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Subject: Fwd: COVID_Article_Final.pdf by Kristen Meghan OSHA
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Board of Supervisors, Clerk of the Board, Public Record, DA Ramsey, Sheriff Honea, County
Counsel, Deputy County Counsel, Chief Deputy County Counsel, Chico City Council, Chico
City Attorney, Oroville City Council, Oroville City Attorney, Biggs City Council, Biggs City
Attorney, Gridley City Council, Gridley City Attorney, Paradise City Council, Paradise City
Attorney:
I am writing to you to report illegal activity that is a public health hazard and creating liability
to businesses, Butte County Board of Supervisors, Chico City Council, Biggs City Council,
Gridley City Council, Oroville City Council, Paradise City Council, and school districts in
Butte County. This is creating an unlimited risk when implementing forced vaccinations,
testing, and face coverings.
Enclosed please find the “White Paper”, which has been peer reviewed and titled, OSHA,
Regulations, Rules, and Mandate Madness written by Kristen Meghan and Tammy Clark.
Both of these women are OSHA credentialed and subject matter experts. They have a long list
of impressive trainings in Industrial Hygiene and Occupational and Environmental Health and
Safety and specifically trained by our government.
Both Ms. Meghan and Ms. Clark have testified in many court cases throughout the United
States at both the state and national level. Now this needs to be stopped at the local level. If
you all take quick action you can turn this around and then help others.
You are being lied to. None of these mandates will stand up in the courts. The public needs
you to uphold your oath of office and follow the law for all concerned.
The enclosed (see below attachment) information can help you fight the upcoming mandates
and arm you with information and the ability to stop discrimination. Don’t be afraid to stand
up. What the government is trying to do is illegal. Our government does not have the authority
to do this. OSHA has very clear standards and it does not answer to the President. Corporate
attorneys and business owners have been “weaponized” to do this anyway. None of these
mandates will stand up in the courts and all employers can be sued. OSHA can not mandate
vaccines they have no jurisdiction. Masks are not safe and cause neurological development
problems and vaccines are not efficacious.
It is imperative that you get this information out to the public, all human resource departments,
and all businesses and workplaces in Butte County. Some are receiving inaccurate legal advise
which puts them at great risk of liability.
Thank you in advance for your quick response to these important legal and constitutional
issues you are faced with.
Sincerely,
Ms. Dreiss
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Subject: COVID_Article_Final.pdf by Kristen Meghan OSHA
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OSHA, REGULATIONS, RULES, AND MANDATE MADNESS
By Kristen Meghan, Sr. Industrial Hygienist
Tammy Clark, OSHA Environmental Health & Safety Professional
With Special Acknowledgement to Stephen Petty, P.E. C.I.H, C.S.P.
November 29, 2021
Many workplaces around the nation are scrambling to figure out the requirements of the
proposed OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Covid-19 Vaccination and Testing,
and whether or not they must follow the mandates they are hearing about. This article is an
attempt to clarify the illegality of the current ETS promulgation, the statutory authority of the
Executive Branch, the regulatory rulemaking process, the legal and scientifically-accepted
hazard control process, the aspects over which OSHA has authority and jurisdiction and those in
which they do not, the liability placed on employers for enforcing workplace mandates as a
condition of employment, and the constitutionality of the mandates within the ETS.
On November 6, The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, with a three-judge panel, issued a
Temporary Restraining Order staying the approval and enforcement of OSHA's ETS filed on
November 5. The ETS was found to have statutory and constitutional with the
Mandate. The ETS covered vaccinations, testing, and face coverings. On November 12, an
therefore, no employer in the United States is legally able to cite OSHA's recent ETS as
justification for forced vaccination, testing, or mandating face coverings in the workplace,
neither is any individual state OSHA agency. This stay applies nationwide, not just to the states
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covered by the 5 Circuit Court. Legally, no individual state may create a standard where no
federal standard exists, so no state within the United States may legally create a Covid-19
standard with any mandates regarding vaccines, facial coverings, social distancing, etc. Until
there is an approved ETS, there is no standard. Where there is no standard, there can be no
enforcement.
