{"id":"DUT-SC-015","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"South Carolina","state":"SC","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, Office of Occupational Safety and Health (SC OSHA)","authority":"SC OSHA, Employers Fact Sheet (Mar. 28, 2020)","instrument":"SC OSHA FastFact, \u0027Employers play an important role in controlling the spread of COVID-19 - March 2020\u0027 (created March 28, 2020)","title":"Employers play an important role in controlling the spread of COVID-19: infectious disease safety strategies, social distancing, workplace posters, guidance on preparing workplaces","dateIssued":"2020-03-28","effective":"2020-03-28","end":"standing guidance through 2021 Q3 (still posted)","startDate":"2020-03-28","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP"],"addressees":["employers (all)"],"clause":"Employers should start taking steps now, and should be using all resources necessary to prepare for and respond to the outbreak. In addition to normal hazard-prevention strategies, like engineering controls or personal protective equipment for specific hazards, all employers should now develop and implement infectious disease safety strategies","enforcement":"none; a recommendation whose legal effect arises from Act No. 99 § 3(5) and § 4 (SC OSHA guidance is \u0027public health guidance\u0027; immunity requires reasonable adherence) and from the general duty of § 41-15-80 as SC OSHA stated it three weeks later in mandatory terms (Ex. DUT-SC-014)","functions":[],"notes":"Recommends (verb \u0027should\u0027) that every employer implement worksite-specific social distancing including worker and customer interactions, post educational posters, encourage sick employees to stay home, promote handwashing, encourage respiratory etiquette, discourage sharing of utensils, desks, phones and tools, and maintain housekeeping and disinfection.","sourceUrl":"http://www.scosha.llronline.com/pdfs/2020/Employers%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":265361,"grade":"primary","character":"recommendation_only","description":"","collection":"DUT-SC","url":"/library/DUT-SC-015","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-SC-015","citation":"South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, Office of Occupational Safety and Health (SC OSHA), SC OSHA FastFact, \u0027Employers play an important role in controlling the spread of COVID-19 - March 2020\u0027 (created March 28, 2020) (standing) (Ex. DUT-SC-015)","stateName":"South Carolina","related":["DUT-SC-010","SC-003","SC-010","SC-011","DUT-SC-014"]}