{"id":"DUT-UT-018","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Utah","state":"UT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Utah Labor Commission, Utah Occupational Safety and Health Division (UOSH), \u0027At the direction of Governor Gary Herbert\u0027","authority":"Utah Code section 34A-6-104 (recited in the Utah State Bulletin notice, Ex. DUT-UT-019); Utah Code section 63G-3-304 (emergency rulemaking); Utah Code section 34A-6-202 (standards)","instrument":"UOSH Emergency Rule, Utah Administrative Code R614-1-5.F, Face Mask Use to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 (Filing No. 53189)","title":"UOSH Emergency Rule -- Face Mask Use to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 (Utah Admin. Code R614-1-5.F)","dateIssued":"2020-11-09","effective":"2020-11-09","end":"120-day emergency rule under Utah Code section 63G-3-304: expired on or about March 9, 2021 absent renewal; no renewal or permanent-rule notice for R614-1-5 appears in the Utah State Bulletins of January 1, February 1, March 1, March 15, April 1 or April 15, 2021 (each read); the Commission\u0027s page still posted the rule on March 3, 2021 (Wayback) and returned 404 by January 21, 2022","startDate":"2020-11-09","endDate":"2021-03-09","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["MASK","EMP","DUTY"],"addressees":["employers; employees (the Commission\u0027s page states that UOSH authority \u0027does not extend outside of situations where an employer/employee relationship is present\u0027)"],"clause":"On November 9, 2020, the Utah Department of Health declared a state public health emergency due to the spread of COVID-19 in Utah State Public Health Order 2020-21. At the direction of Governor Gary Herbert: 1. Hereafter, every employee shall be required to wear a face mask while that employee is at work, subject to the exceptions below.","enforcement":"UOSH citations and civil penalties under Utah Code section 34A-6-307 (Ex. DUT-UT-012): up to $7,000 per violation and $70,000 per willful violation","functions":[],"notes":"Every employer in Utah had to require every employee to wear a face mask (defined to exclude masks with valves, vents or open weaves) while at work, subject to enumerated exceptions (eating or drinking, sole occupancy of a room with six feet of distance, communicating with the deaf, services requiring removal, swimming, performances, work where a mask \u0027would create a risk to the individual, as determined by government safety guidelines,\u0027 identity confirmation, and legal prohibition) and to exemptions for incapacitated persons and persons with medical, mental-health or developmental conditions; the rule \u0027does not supersede or negate the requirements for wearing a respirator.\u0027","sourceUrl":"https://laborcommission.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/R614-1-5F-Face-Masks-FINAL.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210126203756/https://laborcommission.utah.gov/divisions/uosh/emergency-rule/","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":206162,"grade":"primary","character":"covid_workplace_rule","description":"","collection":"DUT-UT","url":"/library/DUT-UT-018","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-UT-018","citation":"Utah Labor Commission, Utah Occupational Safety and Health Division (UOSH), \u0027At the direction of Governor Gary Herbert\u0027, UOSH Emergency Rule, Utah Administrative Code R614-1-5.F, Face Mask Use to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 (Filing No. 53189) (Nov. 9, 2020) (Ex. DUT-UT-018)","stateName":"Utah","related":["DUT-UT-019","UT-029","UT-032","DUT-UT-012","DUT-UT-011"]}