--- title: Several States Warned about Adopting a COVID-19 Health Care ETS description: Three states have been warned by OSHA to adopt a COVID-19 health care emergency temporary standard or risk decertification. image: https://blog.nisbenefits.com/hubfs/blog-headers/osha-covid-states-ets-b.jpg --- ![Several States Warned about Adopting a COVID-19 Health Care ETS](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/hubfs/blog-headers/osha-covid-states-ets-b.jpg) # Several States Warned about Adopting a COVID-19 Health Care ETS - Home - [Employee Benefit News for School, City and County Employers](https://blog.nisbenefits.com) - Several States Warned about Adopting a COVID-19 Health Care ETS [ Erin Woulfe ](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/author/erin-woulfe) 11/02/2021 [ Legislative News](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/topic/aca-other-legislative-news), [ COVID-19](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/topic/covid-19) [0 Comments ](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/several-states-warned-about-adopting-a-covid-19-health-care-ets#postComment) 1 Minutes *1.5 minute read* The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published the [health care COVID-19 emergency temporary standard ](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/emergency-temporary-standard-for-health-care-issued)(ETS) in June 2021. Out of the 21 states with their own state plans, three states have not adopted the federal standard or developed their own equivalent. These states are Arizona, South Carolina, and Utah. OSHA recently sent these states a courtesy letter to inform them that their decertification process is beginning. The states have failed to adopt OSHA’s COVID-19 ETS or one as effective which violates the OSH Act. Failure to adopt an ETS places the states’ health care employees at risk. The decertification process is lengthy and has many steps. In the end, OSHA will review all information and make a decision regarding the revocation of any of the states’ approval to have their own state plans. If the state’s approval is revoked for a state plan, federal OSHA standards and enforcement will be reinstated into the state. [Download the bulletin](https://blog.nisbenefits.com/hubfs/Blog%20-%20supporting%20documents/bulletin-osha-states-adopt-covid-ets.pdf) for more details. 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