The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Washington
- Level
- State
- Authority
- RCW 49.17.010,.040,.050,.060; RCW 34.05.350 (emergency rule)
- Issued
- 2020-05-13 May 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-18
- End
- 120 days; renewed Sept. 10, 2020 (WSR 20-19-049) and Jan. 8, 2021 (WSR 21-03-0xx L&I companion to 21-03-012); 2021-season renewals not read (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- May 18, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- operators of licensed temporary worker housing (growers, H-2A employers, labor contractors)
- Functions reached
- LB housing capacity cut (top bunks barred; cohorts of fifteen)
- FP crews
- WF
- Collection
- Agriculture and Food Processing SEC-20
Operative words
The emergency rule requires operators: Educate occupants... on COVID-19; Provide occupants cloth face coverings; Ensure physical distancing of occupants when at housing sites, which includes all cooking, eating, bathing, washing, recreational, and sleeping facilities; Ensure frequent cleaning and disinfecting of surfaces; Identify and isolate occupants with suspect and confirmed positive cases; and Submit to DOH a revised temporary worker housing management plan... The physical distancing requirements of the emergency rule otherwise prohibit the use of the top bunk of bunk beds.
Enforcement
WISHA citations and penalties (chapter 49.17 RCW); DOH licensing (chapter 70.114A RCW)
Notes
Group-shelter option: cohorts of up to fifteen 'for housing, work, and transportation.'