{"id":"DUT-UT-017","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Utah","state":"UT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Utah Labor Commission (with the Utah Occupational Safety and Health Division, WCF Insurance and the Utah Department of Health)","authority":"Utah Code section 34A-6-104 (Commission\u0027s powers) and section 34A-6-201 (employer duty); the document itself recites the CDC guidelines and the Utah Leads Together 2.0 Plan as the sources of its criteria","instrument":"Protecting High-Risk Individuals: Recommendations for the Workplace (Utah Labor Commission, May 2020)","title":"Protecting High-Risk Individuals -- Recommendations for the Workplace","dateIssued":"2020-05-24","effective":"2020-05 (recommendations; no effective date)","end":"recommendation (no termination date)","startDate":"2020-05-24","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP"],"addressees":["employers (all workplaces; industry-specific sections)"],"clause":"For the purposes of these recommendations, high-risk individuals would include all people in the workforce who meet any of the following criteria as outlined in CDC guidelines and the Utah Leads Together 2.0 Plan.... Protective Measures Employers Should Implement for ALL Employees... All individuals should wear masks or cloth face coverings in public spaces","enforcement":"None of its own; recorded as a recommendation","functions":[],"notes":"Recommended (\u0027should\u0027), for every workplace and for listed industries, the hierarchy-of-controls measures, face coverings in public spaces, cleaning of common areas, training of all employees on COVID-19 exposure and prevention, and specific protections for the employees the document identifies as vulnerable; the document imposes no duty of its own, and its legal effect ran through the employer\u0027s general duty under section 34A-6-201 (Ex. DUT-UT-011) and through the Governor\u0027s Phased Guidelines orders, which incorporated the Utah Leads Together plan\u0027s protections for those employees (Exs. UT-012, UT-013).","sourceUrl":"https://laborcommission.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COVID19RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200530041141/https://laborcommission.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COVID19RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":1655076,"grade":"primary","character":"recommendation_only","description":"","collection":"DUT-UT","url":"/library/DUT-UT-017","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-UT-017","citation":"Utah Labor Commission (with the Utah Occupational Safety and Health Division, WCF Insurance and the Utah Department of Health), Protecting High-Risk Individuals: Recommendations for the Workplace (Utah Labor Commission, May 2020) (May 24, 2020) (Ex. DUT-UT-017)","stateName":"Utah","related":["DUT-UT-011","UT-012","UT-013","DUT-UT-020"]}