OSHA Waives 29 CFR 1904’s Recording Requirements So Employers that Mandate Vaccines Have No Need to Record

COVID-19 times are indeed strange as behavior from the biggest government agency on down deviates from the norm to seemingly synchronize and harmonize a path toward seamless mass vaccination. This completely makes sense given this nasty pathogen that’s taken the lives of over 3.7 million people worldwide with over 610,000 deaths in America.&nbsp;But core fundamental principles of patient safety and quality, not to mention ethics, cannot be shortchanged in the process. An important rule that’s on the books of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) apparently was a problem for employers that were going to mandate vaccinations.&nbsp;You see if they actually did that and followed the federal rules, employers would have to record the events, which amounts to a form of adverse event reporting, and thus actually follow up on any such events with their employees.&nbsp;Employee safety is certainly important but not at the expense of getting in the way of mass vaccination, apparently.


