Safety

CDC Ends Some COVID Security Guidelines, Emphasizes Private Danger

Leave a Comment / COVID, Safety / By Qiana Lupo

Aug. 11, 2022 – The CDC today announced that because there’s now less risk of “medically significant” COVID-19, some public health measures the agency recommended may no longer be necessary.For example, CDC recommendations on social distancing, quarantining, and testing children for COVID-19 while allowing them to stay in school – known as the test-to-stay strategy

USDA gets employee safety training and OSHA gets access to food facilities under new MOU

USDA will get worker security coaching and OSHA will get entry to meals services underneath new MOU

Leave a Comment / Employee, Safety / By News Desk

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) renewed a cooperative agreement with a formal signing on Aug.1. The FSIS workforce is viewed as critical to the day-to-day oversight and inspection operations for meat, poultry, and egg products at the 6,600 establishments that FSIS regulates.