Kittitas County COVID-19 Job Safety Requirements

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Kittitas County COVID-19 Job Site Requirements Version 1 – April 21, 2020 21. If an employee reports feeling sick and goes home, the area where that person worked should be immediately disinfected. Disinfection guidance is available at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/disinfecting-building-facility.html Employee Health/Symptoms 22. Create policies which encourage workers to stay home or leave the worksite when feeling sick or when they have been in close contact with a confirmed positive case. If they develop symptoms of acute respiratory illness, they must seek medical attention and inform their employer. 23. Have employees inform their supervisors if they have a sick family member at home with COVID-19. 24. Ask workers to self-identify symptoms of fever, coughing, or shortness of breath each day, before the shift, mid-shift, and at home. If thermometers are used on the job, they shall be ‘no touch’ or ‘no contact.’ 25. If employees have symptoms of acute respiratory illness (i.e. fever, cough, shortness of breath), they must stay home and not come to work until free of symptoms for at least 72 hours, without the use of medicine, as recommended by the CDC. 26. Failure of employees to comply will result in employees being sent home during any applicable Health Order. 27. Employees who do not believe it is safe to work shall be allowed to remove themselves from the worksite and employers must follow the expanded family and medical leave requirements included in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. 28. Any worker coming to work on a construction site in Washington from any state that is not contiguous to Washington must self-quarantine for 14 days to become eligible to work on a job site in Washington. 29. If an employee is confirmed to have COVID-19 infection, employers should inform fellow employees of their possible exposure to COVID-19 in the workplace but maintain confidentiality as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The employer should instruct fellow employees about how to proceed based on the CDC Public Health Recommendations for Community-Related Exposure available at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019- ncov/php/public-health-recommendations.html Job Site Visitors 30. A daily attendance log of all workers and visitors must be kept and retained for at least four weeks. Failure to comply with these requirements, or to provide the materials, schedules and equipment required to comply, will result in shutting down operations on the worksite until the Contractor and/or Property Owner can meet and maintain all requirements. Contractor and/or Property Owner shall post on each job site written compliance with these requirements prior to performing any work.