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Executive Order No. 7V

Protection of Public Health and Safety During COVID-19 Pandemic and Response - Safe Workplaces in Essential Businesses and Other Measures

Governor Ned Lamont; DECD (Safe Workplace Rules for Essential Employers) · Connecticut (State)

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Jurisdiction
Connecticut
Level
State
Authority
Conn. Gen. Stat. sections 19a-131a and 28-9
Issued
2020-04-07 Apr. 7, 2020
Effective
2020-04-07 (rules due 5:00 p.m.) (read as 2020-04-07)
End
Safe Workplace Rules remained in effect for essential businesses not subject to Sector Rules (EO 7PP s.1(g)); superseded by EO 11A (Apr. 19, 2021) and repealed May 20, 2021 (EO 12B); s.6 civil-liability protection to Mar. 1, 2021 for facilities (EO 10A s.4) (read as 2021-04-19)
In force
Apr. 7, 2020 to Apr. 19, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • every workplace in the State
  • essential businesses and nonprofits and any other business permitted to operate
Functions reached
  • PF production floor
  • WH warehouse
  • JS job sites
  • OF offices of essential employers
  • HR screening and training
  • EMP written protocols, distancing, masks, cleaning
Collection
Connecticut CT

Operative words

Every workplace in the State of Connecticut shall take additional protective measures to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 between and among employees, customers, and other persons such as delivery drivers, maintenance people or others who may enter the workplace. The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, in consultation with the Commissioner of Public Health, shall issue legally binding statewide rules prescribing such additional protective measures no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 7, 2020. Such rules shall be mandatory throughout the state, for essential businesses and nonprofits and any other business or nonprofit permitted to operate, and shall supersede and preempt any current or future municipal order.

Enforcement

Conn. Gen. Stat. section 28-22; DECD legally binding rules

Notes

The DECD Safe Workplace Rules for Essential Employers (face coverings, six-foot distancing, staggered shifts, cleaning, visitor limits) were updated for masks by EO 7BB and 7NNN.