Kentucky Healthy at Work - Requirements for Manufacturing, Distribution, and Supply Chain

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Social Distancing Requirements

Businesses must ensure that each employee is able to maintain six (6) foot distance between themselves and others for their entire shift. Controls must be established and maintained when six (6) feet of physical distancing is not feasible. This includes installation of portable or permanent non-porous physical barriers (e.g., plexiglass shields), high-efficiency air filters, increased ventilation, or PPE. Production practices should be modified, to the greatest extent practicable, to enforce adequate social distancing.
Businesses should, to the greatest extent practicable, stagger the schedules for work shifts, breaks, and lunches to reduce the number of employees on-site, entering, exiting, or gathering at one time. This also reduces the number of employeessimultaneously reporting to time clock stations to record their work and break time.
Businesses should consider an alternative to a high-touch time clock system. If using an alternative system is not possible, the businesses should sanitize the time clock system after each use.
Businesses should seek to limit activities that require employees to enter within six (6) feet or less of another person, regardless of whether they have installed non-porous, physical barriers.
Businesses must ensure that all gatherings are kept to a minimum, appropriate social distancing is observed at all times, and meetings are held by telephone or video conferencing to the greatest extent practicable.
Businesses must restrict access to common areas in order to maximize social distancing and reduce congregating. These common areas include, but are not limited to, waiting rooms, breakrooms, water fountains, and vending areas. Businesses restricting access to water fountains must provide alternative water sources for employees in lieu of water fountains.
Businesses must ensure minimal interaction between drivers at loading docks, doorsteps, or other locations.
Businesses must reduce traffic and congregating, to the greatest extent practicable, in locker rooms and changing rooms. Lockers may be used but should be cleaned and sanitized consistent with CDC guidelines. Lockers should not be shared.
Businesses must ensure, where applicable, limitations on use and number of people riding in a vehicles together. If more than one person in a vehicle is unavoidable, then employees should maximize social distancing and wear face coverings in the vehicle. Employers are required to thoroughly sanitize company vehicles after any employees were inside.

Cleaning and Disinfecting Requirements

Businesses must ensure cleaning and sanitation of frequently touched equipment, tools, objects, and surfaces with appropriate disinfectants. Appropriate disinfectants include EPA registered household disinfectants, diluted household bleach solution, and alcohol solutions containing at least 60% alcohol. Businesses must establish a cleaning and disinfecting process that follows CDC guidelines when any individual is identified, suspected, or confirmed COVID-19 case.
Businesses must ensure that shared touched surfaces must be cleaned on a recurring basis consistent with CDC guidelines. This includes, but is not limited to: vehicle/ equipment door handles; keys; gear shifts; steering wheel/operator controls and levers; door knobs; light switches; phones; computers/keyboards; copiers; elevator buttons; toilets; faucets; sinks; countertops; paper towel dispensers; desktops; handrails; counters; tables; and cabinets and knobs.
Businesses must ensure that employees wipe their workstations down with disinfectant at the end of their shift or at any time they discontinue use of their workstations for a significant period of time.
Businesses must ensure that disinfecting wipes or other disinfectant are available at shared equipment.
Businesses, as appropriate, must ensure that workers do not use cleaning procedures that could re-aerosolize infectious particles. This includes, but is not limited to, avoiding practices such as dry sweeping or use of high-pressure streams of air, water, or cleaning chemicals.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements

Businesses must ensure that appropriate face coverings and other personal protective equipment (PPE) is used by employees so long as such use does not jeopardize the employees’ health or safety. Businesses must train employees to use PPE. This training includes: when to use PPE; what PPE is necessary; and how to properly put on, use, and remove PPE.
Businesses must train employees to properly dispose of or disinfect PPE, inspect PPE for damage, maintain PPE, and the limitations of PPE.
Businesses must follow CDC, OSHA, and other federal guidelines relating to gloves for managers and employees.
Pursuant to Executive Order 2020-586 and 902 KAR 2010E, which are attached to this document, all businesses must ensure that all customers, vendors, contractors, and any other member of the public who enters the premises wear a face covering so long as they are not subject to any of the exemptions listed in the Executive Order. If any person attempts to enter the business without a face covering, the business must inform them of the requirement to wear a face covering. If the individual refuses and is not subject to any of the exemptions listed in the Executive Order, the individual must not be permitted entry onto the premises. If an individual who was previously wearing a face covering removes it while on the premises and not subject to any of the exemptions listed in the Executive Order, the business must ask them to put it back on. If the individual refuses to do so, the business must not provide them service and must ask them to leave. Businesses who fail to follow these requirements of the Executive Order will be subject to a fine and may also be subject to an order from a local health department or the Labor Cabinet requiring immediate closure."

Training and Safety Requirements for Manufacturing Businesses

Businesses must make available and post information to reinforce Healthy at Work requirements. Businesses must provide special accommodations for employees for persons at higher risk for severe illness per CDC guidelines.
Businesses must ensure that employees are instructed to avoid touching their faces, including their eyes, noses, and mouths, particularly until after they have thoroughly washed their hands upon completing work and/or removing PPE, to the greatest extent practicable.
Businesses must ensure that employees are informed that they may identify and communicate potential improvements and/or concerns in order to reduce potential risk of exposure at the workplace. All education and training must be communicated in the language best understood by the individual receiving the education and training.