View the two videos below: COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) and the Supreme Court Rules Against OSHA Vaccine Mandate for Big Companies. What Happens Now?
1. COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) December 2021
2. Supreme Court Rules Against OSHA Vaccine Mandate for Big Companies
Read Chapter 5, The OSH Act, Standards, and Liability, in your textbook. Next, read an Introduction to OSHA document 2021, pages 1-24, located in Course Documents before writing Assignment 2.
After viewing the two videos, reading Chapter 5 and an Introduction to OSHA, answer the following question in detail with supportive literature, not your personal opinion. Was the Supreme Court’s decision blocking the COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard, mandating employers with 100 or more employees, appropriate based upon OSHA’s SEC. 2. Congressional Findings and Purpose, specifically focusing on, (b), (b) (1), (b) (3), (b) (7), and (b) (9)?
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/oshact/section_2
Critical Question When Answering the Assignment: Does OSHA have the statutory authority to mandate vaccines for employees against infectious viruses originating outside the workplace? Previous OSHA standards addressed risks that were more tied to specific lines of work, e.g., exposure to asbestos, pesticides, carcinogens, or other chemicals that occurred at the workplace?
Please adhere to the following directions:
Use the document Rubric, Additional Rules, and CRAAP Test as your writing guideline.
Do not use the textbook, blog writings, opinion articles, or opinion activist writings (ramblings) as references. Also, do not use “An Introduction to OSHA document 2021” as a reference.
You may use OSHA’s SEC. 2. Congressional Findings and Purpose, specifically focusing on (b), (b) (1), (b) (3), (b) (7), and (b) (9), as a third reference
Have a minimum of two references (peer-reviewed, government publications, etc.) In addition to the required two references, you may use several newspaper articles as references.
Use credible references applicable to the assignment question
Submit your response in a Word document
Follow APA guidelines
Double-space the paper
Write a minimum of 500 words
Please do not write about your personal opinion, and do not use I or we, etc. (first-person pronouns)
Omit flowery language
Again, do not use your textbook and an “Introduction to OSHA document 2021” attachment as references/citations. However, you must read an Introduction to OSHA document 2021, pages 1-24, before writing Assignment 2.
Review the ETS:
OSHA STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT
Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS)
“Under certain limited conditions, OSHA is authorized to set emergency temporary standards that take effect immediately and are in effect until superseded by a permanent standard. OSHA must determine that workers are in grave danger due to exposure to toxic substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or to new hazards and that an emergency standard is needed to protect them. Then, OSHA publishes the emergency temporary standard in the Federal Register, where it also serves as a proposed permanent standard. It is then subject to the usual procedure for adopting a permanent standard except that a final ruling should be made within six months. The validity of an emergency temporary standard may be challenged in an appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals.” https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standards-development
