The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- South Carolina
- Level
- State
- Authority
- SC OSHA, Employers Fact Sheet (Mar. 28, 2020)
- Issued
- 2020-03-28 Mar. 28, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-28
- End
- standing guidance through 2021 Q3 (still posted) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Mar. 28, 2020 (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 rules
- Addressees
- Character
- recommendation only
- Collection
- Standing duties: South Carolina DUT-SC
Operative words
Employers should start taking steps now, and should be using all resources necessary to prepare for and respond to the outbreak. In addition to normal hazard-prevention strategies, like engineering controls or personal protective equipment for specific hazards, all employers should now develop and implement infectious disease safety strategies
Penalty
none; a recommendation whose legal effect arises from Act No. 99 § 3(5) and § 4 (SC OSHA guidance is 'public health guidance'; immunity requires reasonable adherence) and from the general duty of § 41-15-80 as SC OSHA stated it three weeks later in mandatory terms (Ex. DUT-SC-014)
What it required
Recommends (verb 'should') that every employer implement worksite-specific social distancing including worker and customer interactions, post educational posters, encourage sick employees to stay home, promote handwashing, encourage respiratory etiquette, discourage sharing of utensils, desks, phones and tools, and maintain housekeeping and disinfection.
Retrieval noteRecorded as a recommendation because its verbs are 'should', 'encourage', 'promote' and 'discourage'. It is the first SC OSHA COVID-19 instrument (March 28, 2020), issued between the dine-in suspension of March 18 (Ex. SC-003) and the closure orders of March 31 and April 3, 2020 (Exs. SC-010, SC-011).