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Eric Berg, deputy chief of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, defended the proposal to require all workers — vaccinated and unvaccinated — to wear masks if unvaccinated people are present. “Without this requirement, unvaccinated employees would be at risk,” he said.
Board members approved Cal/OSHA’s proposal, saying it’s better than the existing rule, which requires all workers to wear masks almost all the time. But a majority of the board members also criticized the new standards as unnecessarily restrictive and hard to follow. “What I heard all day was great confusion by employer groups as to the interpretation and implementation of the proposal,” said board member Chris Laszcz-Davis. “If there’s great confusion, people will either not do anything or they’re going to do the wrong thing.”
The board established a subcommittee to work with Cal/OSHA on a revised plan to relax workplace safety standards further and bring them more in alignmentthat the proposed relaxation in California’s workplace mask rules could be loosened further. They pointed out that fully vaccinated people are highly protected from the coronavirus, even when in close contact with those who are unvaccinated.
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