We are aware that most business managers are receiving legal advice to act as though this ETS is
still viable and enforceable. It is not! In fact, following the mandates within the ETS actually
puts employers at a greater risk of liability! We are highly credentialed and in-demand court
approved Subject Matter Experts on OSHA standards and compliance, pandemic planning,
preparedness and response, workplace health and safety, exposure control, risk reduction, hazard
elimination, employer liability, and the authority given to OSHA through the OSH Act of
Congress of 1970. Combined, we have nearly 40 years of experience in the fields of preventive
health, exposure science, pandemic preparedness, planning, and response, public health, safety,
and regulatory compliance.
We have helped attorneys and legislative bodies around the United States fight this illegal ETS
and many other compliance-related cases. Our career fields of Industrial Hygiene and
Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety overlap with compliance requirements issued
through the regulatory agencies of OSHA, EPA, and DOT. In short, we know the world of
regulatory compliance and the rulemaking process very well, but we recognize that most
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individuals, including many legislators and corporate attorneys, do not. Therefore, many
business owners are getting inappropriate advice from their legal council, leaving them unsure
about what to do; listen to the court, or listen to their attorney and President Biden who are
advising
OSHA AUTHORITY AND THE RULEMAKING PROCESS
There is no statutory authority to implement this type of ETS as OSHA does not get their
guidance or orders from the Executive Branch. The OSH Act of 1970 places OSHA under the
guidance of the Legislative Branch, which is the reason this ETS is not legal, and will not be
enforceable. OSHA gets its authority exclusively from Congress. In order for a regulatory
agency to promulgate a new health or safety standard, the regulatory rulemaking process must be
followed. This is a very lengthy process requiring congressional and internal OSHA Board
hearings, testimony from industry professionals and organizations, a public commentary period,
and a review period to allow for revisions based on testimony, industry, and public input. The
standard promulgation process typically takes many years. An Emergency Temporary Standard
may skip the normal rulemaking process only when there is a grave danger to society and time is
of the essence in order to reduce or eliminate a known workplace hazard. Even then, the ETS
must meet certain requirements for approval. The promulgation of the Covid-19 ETS was done
illegally, so none of the mandates contained within the ETS are legally defensible or enforceable.
Even if it was legally promulgated, OSHA must show the ETS is in place to control and mitigate
to control a hazard that will likely result in death or serious injury.
The 5th Circuit Court found the following:
- challenges to the ETS are likely to succeed on the merits, specifically:
- OSHA exceeded its authority in promulgating the ETS.
- OSHA has no authority to issue an ETS to address an airborne virus that is both
present in society (not exclusive to any workplace) and that exposure to
the virus is non-life-threatening to most employees.
- OSHA failed to show that all employees are in fact, exposed to Covid-19 in
every workplace.
- OSHA failed to argument of a vaccine as a control.
- It remains unclear that Covid-
such mandates.
- OSHA failed to show that the benefits of the ETS would outweigh the costs of
implementing sweeping mandates to the extent that it will cause economic harm
to businesses.
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authority overreach regarding the Commerce Clause and the
issue of separation of powers principles.
- The court took issue with the loss of liberties of individuals hesitant to take the
vaccines with job losses, and the undue burden and economic loss put on
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business owners forced to lose employees.
- Finally, court found a stay is the best regarding protection
We will cover all these aspects and more to provide clarity and documentation for all employees,
students, and patients to provide to t
superintendents and school board members, and hospital systems trying to force all employees
and patients to follow non-traditional and illegal mandates.
