The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Nevada
- Level
- State
- Authority
- NRS 618.295, 618.383
- Effective
- standing regulation in force throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (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 (written safety program: all employers; safety committee: more than 25 employees)
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Nevada DUT-NV
Operative words
a written safety program must include:... (b) An explanation of the methods used to identify, analyze and control new and existing hazardous conditions;... (e) A method for ensuring that employees comply with the safety rules and work practices.
Penalty
NRS 618.625-618.655: administrative fines for violation of any 'standard, rule, regulation or order promulgated or prescribed pursuant to this chapter'
What it required
Every employer's written safety program (required by NRS 618.383) must explain the methods used to identify, analyze and control new hazardous conditions and contain a method for ensuring that employees comply with the safety rules and work practices; Nevada OSHA's COVID-19 guidance invoked NAC 618.540(1)(e) as the mechanism by which an employer enforces its distancing, sanitation and face-covering protocols against its own workforce.
Retrieval noteNevada OSHA's May 29, 2020 guidance: where distancing protocols are not followed 'the employee will be subject to the employer's existing methods established for ensuring compliance with safety rules and work practices per NAC 618.540(1)(e)' (Ex. AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-030). The chapter text read for this record does not itself contain a general adoption by reference of 29 C.F.R. Part 1910; Nevada OSHA's guidance nevertheless cited 29 C.F.R. 1910.1030 (bloodborne pathogens) and 29 C.F.R. 1926.15 as 'Required' federal standards enforced in Nevada (Exs. AGY-ST-LABOR-WORKPLACE-028, -030), and the State plan enforces the federal standards it has adopted under NRS 618.295; Chapter page renders at about 112 pages.