protection. and the solicitor general was quick to acknowledge, yes. if there was a way to do it exclusively in the workplace, that would be appropriate. but the reality here is that you protect people at all times or you leave them unprotected when they are at work and when they have no ability to protect themselves from co-workers, cramped working conditions and what have you. david, as assistant secretary of labor for the occupational safety and health administration, i would love you to respond to that from osha s standpoint. absolutely. you know, covid-19 is a massive worker safety crisis. tens of thousands of workers have been sickened by the exposure at work. the law says that every worker has the right to a safe work accomplice. every worker has the right to leave work in the same condition they got to work. osha s job is to make sure employers provide the safe workplace. they control the workplace.
to acknowledge, yes, if there was some way to do it exclusively in the workplace, that would be appropriate. but the reality here, you have to protect people at all times, or you leave them unprotected when they are at work, when they have no ability to protect themselves from coworkers, crammed working conditions, and what have you. david, as somebody who served as for the occupational safety and health administration, i would love you to respond to that from an osha standpoint. absolutely. covid-19 is a massive worker safety crisis. tens of thousands of workers have gotten sick, at work. the law says, every worker has the right to a safe workplace. every worker has the right to leave work, in the same condition that they got to work. osha s job is to make sure employers provide that same workplace, because they control the workplace. so, when you have a hazard, osha tells employers, eliminate