Policy Matters Podcast - Episode 19: Vaccination Celebration! OSHA Implications for Vaccine Programs

Policy issues often have long term widespread and pervasive impact on businesses. Not only can new governmental policies significantly affect the climate for business innovation and growth, they create precedents that affect future legislation and potentially spread across jurisdictions.

Each installment of the Policy Matters Podcast will provide timely updates regarding potential adverse impacts on benefits that policy changes can have on industry growth and offer a preview of what’s next in the competitive marketplace.

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Episode 19: Vaccination Celebration! OSHA Implications for Vaccine Programs

In this episode, Scott Hecker, Senior Counsel in the Labor & Employment department of Seyfarth’s Washington, DC office, and Adam Young, Partner in the Labor & Employment department of Seyfarth’s Chicago office, discuss workplace safety issues surrounding vaccine mandates.

Adam and Scott explore the potential impacts of a fully-approved COVID-19 vaccine, and how employers, including the federal government, are approaching vaccine requirements. Beyond vaccines, Adam and Scott lay out additional risk mitigation protocols employers can consider to limit OSHA enforcement risks, including in the healthcare sector (which is subject to OSHA’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standard) and under OSHA’s COVID-19 national emphasis program.