Last night Governor Lamont issued Executive Order number 7V, his 23rd since declaring a public health emergency due to COVID-19. This latest order is primarily directed at business owners with new rules to keep workers in essential businesses safe.
The governor's Safe Workplace Rules for Essential Employers stresses these points:
- All essential employees who CAN work from home, SHOULD work from home, if they are not already doing so.
- All non-essential workplace travel should now be eliminated.
- All businesses should institute strict controls on visitors entering their site, including prohibiting non-essential visitors and using hand sanitizers at entrances.
- Elimination of all in-person meetings.
- Provide masks for employees where close contact is unavoidable.
- In essential manufacturing and assembly businesses, stagger work shifts, lunch breaks, etc. to spread out workers and increase working distances.
- Increase frequency of cleaning and sanitizing of all high touch surfaces.
There several additional pages of guidance that every owner of an essential business should read. The full list of safe workplace rules is posted on the state website at the Department of Community and Economic Development. Learn more here.
The full text of Governor Lamont's Executive Order 7V and all previous orders can be downloaded here.
Finally, I think that overall, our residents are doing a terrific job of keeping themselves and their families safe. Let's all keep up the good work, and we will get through this. This morning I read a great quote:
For now, we have to stay apart so we can stay together