The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 42 U.S.C. 241, 247d
- Issued
- 2020-05-06 May 6, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-06
- End
- revised Mar. 8, 2021 and later (read as 2021-03-08)
- In force
- May 6, 2020 to Mar. 8, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- all businesses and employers (non-healthcare)
- Character
- agency guidance recommendation
- Collection
- Standing duties: Federal layer DUT-FED
Operative words
Below are changes as of May 6, 2020: Updated strategies and recommendations for employers responding to COVID-19, including those seeking to resume normal or phased business operations: Conducting daily health checks; Conducting a hazard assessment of the workplace; Encouraging employees to wear cloth face coverings in the workplace, if appropriate; Implementing policies and practices for social distancing in the workplace; Improving the building ventilation system... personal protective equipment (PPE) that employers may use to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace.
Penalty
What it required
Recommendation: daily health checks (screening), a workplace hazard assessment, cloth face coverings, distancing policies and ventilation improvements, the content OSHA's enforcement plan and the State reopening orders adopted for 2020Q2 through 2021Q1. Character as recorded: agency_guidance_recommendation ('should'; 'may').
Retrieval noteThe text says 'changes as of May 6, 2020'); The CDC Stacks PDF of the same May 2020 document is at https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/88409/cdc_88409_DS1.pdf.