The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Ohio
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Ohio Rev. Code § 3701.13; Director's Stay Safe Ohio Order (Apr. 30, 2020) § 13 et seq. (business requirements)
- Issued
- 2020-04-27 Apr. 27, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-04 (published Apr. 27, 2020. (read as 2020-05-04)
- End
- Ohio health orders rescinded June 2, 2021 (read as 2021-06-02)
- In force
- May 4, 2020 to June 2, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- manufacturing, distribution and construction businesses; employees, distributors and guests
- Functions reached
- WH (distancing or barriers, staggered arrivals and shifts, capacity, face coverings at all times)
- DR (drivers as 'guests' at Ohio distribution centers)
- MT
- OP (work from home where possible)
- WF (daily symptom assessment; exclusion)
- Collection
- Logistics, Warehousing and Wholesale SEC-11
Operative words
Mandatory: Ensure minimum 6 ft between people, if not possible, install barriers; Employees must perform daily symptom assessment; Require employees to stay home if symptomatic; Face coverings must be worn at all times; Require regular handwashing; Stagger or limit arrivals of employees and guests; Personnel should work from home if possible; Daily disinfection of desks and workstations; Change shift patterns (e.g. fewer shifts); Stagger lunch and break times;... Space factory floor to allow for distancing; Regulate max number of people in cafeterias/common spaces; Establish maximum capacity (e.g. 50% of fire code); Immediately isolate and seek medical care for any individual who develops symptoms while at work; Contact the local health district about suspected cases or exposures; Shutdown shop/floor for deep sanitation if possible.
Enforcement
Ohio Rev. Code § 3701.352 and § 3701.99 (violation of a Director's order: second-degree misdemeanor)
Notes
One of the few State documents that names 'Distribution' as a sector with its own mandatory requirements; the Stay Safe Ohio Order made the sector sheets binding.
Retrieval noteSheet text read; the incorporating Order's section number is to be pinned from the Ohio State file.