--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | OMB description: OMB | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [Federal agency model for COVID-19 safety plans](https://blog.stpub.com/federal-agency-model-for-covid-19-safety-plans) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Wed, Mar 03, 2021 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/panoramic-group-business-worker-team-wear-protective-face-mask-new-normal-office-with-social-distance-practice-with-hand-sanitiser-alcohol-gel-table-prevent-coronavirus-covid-19-spreading.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/federal-agency-model-for-covid-19-safety-plans) Among President Biden’s flurry of first-week executive orders (EOs) is one entitled “Protecting the Federal Workplace and Requiring Mask-Wearing” (EO 13991). This EO states the administration’s policy “It is the policy of my Administration to halt the spread of … COVID–19 by relying on the best available data and science-based public health measures. Such measures include wearing masks when around others, physical distancing, and other related precautions recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).” The EO, and guidance to agencies issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), provide directions to federal agencies. They can also provide useful guidance to non-federal organizations in which most employees work in office settings. The rest of this note discusses a January 24, 2021 OMB memorandum to agency heads entitled “COVID-19 Safe Federal Workplace: Agency Model Safety Principles,” which incorporates CDC guidance. [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/federal-agency-model-for-covid-19-safety-plans) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/federal-agency-model-for-covid-19-safety-plans#comments-listing) Tags: [Health & Safety](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety), [Coronavirus](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/coronavirus), [Covid-19](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/covid-19), [OMB](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/omb), [EO 13991](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/eo-13991) ## [Trump administration guidelines for easing enforcement](https://blog.stpub.com/trump-administration-guidelines-for-easing-enforcement) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Tue, Oct 06, 2020 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/mask-5497216_1920.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/trump-administration-guidelines-for-easing-enforcement) During 2020, the Trump Administration has seized on the economic disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic as the latest of its many rationales for easing environmental regulations. In May, the President issued an executive order (EO) directing agencies to “support the economic response to the COVID–19 outbreak” (EO 13924 “Regulatory Relief To Support Economic Recovery”; I discussed it [HERE](https://blog.stpub.com/president-trump-directs-agencies-to-ease-regulations-to-ease-economic-burdens-of-covid-19)). That EO included directions to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to receive reports from individual federal agencies about their regulatory and enforcement responses, and authorized OMB to issue guidance. On August 31, 2020, OMB issued a “Memorandum for the Deputy Secretaries of Executive Departments and Agencies – Implementation of Section 6 of Executive Order 13924” (Memorandum M-20-31; called “the Memo” below) offering this guidance.  [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/trump-administration-guidelines-for-easing-enforcement) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/trump-administration-guidelines-for-easing-enforcement#comments-listing) Tags: [Health & Safety](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety), [Coronavirus](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/coronavirus), [Covid-19](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/covid-19), [OMB](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/omb), [Executive Order](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/executive-order), [Memorandum M-20-31](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/memorandum-m-20-31), [Economy](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/economy), [Administration Guidelines](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/administration-guidelines), [EO 13924](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/eo-13924) ## [President Trump directs agencies to ease regulations to ease economic burdens of COVID-19](https://blog.stpub.com/president-trump-directs-agencies-to-ease-regulations-to-ease-economic-burdens-of-covid-19) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Wed, Jun 24, 2020 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/grand-central-station-5044470_1920.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/president-trump-directs-agencies-to-ease-regulations-to-ease-economic-burdens-of-covid-19) President Trump has issued the latest in a series of executive orders (EOs) to reduce and repeal formal federal regulations. This month’s EO directs federal agencies to do so in order to “support the economic response to the COVID–19 outbreak” (EO 13924 “Regulatory Relief To Support Economic Recovery”). 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