{"id":"DUT-FED-061","kind":"duty","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (joint)","authority":"42 U.S.C. 241; 29 U.S.C. 654(a)(1) (OSHA\u0027s enforcement plan measures the general duty clause against this guidance)","instrument":"Meat and Poultry Processing Workers and Employers: Interim Guidance from CDC and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) (Apr. 26, 2020)","title":"Meat and Poultry Processing Workers and Employers: Interim Guidance from CDC and OSHA","dateIssued":"2020-04-26","effective":"2020-04-26","end":"updated July 9, 2020 (Ex. DUT-FED-062)","startDate":"2020-04-26","endDate":"2020-07-09","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["EMP","MASK","QUAR","SUPPLY"],"addressees":["meat and poultry processing employers"],"clause":"CDC\u0027s Critical Infrastructure Guidance advises that critical infrastructure workers may be permitted to continue work following potential exposure to COVID-19, provided they remain asymptomatic and additional precautions are implemented to protect them and the community. All meat and poultry processing facilities developing plans for continuing operations in the setting of COVID-19 occurring among workers or in the surrounding community should (1) work directly with appropriate state and local public health officials and occupational safety and health professionals; (2) incorporate relevant aspects of CDC guidance, including but not limited to this document and the CDC\u0027s Critical Infrastructure Guidance; and (3) incorporate guidance from other authoritative sources or regulatory bodies as needed.","enforcement":"none in the guidance; the general duty clause supplied the sanction","functions":[],"notes":"Recommendation: line distancing and barriers, cohorting, screening, face coverings, staggered shifts, cleaning and exposure response in meat and poultry plants. Executive Order 13917 (Apr. 28, 2020) directed the Secretary of Agriculture to keep plants operating \u0027consistent with the guidance for their operations jointly issued by the CDC and OSHA\u0027 (Ex. FED-073), and the Secretary\u0027s May 5, 2020 letters directed processors to follow it (Ex. AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-002); OSHA\u0027s Smithfield and JBS general duty clause citations followed (Exs. DUT-FED-015, -016). Character as recorded: agency_guidance_recommendation (\u0027should\u0027; \u0027may be permitted\u0027), incorporated by Executive Order 13917 and the USDA Secretary\u0027s letters of May 5, 2020.","sourceUrl":"https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/87280/cdc_87280_DS1.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210924222338/https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/87280/cdc_87280_DS1.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":442294,"grade":"primary","character":"agency_guidance_recommendation","description":"","collection":"DUT-FED","url":"/library/DUT-FED-061","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-FED-061","citation":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (joint), Meat and Poultry Processing Workers and Employers: Interim Guidance from CDC and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) (Apr. 26, 2020) (Ex. DUT-FED-061)","stateName":"","related":["DUT-FED-062","FED-073","AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-002","DUT-FED-015"]}