It is our hope that this document serves to put anyone in a position of authority who is attempting
to usurp the settled and historic rulemaking process, legal precedent, and current regulatory
standing, on notice that they are in violation of the law and will face serious liability
repercussions if they choose to act in a rogue manner, implementing self-proclaimed,
unsupported
It is also our hope that the people of the United States use this information to collectively and
offensively join together in their workplaces, schools, churches, and public spaces to refuse to be
controlled by illegal, unconstitutional mandates by a rogue President, a rogue Administration,
and employers, school boards, county health commissions, clergy, and businesses who are
simply following marching orders. Only an educated workforce and public can stop this, which
is why we are providing this level of detailed information.
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authority directly and solely from Congress. OSHA does not, and has never had authority over
broad public health policy. Neither does OSHA have authority or jurisdiction over vaccines or
any other medical procedures, devices, applications, or medical interventions for disease
prevention. This falls under the agencies of the FDA and HHS. OSHA has never mandated
vaccines for any pandemic or illness season. On the contrary, in multiple letters of interpretation
regarding flu and Hepatitis B vaccinations, OSHA clarified that they do not mandate vaccines,
rather, they require the workplace to develop an Occupational Health and Safety Program
pertinent to the hazards associated with each workplace. For employees who may be exposed to
blood and other potentially infectious materials, the employer must offer a Hepatitis B vaccine,
but the employee is not required to take it. It is totally up to the employees whether or not to
protect themselves. Further, OSHA does not cite the employer if employees decline the voluntary
vaccine (more on this under OSHA citation types).
GRAVE DANGER AND NECESSITY REQUIREMENTS
The first requirement for an ETS to be approved by Congress is the grave danger aspect. The
CDC data does not support Covid-19 as an illness being classified as putting an employee in
grave danger of serious injury or death. The numbers simply do not support this.
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The second requirement for ETS approval is necessity. There is a total lack of evidence that this
vaccine is necessary to prevent serious illness and death that would likely occur if the vaccine
was not administered as a control measure. To-date, the survivability of Covid-19 among most
age groups is over 99%. This is by no means a grave danger to the public. Neither is it legally
defensible to claim that a vaccine that does not prevent anyone from contracting or spreading the
population, when the population is not in grave danger of serious illness or death without it. The
control simply does not meet the legal requirements of grave danger or necessity for an ETS.
Perhaps the strongest argument against the grave danger and necessity requirements, however,
are the fact that infectious diseases are not recognized so OSHA does not
have jurisdiction or authority over infectious disease control measures.
OSHA CITATION TYPES
The ETS states that an employer who does not enforce these mandates on their workforce can be
definition of a serious violation is one in which a workplace hazard can result in serious injury or
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hazard is the potential for harm (physical or mental). In practical terms, a hazard often is
associated with a \[workplace\] condition or activity that, if left uncontrolled, can result in an
injury or illness. Identifying hazards and eliminating or controlling them as early as possible will
disease mitigation strategies or public health policy. Infectious diseases are not considered
workplace hazards and OSHA has no jurisdiction or authority to control the spread of infectious
diseases. This is within the scope of Health and Human Services and public health officials, not
OSHA.
OSHA actually provided clarification on their role with infectious diseases and their role in the
workplace vaccine debate. In 2009, OSHA issued a Letter of Interpretation regarding mandatory
flu vaccines in the workplace. They made it very clear that they do not require employees to take
vaccines, and that the employer will not be punished or cited for not requiring employees to do
so. It is always up to the employee to decide whether or not they choose to receive a vaccine for
their wellbeing; not OSHA and not the employer. The employer can require a vaccine as a
condition of employment, however, if an employee opts out for personal reasons, they are
actually protected against retaliation. Read their letter here
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expect facilities providing healthcare services to perform a risk assessment of their workplace
and encourages healthcare employers to offer both the seasonal and H1N1 vaccines. It is
important to note that employees need to be properly informed of the benefits of the
vaccinations. However, although OSHA does not specifically require employees to take the
vaccines, an employer may do so. In that case, an employee who refuses vaccination because of a
reasonable belief that he or she has a medical condition that creates a real danger of serious
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illness or death (such as serious reaction to the vaccine) may be protected under Section 11(c) of
the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 pertaining to whistle blower rights'', and then
refers folks to CDC. Given the number of documented adverse reactions, serious injuries, and
deaths associated with these vaccines, it is beyond reasonable for an employee to feel they are in
danger of a serious injury or death as a result of receiving a Covid vaccine, and they should
never be mandated to receive these vaccines that are still only under Emergency Use
Authorization and not fully tested for safety or efficacy.
