At a recent meeting, some reported lack of social distancing and mask-wearing by officers, despite an ongoing public health mandate. KCUR

Over half of Hawaii’s COVID-19 claims initially denied

Nationally, employees have struggled to prove that COVID-19 is qualified as a workplace injury, according to an investigation by FairWarning. The coronavirus is mainly caught through airborne respiratory droplets, which can make it hard to prove where an employee got sick. Honolulu Civil Beat