{"id":997,"date":"2021-02-24T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=997"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:02:38","slug":"changes-to-cdcs-mask-guidance-highlight-compliance-challenges-for-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2021\/02\/24\/changes-to-cdcs-mask-guidance-highlight-compliance-challenges-for-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to CDC&#8217;s Mask Guidance Highlight Compliance Challenges for Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 10, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its\u00a0<a title=\"CDC Guidance for Wearing Masks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/prevent-getting-sick\/cloth-face-cover-guidance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guidance for Wearing Masks<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Improve How Your Mask Protects You\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/your-health\/effective-masks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Improve How Your Mask Protects You<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Improve the Fit and Filtration of Your Mask to Reduce the Spread of COVID-19\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/prevent-getting-sick\/mask-fit-and-filtration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Improve the Fit and Filtration of Your Mask to Reduce the Spread of COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0resource pages.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuant to President Biden\u2019s January 21, 2021,\u00a0<a title=\"Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/01\/21\/executive-order-protecting-worker-health-and-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Executive Order<\/a>\u00a0on Protecting Worker Health and Safety, on January 29, 2021, OSHA issued new comprehensive\u00a0<a title=\"OSHA Issues Comprehensive COVID-19 Guidance with More Likely to Come\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/osha_issues_comprehensive_covid19_guidance_more_likely_come_0221.html\">COVID-19 guidance<\/a>. According to this guidance aimed at employers outside of healthcare, employers should\u00a0<a title=\"Protecting Workers: Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace\" href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/coronavirus\/safework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provide all workers with face coverings<\/a>\u00a0at no cost, unless their work task requires a respirator.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/changes_cdc_mask_guidance_highlights_compliance_challenges_employers_0221.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 10, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its\u00a0Guidance for Wearing Masks\u00a0and\u00a0Improve How Your Mask Protects You\u00a0and\u00a0Improve the Fit and Filtration of Your Mask to Reduce the Spread of COVID-19\u00a0resource pages. Pursuant to President Biden\u2019s January 21, 2021,\u00a0Executive Order\u00a0on Protecting Worker Health and Safety, on January 29, 2021, OSHA issued &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2021\/02\/24\/changes-to-cdcs-mask-guidance-highlight-compliance-challenges-for-employers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Changes to CDC&#8217;s Mask Guidance Highlight Compliance Challenges for Employers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,560,1110,818],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employment-law","tag-masks","tag-masks-in-the-workplace","tag-osha"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}