According to the CDC, there are an estimated 146.6 million Americans who now have natural
immunity. Importantly, OSHA is not recognizing natural immunity, which most scientists and
health experts agree imparts better immunity than the vaccines. Moreover, being fully vaccinated
is poorly defined and a moving target; CDC considers someone with only one Pfizer or Moderna
injections to not be vaccinated and will likely change the definition as more and more boosters
ss for not enforcing the
overreaching mandates included in this ETS puts a burden on all businesses and on the economy,
with absolutely no science, data, or evidence to back up these benefits of the mandates.
This is a very concerning issue for employers because many companies and industries are not
allowed to bid on projects if they have even one serious citation on their record. This is an
egregious overreach that puts an unfair and totally unnecessary burden on employers.
THE HIERARCHY OF SAFETY AND CONTROLS
To further prove this ETS is not legal, OSHA must always follow the Hierarchy of Safety and
Controls. Vaccines cannot legally be viewed as a control method. Industrial Hygienists are
trained and credentialed to conduct Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) to determine which control
methods are most effective in reducing a hazard to a safe level that allows the employees to work
in a safe and healthful work environment. Under OSHA's own Program Management, controls
that are selected MUST be revisited to document and ensure confidence in any controls
implemented. An example would be implementing engineering, administrative and personal
protective equipment (PPE) as controls.
An example of the Hierarchy decision making process to control hazards would be a situation
involving work in the Air Force. She conducted an HRA on an aircraft sanding process
that involved the removal of carcinogenic metals. The first requirement according to the HRA
was to conduct air sampling in the workers' breathing zone, to determine the Occupational
Exposure Limit (OEL). In following the Hierarchy of Safety and Controls, engineering controls
were the first control that could feasibly be utilized. Capture ventilation was established by
having the workers use a pneumatic sander with an attached HEPA filter and a system that
collected the dusts. An administration control was also implemented: a wet method to clean up
residual metals dusts, decontamination stages and training. Once again, sampling was done
(verifying the confidence in the control method), only to find this control method did reduce
exposures, but required further controls to be fully compliant with the safe permissible exposure
limits (PELs). Following the Hierarchy of Controls, PPE was then utilized, including 3M 7800S
full face respiratory protection with P100 filters. This specific PPE had the adequate protection
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factors to control the exposure to these known carcinogens. Three months after training the
employees and implementing these controls, further testing to verify the confidence in all
controls was performed. This involved rigorous testing, investigation and documentation. An
Industrial Hygienist cannot verify the confidence in vaccines as a control method. It is widely
known, these Covid-19 vaccines do not eliminate the hazards associated with being diagnosed
with SARS-COV2, and IH's absolutely cannot verify the confidence in a control method that is
injected into an employee. Control measures are not designed to follow employees home!
In addition, every individual has unique biogenetic factors and health histories that make a
one-size-fits all approach to health completely irresponsible and dangerous. It is a dangerous
precedent to set for unelected, unqualified bureaucrats to dictate public policy by ignoring
existing science and acting as licensed healthcare providers.
As described, this is a major legal aspect as to why the ETS is currently unable to be enforced.
We have played important roles in working with countless attorneys to draft these arguments, as
our career field is not widely understood. We are mostly behind-the-scenes working to keep
people safe, healthy, and compliant with government regulatory agencies, but when the
government decided to step into our lane and ignore the scientific and medical experts, we felt a
sense of civic responsibility and moral duty to expose their irresponsible and illegal actions, and
why the response to this pandemic has been so wrong, starting with the Hierarchy and the
controls listed within.
