The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Minnesota
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Minn. Stat. §§ 182.653, subds. 4a-4e; 182.655; Minn. R. ch. 5206
- Issued
- 2014-01-18 Jan. 18, 2014
- Effective
- standing (read as 2014-01-18)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Jan. 18, 2014 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- employers (all employers covered by Minn. Stat. § 182.653, subds. 4a-4e)
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Minnesota DUT-MN
Operative words
Employers must exercise reasonable diligence in evaluating their workplace for the presence of other recognized infectious agents and assure that employees are provided with the rights stated in this chapter. Training must be provided to employees on only those infectious agents to which employees may be routinely exposed; training need not be provided on all infectious agents on the list.
Penalty
§ 182.666 (DUT-MN-007) for violation of a standard under § 182.653 subd. 3.
What it required
Every employer had to evaluate its workplace for recognized infectious agents beyond the listed ones ('The list does not include all infectious agents nor will the list always be current') and provide Right-to-Know training to employees routinely exposed to them, which reached SARS-CoV-2 exposure in workplaces where employees worked with the public or with one another.
Retrieval noteSubp. 1a treats compliance with 29 C.F.R. § 1910.1030 (bloodborne pathogens) as compliance for those agents; subp. 2 requires the commissioner to update the list every two years. MNOSHA's April 2020 guidelines (DUT-MN-014) told employers to 'train their employees about the health hazards relative to COVID-19 exposure', the Right-to-Know duty applied to the new agent.