{"id":"DUT-VT-017","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Vermont","state":"VT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Vermont Department of Labor, Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration (VOSHA)","authority":"21 V.S.A. secs. 223 and 224 (VOSHA Code standards); 29 U.S.C. sec. 667(c)(2) and 29 C.F.R. 1953.5(b) (State plans adopt federal emergency temporary standards within 30 days); federal ETS: 86 Fed. Reg. 32376 (June 21, 2021), 29 U.S.C. secs. 653, 655, 657","instrument":"VOSHA Emergency Temporary Standard for the protection of healthcare workers from COVID-19 (29 C.F.R. part 1910, subpart U: 1910.502 Healthcare; 1910.504 Mini Respiratory Protection Program; 1910.505 Severability; 1910.509 Incorporation by Reference), as adopted and posted by VOSHA July 13, 2021","title":"Subpart U, COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (Healthcare), as adopted by VOSHA","dateIssued":"2021-07-13","effective":"2021-07-13 in Vermont (VOSHA adoption; the federal ETS required State-plan adoption within 30 days of June 21, 2021)","end":"Federal ETS withdrawn (other than recordkeeping) December 27, 2021 (Ex. FED-085); VOSHA listing retained","startDate":"2021-07-13","endDate":"2021-12-27","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","HC","EMP","MASK","COND"],"addressees":["employers (all settings where any employee provides healthcare services or healthcare support services, with the exemptions of 1910.502(a)(2))"],"clause":"(a) Scope and application. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, this section applies to all settings where any employee provides healthcare services or healthcare support services.... (c) COVID-19 plan. (1) The employer must develop and implement a COVID-19 plan for each workplace.","enforcement":"21 V.S.A. sec. 210 (serious: up to $12,675 per violation; willful or repeated: up to $126,749 per violation)","functions":[],"notes":"Every Vermont employer in a setting where any employee provides healthcare services or healthcare support services (hospitals, nursing homes, home health, ambulatory care not meeting the vaccinated-and-screened exemption, embedded clinics) to develop and implement a written COVID-19 plan with a designated safety coordinator and hazard assessment, screen and triage patients and visitors, maintain physical distancing and barriers, provide and require facemasks and respirators, follow standard and transmission-based precautions, clean and disinfect, ventilate, screen and exclude employees, provide paid leave for vaccination and its side effects, train employees, keep a COVID-19 log and report fatalities and hospitalizations; every \u0027must\u0027 is a binding VOSHA Code requirement enforced under 21 V.S.A. sec. 210.","sourceUrl":"https://labor.vermont.gov/sites/labor/files/doc_library/VOSHA%20ETS%20for%20the%20protection%20of%20Healthcare%20Workers%20from%20COVID%2019.pdf","snapshot":"https://labor.vermont.gov/document/vosha-emergency-temporary-standard-protection-healthcare-workers-covid-19","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":685332,"grade":"primary","character":"covid_workplace_rule","description":"","collection":"DUT-VT","url":"/library/DUT-VT-017","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-VT-017","citation":"Vermont Department of Labor, Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration (VOSHA), VOSHA Emergency Temporary Standard for the protection of healthcare workers from COVID-19 (29 C.F.R. part 1910, subpart U: 1910.502 Healthcare; 1910.504 Mini Respiratory Protection Program; 1910.505 Severability; 1910.509 Incorporation by Reference), as adopted and posted by VOSHA July 13, 2021 (Ex. DUT-VT-017)","stateName":"Vermont","related":["FED-085","FED-080","ECO-B-012","SEC-01-001","SEC-02-001","AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-040","DUT-VT-016"]}