The federal courts have ruled twice now that the OSHA ETS is an overreach. To implement
controls in the workplace, HRA's have to be conducted and are not meant to be a blanket
approach. An electrician who works autonomously does not have the same risk of an
occupational exposure to this virus as a health care worker working in isolation units, inside
healthcare facilities. Administrative professionals, like those in the education sector, have the
ability to have their exposures reduced if the school systems would implement engineering
controls through dilution and destruction technologies. An example would be the installation of a
product called the iWave Air, an air ionizer which is installed on a facilities' HVAC system. This
engineering control can kill up to 96% of pathogens, allergens, mold, and viruses like Covid-19.
It is being installed in numerous businesses, schools and prisons around the country. It should
have been a recommendation far above mask use, from day one of the pandemic.
See the Hierarchy of Controls below. This guide was first developed by the National Safety
Council (NSC) in 1950 and has been used to control exposures for over 70 years. For the first
time since public health and safety professionals have relied on the Hierarchy of Controls to
control exposures, our government abandoned the reliance on scientifically-proven
methodologies, which actually contributed to the creation of several greater hazards within
society. We were told to do things in direct opposition to what the exposure scientists have
known for many years is the only proven manner in which to control a pandemic and an
infectious airborne virus. The response, which was totally contrary to the known
science, actually increased rates of infection and transmission!
To understand the approach to exposure control, we always start at the top, which is the most
effective hazard control measure, and work our way down to the least effective control. If you
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notice, PPE is always the last form of control. This is because putting someone in personal
protective equipment means we were not successful in eliminating the hazard through the other
ection against the
hazard, which means they could still potentially be exposed if there is a PPE failure, misuse, lack
of training, etc. It is important to note that facial coverings or masks are not PPE. They fall
below PPE because they are not rated or tested for material makeup, protective factors, fit
factors, etc. Facial coverings are not even on the Hierarchy of Safety and Controls, yet our
governments skipped over every single known mitigation and control method, ignoring decades
worth of proven science and existing OSHA standards (OSHA has requirements anytime you put
someone in PPE), and irresponsibly mandated face masks on an entire society, as a blanket,
one-size-fits-all approach with no medical questionnaire, no personal health history, no risk
factors reviewed, no training on donning, doffing, changing out, cleaning, disinfecting, storing,
work-rest cycles, etc. This was all handled so wrong, so dangerously, that we felt a responsibility
to expose the illegal and egregious activity, and educate the public, parents, business owners,
school officials, attorneys, legislators, and government officials.
HIERARCHY OF SAFETY AND CONTROLS
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FACIAL COVERINGS AND AEROSOLIZED VIRUSES
Face coverings are also not a control method for an aerosolized virus. Masks are not rated or
capable of having a proper seal; literature actually states that masks cannot be sealed and do not
meet any of the basic provisions of the Respiratory Protection Standard (29 CFR 1910.134). In
addition, they actually create a greater hazard and increase rates of infection. This is something
that OSHA is guilty of ignoring, but many professionals in our field are fighting these mandates
all over the country. We have personally helped end mandates in three states, because we are
considered experts on Respiratory Protection, source control and PPE, and we know the science
that has existed since the 1970s. It is highly negligent to view vaccines and/or face coverings as
control methods, as neither fall on the Hierarchy of Safety and Controls. Masks come in all types
of materials and sizes and not one single real world randomized control trial with meta
data analysis supports the data that a "mask" can stop the spread of Covid.
It is important to note that all mask studies to-date that claim masks work to slow or stop the
spread of Covid-19, have been conducted in a laboratory under various conditions, but all place
the mask on a mannequin or fixture that is perfectly sealed. In the real world, gaps always exist
between the mask and the skin; masks that seal are called respirators. Literature shows that real
masks with gap areas of 2% of the mask area, with low effectiveness to start with, have reduced
effectiveness to 75% and at 3% gap area, that value drops to essentially no effectiveness.
