{"id":"DUT-MN-010","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Minnesota","state":"MN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (MNOSHA), Employee Right-to-Know standard under Minn. Stat. § 182.653, subds. 4a-4e, and § 182.655","authority":"Minn. Stat. §§ 182.653, subds. 4a-4e; 182.655; Minn. R. ch. 5206","instrument":"Minn. R. 5206.0600 (Employee Right-to-Know: Infectious Agents)","title":"Employee Right-to-Know Standard, Infectious Agents: employers\u0027 duty to evaluate the workplace for recognized infectious agents and to train routinely exposed employees","dateIssued":"2014-01-18","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2014-01-18","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["employers (all employers covered by Minn. Stat. § 182.653, subds. 4a-4e)"],"clause":"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.","enforcement":"§ 182.666 (DUT-MN-007) for violation of a standard under § 182.653 subd. 3.","functions":[],"notes":"Every employer had to evaluate its workplace for recognized infectious agents beyond the listed ones (\u0027The list does not include all infectious agents nor will the list always be current\u0027) 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.","sourceUrl":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/pdf/5206.0600/2014-01-18%2006:27:00+00:00","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":102347,"grade":"primary","character":"workplace_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-MN","url":"/library/DUT-MN-010","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MN-010","citation":"Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry (MNOSHA), Employee Right-to-Know standard under Minn. Stat. § 182.653, subds. 4a-4e, and § 182.655, Minn. R. 5206.0600 (Employee Right-to-Know: Infectious Agents) (standing) (Ex. DUT-MN-010)","stateName":"Minnesota","related":["DUT-MN-014","DUT-MN-007"]}