Attorney Phillip Russell with Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak, & Stewart in Tampa, Florida, said OSHA is not changing any rules with this guidance but simply clarifying to contractors and other employers in low-risk industries that recordable COVID-19 cases must be work related.
“I think they had to [issue] something like this because there were a lot of questions,” he said. “They want employers focused on mitigation and not worried about whether they have to record or not.”