Given the fact that most masks are worn improperly, there is a variety of porous cloth fabrics that
do nothing to stop the tiny SARS COV-2 virion, and people are not trained on how to properly
don and doff, use, and wear them, creating an increased risk of infection through fomite and
cross contamination, it is no wonder that masks have done nothing to slow or stop the spread of
this virus, rather, they have actually increased infection rates and prolonged achieving herd
immunity.
Professionals within our fields conducted extensive calculations and have determined, via
Stoke's Law, that aerosols can stay suspended in air for several hours and days. This is why
engineering controls with increased air exchanges, under ASHRAE guidance, is recommended
by IHs and Engineers. The first thing an IH must consider when implementing controls is
whether or not the controls are safe, and will it work to control the hazard at hand. Masks are not
safe for prolonged use and the improper use and handling can cause the small particulates and
aerosols to be suspended in the ambient air. This science is presented on the Rumble Channel of
Stephen Petty, P.E., C.I.H., C.S.P. How Much Protection Can a Mask Provide? Mask vs. PPE -
Ep. 05 (Removed from YT) (rumble.com); real solutions, industrial hygiene solutions are noted
in Episode 06. Both OSHA and the CDC know this information. The CDC cites a study to prove
masks as source control with flawed studies that involved asking a female to close her mouth,
not move her head and breathe through her nose. This does not represent real world use and no
seal can exist with a mask, which is why respirators are rated through NIOSH. Not only were
these parameters removed from the study, their equipment was out of calibration. This is
information the general public should be made aware of. OSHA also knows this, which is why
they created their PPE and Respiratory Protection Standards in the 1970s!
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In reviewing over 50 studies supporting mask wearing by CDC, those with actual data suffer
from one of two flaws: i.) no controls i.e., similar group not wearing a mask or ii.) confounding
factors that do not allow one to determine the effectiveness of wearing a mask i.e., study has
several factors evaluated at the same time (distancing, HVAC improvements, quarantines and
masks). The only double-blind study listed was the Denmark study where ~ 3,000 people
wearing masks and ~3,000 people not wearing masks were monitored for contracting
COVID-19; data showed no differences in disease rates statistically. CDC panned this study by
suggesting it was based on only 0.1% of the total country population and that a different study
should have been completed. Epidemiology studies do not require the study to include a fixed
require >35,000 people in the
study for it to be valid this is absurd).
OSHA appears to be an agency guilty of revisionism, as they are ignoring their own standards,
they are creating overburdensome requirements on employers, and putting the American
workforce at great risk of increased hazard by forcing them to do what their own standards say
cannot legally be done because of these known health hazards! Moreover, they are doing great
damage to the agency and their own scientists in the eye as it is increasingly viewed as
an institution driven by a political agenda.
Facial coverings are of particular concern for children for a variety of reasons, much of which is
mouth and nose, restricting proper gaseous exchanges, without following the strict protocols of
the current standards, is absolutely illegal and dangerous. This is why the standards exist in the
first place. When it comes to applying a blanket, one-size-fits-all face covering mandate on
children, this should be considered criminal. It is nothing less than child abuse to restrict a
normal breath, causing many well-known medical issues such as hypoxia, hypercapnia,
headache, fatigue, irritability, difficulty focusing, increased infection rates due to perioral
dermatitis (bacterial infection in the mouth and on the skin), increased infection rates due to
trapped and rebreathing of waste gasses and increased viral load, increased infection rates due to
fomite and cross-contamination (children are dirty and germy, and they constantly touch their
masks, creating serious contamination issues), and many, many more known, documented health
hazards of prolonged mask wearing.
The existing, settled science demonstrates that masks do not stop the spread of aerosolized
infectious respiratory diseases, and in fact, they actually create a greater hazard, increasing
infection rates. If school Superintendents and Boards will not relen
unmask their children, they should be recalled immediately and replaced. Parents, your
health is in your hands and nobody is going to do this for you. It is up to you to stop
this and protect your children. No child should be forced to restrict their normal breath. If they
are being forced to, get them out of those schools and daycare centers immediately!
