Coronavirus - Safety, Health & Environmental Resources

(updated 12/1/20)

MIOSHA Resources

• Schedule a Free Workplace Tier-Two Consultation:  Businesses across the state can now schedule free COVID-19 safety consultations as a part of the new Ambassador program partnership with NSF International and MIOSHA. 
• COVID Workplace Safety Construction Webinar:  On 11-20-20 Sean Egan, Michigan Director of COVID-19 Workplace Safety answered workplace safety questions related to the requirements outlined in the MIOSHA Emergency Rules related to the construction industry, state expectations and worker’s health and safety requirements.
  

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Cleaning & Disinfecting

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention & EPA

• ​Cleaning and Disinfecting Your Facility
• Cleaning & Disinfecting Environmental Surfaces
• List N: Disinfectants for Use Against SARS-CoV-2
• EPA Expands COVID-19 Disinfectant List​

 Return to Work Resources 

• MIOSHA Workplace Guidelines-Employer
• MIOSHA Workplace Guidelines-Employee
• MIOSHA Construction Industry
• Site Work Plan
• Daily Health Report
• Company Specific Work Operation
• Toolbox Talk
• Job Safety Assessment

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Resources

• Proper Respiratory Use from the US Department of Labor
  When you must wear a respirator to protect yourself against airborne contaminants in your workplace, it is very important to follow proper procedures for putting it on and taking it off.
  
• COVID-19 Job site practices
• Sample Plan for COVID-19 Exposure Prevention, Preparedness, and Response
• Project PPE - Sign up to donate open boxes, leftovers or never used PPE to local medical facilities.  For more information email [email protected]​​

OSHA RESOURCES

• Guidelines on Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19
• Prevent Worker Exposure to COVID-19
• Fact Sheet on protecting workers during a pandemic
• More information on COVID-19

COVID-19 AS RECORDABLE INCIDENT
For details on AGC's role in the revision of OSHA guidelines on limiting the parameters under which COVID-19 is a recordable illness, click here.

OSHA recordkeeping requirements at 29 CFR Part 1904 mandate covered employers record certain work-related injuries and illnesses on their OSHA 300 log.  While 29 CFR 1904.5(b)(2)(viii) exempts recording of the common cold and flu, COVID-19 is a recordable illness when a worker is infected on the job.

​COVID-19 can be a recordable illness if a worker is infected as a result of performing their work-related duties.  However, employers are only responsible for recording cases of COVID-19 if all of the following are met:

1. The case is a confirmed case of COVID-19 (see CDC information on persons under investigation and presumptive positive and laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19);
2. The case is work-related, as defined by 29 CFR 1904.5; and
3. The case involves one or more of the general recording criteria set forth in 29 CFR 1904.7 (e.g. medical treatment beyond first-aid, days away from work).