{"id":"DUT-SC-012","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"South Carolina","state":"SC","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC)","authority":"DHEC, Interim Guidance for COVID-19 Scenarios in Businesses (July 25, 2020)","instrument":"DHEC, Interim Guidance for COVID-19 Scenarios in Businesses (July 25, 2020)","title":"Interim Guidance for COVID-19 Scenarios in Businesses: positive employee; sick but no test; close contact of a case; return-to-work criteria","dateIssued":"2020-07-25","effective":"2020-07-25 (superseding earlier versions; the DHEC Businesses \u0026 Employers page listed it as \u0027UPDATED\u0027)","end":"Guidance in force through 2021 Q3 in its successive versions","startDate":"2020-07-25","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP","QUAR"],"addressees":["employers; employees"],"clause":"DHEC is providing this generalized guidance for use by employers and employees to determine the best practices to utilize in various scenarios involving COVID-19 in the workplace.... If the employee was in close contact with someone with whom they do not live, they must quarantine for 14 days after their last contact with the positive person.","enforcement":"none in itself; incorporated by the Governor\u0027s orders as \u0027sanitation guidelines promulgated by the CDC, DHEC, or any other state or federal public health officials\u0027 that restaurants and Gathering hosts \u0027shall take reasonable steps to incorporate, implement, comply with, and adhere to\u0027 (Ex. SC-027 §§ 3(A)(1), 4(B)(4)) and by Act No. 99 § 3(5) as \u0027public health guidance\u0027","functions":[],"notes":"Employers are told to send positive and symptomatic employees home, to keep positive employees out until DHEC\u0027s return-to-work criteria are met, to perform a coworker exposure assessment and notify close contacts, to clean and disinfect the area where the infected employee worked, and that exposed employees \u0027must quarantine for 14 days\u0027; the guidance\u0027s own verbs are \u0027should\u0027 for employer actions and \u0027must\u0027 for the quarantine periods.","sourceUrl":"https://scdhec.gov/sites/default/files/media/document/DHEC-Interim-Guidance-for-COVID-19-Scenarios-forBusinesses_7.25.20.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200812005246/https://scdhec.gov/sites/default/files/media/document/DHEC-Interim-Guidance-for-COVID-19-Scenarios-forBusinesses_7.25.20.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":174877,"grade":"primary","character":"guidance_incorporated","description":"","collection":"DUT-SC","url":"/library/DUT-SC-012","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-SC-012","citation":"South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), DHEC, Interim Guidance for COVID-19 Scenarios in Businesses (July 25, 2020) (Ex. DUT-SC-012)","stateName":"South Carolina","related":["DUT-SC-014","SC-027"]}