HIPPA AND PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION
Another concern is the overreach of asking employees to disclose their vaccination status. One
of the most misunderstood aspects of HIPAA and protected health information (PHI) is that it
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only applies to healthcare settings, which is false. Any employee who handles another
employee's protected health and private health information or that of any customer or client, is
subject to annual HIPAA training and has a "right" to know said historical medical information.
In managing OSHA's Respiratory Protection Program for over 76K employees, we had to be
fully trained under HIPAA due to the fact we reviewed and maintained the files associated with
medical questionnaires, under 29 CFR 1910.134 Appendix C. Asking an employee their
vaccination status is considered PHI. To do so without being fully HIPPA trained and certified
puts the employer at risk of violating privacy laws and opens the employer up to lawsuits.
INCREASED LIABILITY
One major area of misunderstanding is in the area of liability. We hear all the time that OSHA
Employers, you need to understand your risk of liability for requiring employees to utilize any
medical device (masks are considered medical devices) without proper oversight and training, or
to take any experimental vaccine that is still under emergency use authorization (EUA) and has
not been tested for safety or efficacy (the Covid-19 vaccines are still in stage 4 testing phases and
still under EUA), or any vaccine as a condition of employment for that matter. The injuries and
deaths associated with these vaccines are too great to be ignored, yet employers are 100% liable
for the injuries and deaths sustained if they are received because of a condition of employment.
To-date, the CDC VAERS website reports over 18,000 deaths directly associated with the
Covid-19 vaccines, and this is only a small percentage, based on self-reporting by medical
personnel.
There is a lot of confusion
intentional wordplay in an attempt to get all businesses to self-regulate and comply with
their stated Only those who truly understand scope of authority, inspection
the semantics.
RECORDKEEPING AND OSHA 300 LOGS
On July 7, 2021, OSHA issued an update to its National Emphasis Program which changed the
recordkeeping requirements for employers. While employers are normally required to report all
workplace-related injuries above and beyond a first-aid injury; illness, serious injury, death, loss
of consciousness, loss of limb or eye, for all Covid-19 mandate-related injuries or illnesses, the
agency declared that employers would no longer be required to record these normal recordables
on their OSHA 300 Injury and Illness Log. This simply means that the agency removed this as
inspection criteria. However, it does not remove the liability component from the employer in the
event of an adverse reaction that causes an injury, illness, or death. Most employers are under the
impression that this means they are not liable for any Covid-related injury, illness, or death, but
this is not the case.
While this country is greatly divided, one thing is not debatable. Industrial Hygienists are the
experts in protecting workers and have been left out of a multidisciplinary approach and review
in ensuring workers are protected in their respective workplaces. For the first time in decades,
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while dealing with a pandemic, the multidisciplinary approach was abandoned and those in our
career fields who normally provide guidance to hospital systems, government agencies, and
communities on protective factors, PPE, and environmental control strategies, were left
completely off all Covid-19 task forces and our expertise was ignored. It begs the question,
We will leave that for you to consider, but we also want to leave you with the knowledge and
understanding about how and why none of these Covid mandates have been handled properly or
legally. It is simply not legal, safe, or healthy to mandate facial coverings or respirators (PPE)
with no regards to medical history, fit factors, protective factors, and training, nor is it safe or
healthy to enforce a vaccination mandate with no regards for personal health situations,
biological factors, health history, etc. the way it has been attempted under OSHA's recently
drafted ETS.
