{"id":"DUT-CA-012","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"California","state":"CA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA)","authority":"Labor Code sections 6400-6407 and 8 C.C.R. section 3203 (\u0027Existing regulations require employers to implement effective measures to protect employees from worksite hazards\u0027); the State Public Health Officer orders (\u0027the latest public health orders\u0027)","instrument":"Agency news release No. 2020-63, \u0027Cal/OSHA Urges Employers to Follow the State\u0027s Guidance on Protecting Workers from COVID-19\u0027","title":"Cal/OSHA Release 2020-63 (July 16, 2020): existing regulations require employers to protect employees from recognized health hazards such as COVID-19; employers must modify work for six-foot distancing, provide disinfection time and supplies, provide face coverings, screen workers for symptoms and keep ill workers home; employers that interact with the public must follow the latest public health orders","dateIssued":"2020-07-16","effective":"2020-07-16 (statement of standing duties)","end":"standing (statement of duties that continued in force)","startDate":"2020-07-16","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP","MASK"],"addressees":["employers (all employers in California; businesses that interact with the public)"],"clause":"Existing regulations require employers to implement effective measures to protect employees from worksite hazards, including recognized health hazards such as COVID-19. Employers must take steps to: Modify work or the worksite to allow people to be at least six feet apart... Employers in businesses that interact with the public must follow the latest public health orders","enforcement":"Cal/OSHA citations and civil penalties (Labor Code sections 6427-6429) and misdemeanor liability (section 6423) for violation of the underlying regulations (DUT-CA-010).","functions":[],"notes":"Stated, as the enforcing agency\u0027s own reading of the Labor Code and Title 8 duties, that distancing modifications, disinfection, face coverings, symptom screening and exclusion of ill workers were what \u0027existing regulations require\u0027 of every employer, and that employers interacting with the public \u0027must follow the latest public health orders\u0027, including the July 13, 2020 statewide indoor-closure order (CA-010). Character as recorded: agency_position_statement (news release; \u0027urges\u0027).","sourceUrl":"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2020/2020-63.html","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200807034857/https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2020/2020-63.html","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":91742,"grade":"primary","character":"agency_position_statement","description":"","collection":"DUT-CA","url":"/library/DUT-CA-012","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-CA-012","citation":"Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA), Agency news release No. 2020-63, \u0027Cal/OSHA Urges Employers to Follow the State\u0027s Guidance on Protecting Workers from COVID-19\u0027 (standing) (Ex. DUT-CA-012)","stateName":"California","related":["CA-010","DUT-CA-010","DUT-CA-011"]}