Are local health departments required to provide PPE to volunteers, partners and others from outside their agency who volunteer to respond to assist their agency?
Healthcare workers and other volunteers assigned to assist in a public health emergency will be treated and provided the same protections as employees, under OSHA law. Volunteers will be provided training, supplies and equipment at no cost to them on how to safeguard and protect them during the emergency response as appropriate, including use of PPE. To the extent possible volunteers will not be assigned to perform tasks with potential hazardous exposure.
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