CONSTITUTIONALITY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
We have addressed the medical, scientific, and legal aspects of Covid-19 pandemic response, but
we must also address the aspect of constitutionality and civil liberties. This is the first time in
American history that personal medical freedom and choice and civil liberties are secondary to
government mandates. When an individual no longer has autonomy over their own body, rather,
the government has absolute control over individuals and can force them to cover their faces,
restrict their breathing, inject unknown, experimental ingredients into their bodies, stay away
from others, not go to work, fine p
science, data, or evidence to support these mandates,
Safety and health is never a one-size-fits all approach. In addition, the main rule of public health
policy-making is to consider the best control measure for the problem that does not violate the
It is never a blanket approach, nor will the solutions ever remove the
to choose for themselves their personal health and medical choices,
regardless of what public policies are implemented for the control of a public health crisis. All
factors must be considered for a free, safe, and healthy society.
CMS, FEDERAL CONTRACTORS, AND OTHERS
We get asked about the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, federal contractors
mandate, hospital systems, and others quite frequently. While we have been fighting the OSHA
battle for over a year now, these agencies and groups are now being targeted and weaponized by
a rogue presidential administration in an attempt to force their self-
entire American public.
Make no mistake, this is a power grab. They are weaponizing every agency they can to try and
implement their agenda. For us, this is not political. It is purely scientific and legal in approach,
as this is our career field. However, we are dealing with a sitting President who actually told the
This is egregious and illegal, and shows a blatant disdain for the rule of law. So we would be
remiss in not addressing all of the associated factors involved with these sweeping mandates that
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have caused great damage to the public, from the health and safety of individuals, to economic
devastation, to mental health issues; suicides, depression, and substance abuse, and much, more
more. To make matters worse, none of these mandates have done a thing to slow or stop the
spread of Covid-19. They actually increased rates of infection! The states with the tightest Covid
restrictions have had the highest rates of infection, while those with few to no mandates have
fared quite well.
And where are the known treatments? We are being denied the known treatments that are cheap,
safe, tested, and have been around for many decades. This is downright criminal and a violation
treatments have totally eradicated Covid-19 (research India and Uttar Predesh).
healthcare workers be vaccinated through CMS. As we have been saying all along, the Executive
Branch, even the President himself, does not have the statutory authority to implement such
overreaching mandates. The judge also stated that the agency does not have the authority to
impose such a broad mandate. CMS, like OSHA, gets their authority from Congress, and
enact this politically and economically vast, federalism-altering, and boundary-pushing mandate,
To summarize, it matter which agency is being threatened, targeted, and weaponized. It is
all the same. The Executive Branch of our government does not have the authority to simply tell
a regulatory agency, hospital system, doctors, or healthcare workers, schools, etc. to do what they
order them to do in an attempt to implement their own edicts. It is especially egregious when
CMS and hospital systems are involved because uncredentialed, unqualified government officials
are now attempting to set public health policy, ignoring licensed healthcare and public health
professionals, and creating great harm to the public and the economy. This is nothing short of
medical tyranny.
While it is important to note that this ruling today applies to 10 states, it does in fact, apply to
them all indirectly as a state regulatory agency cannot create a regulation or standard in their own
state where one does not exist federally. For the judge to halt this federal mandate sends a clear
message to the Biden Administration and the rest of the nation.
We hope this information has been helpful. Please take it, study and review it, and share with
your HR Departments, your corporate attorneys (who should be leading the way in fighting these
illegal mandates!), your employers, your school superintendents and school board members,
hospital systems, doctors, community businesses, clergy, families, friends, and anyone else you
can think of to share it with, and educate them on all of this. It is very important that we all
understand the laws, the rulemaking processes, the regulatory environment, the science, data, and
evidence behind the existing OSHA standards.
Businesses owners and schools must be informed on the extent of all of this so they are not
complicit in the illegal promulgation and enforcement of self-proclaimed mandates that only
create greater harm to their employees and customers, and students and staff, but they also need
to understand the increased risk of liability they have to their employees, staff, and students if
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they DO enforce any mandate that creates an injury or illness above first aid.
Individuals must be informed on the truth of the initiation of standards and regulations, the
science behind the existing standards that is being completely ignored today, and why we cannot
ever just make sweeping blanket mandates with no regard for personal health risks, histories,
assessments, training, education, ratings and other factors, and always protect personal choice
and liberties.
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