The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Ohio
- Level
- State
- Authority
- R.C. 3701.13 (Ex. DUT-OH-001), through the Director's Orders that incorporated the document
- Issued
- 2020-04-27 Apr. 27, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-04 (Ex. OH-019 para. 11); written into Ex. OH-025 para. 15 from May 29, 2020; posted amendments incorporated by reference by Ex. OH-098 para. 2 from July 6, 2020 (read as 2020-05-04)
- End
- 2021-04-05 (rescission of the May 29, 2020 order, Ex. OH-046 para. 5) (read as 2021-04-05)
- In force
- May 4, 2020 to Apr. 5, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Telework mandateFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesOperating condition
- Addressees
- employers operating general office environments
- Character
- guidance incorporated
- Collection
- Standing duties: Ohio DUT-OH
Operative words
Mandatory: Ensure minimum 6 ft between people, if not possible, install barriers; Personnel should work from home when possible; Employees must perform daily symptom assessment*; Face coverings must be worn at all times while working; Establish maximum capacity (e.g. 50% of fire code). Temperature taking protocol
Penalty
As a condition of the Director's Orders: R.C. 3701.352 and 3701.99(C) (misdemeanor of the second degree)
What it required
Made distancing or barriers, employee face coverings 'at all times while working,' daily symptom assessment, exclusion of symptomatic employees, handwashing, disinfection, cancellation of in-person events where distancing could not be met and a maximum capacity the mandatory conditions of operating a general office in Ohio from May 4, 2020 (the 'Mandatory' column, carried into the order text of Ex. OH-025 para. 15 with 'are to take the following actions,' 'Ensure,' 'must'); the telework item sits in the Mandatory column but is phrased 'Personnel should work from home when possible,' and the order text repeats it with 'should';
Retrieval noteThe live ODH URL now redirects to odh.ohio.gov (404). The Internet Archive was offline for part of the session and its CDX index was still returning an error page when service resumed, so the tool was given the raw capture URL (web.archive.org/web/20200428101702id_/...) and retrieved the PDF by its live method; the sha256 is of that file. Two-column document ('Mandatory' | 'Recommended Best Practices') with rows for Employees & Guests, Physical Spaces / Workstations and Confirmed Cases; the order text of Ex. OH-025 para. 15 reproduces the Mandatory column. The sibling document for manufacturing, distribution and construction is in the library as Ex. SEC-11-030.