Clear Law Institute, LLC: Michigan COVID-19 Safe Workplace Training Update

Monday 9 November 2020

Michigan COVID-19 Safe Workplace Training Update

COVID-19 SAFE WORKPLACE TRAINING

Update

November 9, 2020

Clear Law Institute provides compliant and current Covid-19 Safe Workplace training. Our training complies with CDC and OSHA guidelines and the growing number of states mandating COVID-19 workplace safety training. Our Compliance Advisory Team regularly monitors federal and state authorities and updates the training, as needed.

On November 6, 2020, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services issued Guidance for Employers on COVID-19.

Among other things, the Guidance addresses telework, preparedness plans, workplace procedures, health screening, cleaning and disinfecting procedures, and contact tracing.

Importantly, this Guidance “strongly suggests that employers allow their employees to work from home if possible. In order to minimize the presence of individuals gathered in work settings where COVID-19 may spread, employers should only permit in-person work when attendance is strictly required to perform job duties.”

The Guidance further defines a “strict requirement as in-person work” as a “worker [who] is unable to physically complete required job tasks from a remote setting (e.g., like a food service or auto assembly worker, or a job involving protected data that cannot be accessed remotely). It should not be construed as permitting in-person work solely because working remotely may result in decreased productivity or efficiency (i.e., because an employee may be more effective/efficient in person) or because of there may be additional costs related to performing work remotely (i.e., costs for equipment like laptops, VPNs, software licenses).”