{"id":"CT-014","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Connecticut","state":"CT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Ned Lamont; DECD (Safe Workplace Rules for Essential Employers)","authority":"Conn. Gen. Stat. sections 19a-131a and 28-9","instrument":"Executive Order No. 7V","title":"Protection of Public Health and Safety During COVID-19 Pandemic and Response - Safe Workplaces in Essential Businesses and Other Measures","dateIssued":"2020-04-07","effective":"2020-04-07 (rules due 5:00 p.m.)","end":"Safe Workplace Rules remained in effect for essential businesses not subject to Sector Rules (EO 7PP s.1(g)); superseded by EO 11A (Apr. 19, 2021) and repealed May 20, 2021 (EO 12B); s.6 civil-liability protection to Mar. 1, 2021 for facilities (EO 10A s.4)","startDate":"2020-04-07","endDate":"2021-04-19","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["EMP","MASK"],"addressees":["every workplace in the State","essential businesses and nonprofits and any other business permitted to operate"],"clause":"Every workplace in the State of Connecticut shall take additional protective measures to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 between and among employees, customers, and other persons such as delivery drivers, maintenance people or others who may enter the workplace. The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, in consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health, shall issue legally binding statewide rules prescribing such additional protective measures no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 7, 2020. Such rules shall be mandatory throughout the state, for essential businesses and nonprofits and any other business or nonprofit permitted to operate, and shall supersede and preempt any current or future municipal order.","enforcement":"Conn. Gen. Stat. section 28-22; DECD legally binding rules","functions":["PF production floor","WH warehouse","JS job sites","OF offices of essential employers","HR screening and training","EMP written protocols, distancing, masks, cleaning"],"notes":"The DECD Safe Workplace Rules for Essential Employers (face coverings, six-foot distancing, staggered shifts, cleaning, visitor limits) were updated for masks by EO 7BB and 7NNN.","sourceUrl":"https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/office-of-the-governor/executive-orders/lamont-executive-orders/executive-order-no-7v.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":195465,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"CT","url":"/library/CT-014","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/CT-014","citation":"Governor Ned Lamont; DECD (Safe Workplace Rules for Essential Employers), Executive Order No. 7V (Apr. 7, 2020) (Ex. CT-014)","stateName":"Connecticut","related":["DUT-CT-008","DUT-CT-012","DUT-CT-015"]}