By Ruth Kiefer, Vice President of Loss Control, MSc, ARM
As the days continue, and COVID-19 is still here, so should your commitment of keeping your employees safe during this time. Employee complaints to MIOSHA have exponentially increased and they are out in force checking up on the employers. If you are lucky enough to get a knock at the door and see a smiling MiOSHA inspector standing there, you must let them in. Have them follow your COVID-19 visitor requirements of signing in, answering a health screening, and maybe even take their temperature, if that is in your written program. Please know, that temperature taking is currently not required by any of the issued Executive Orders(EO). We are on EO-175, at the time I am writing this article. Once the MIOSHA inspector has followed your sign-in protocols, you will need to escort them to your conference room, where they will ask to talk to your designated representative who is responsible for your COVID-19 Response & Preparedness Plan, if this person is not on site, you must have a second designated person, as required by your plan, who is also in charge of the program. This is called redundancy and there must be a person on site who is familiar with your plan in case there is an employee that has a question or who thinks they are sick.
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