b'Garys Cornerdisagrees with your response, you may hear again5.Train your employees in the specific rules infrom OSHA with a requirement to perform a RRI orthe plan that govern their site and retrain them Rapid Response Investigation. Now you will have toanytime you make a change to your plancomplete a detailed form and possibly submit a copy6.Consistently and objectively enforce the work of your pandemic protection program (it will help if your program contains an effective date). You willrules in your plan.usually have five working days to complete the RRI7.Do not ignore employee concernstake them and get it to OSHA. If this proves unacceptable, you may see the arrival of an OSHA compliance officerseriously and respond to them in writing if to perform a compliance inspection.advised to do so by counsel.8.Do not substitute your expertise for that Why did I go through all of this? I want to be sure you understand that from a safety and healthof medical professionals. If you question compliance standpoint we are a long way from beinginformation an employee brings to you or back to where we were a year ago. In fact, I do notthat you become aware of, vet it through believe we will be back to that point anytime soon,yourcompanymedicalconsultantand if ever. My crystal ball is becoming cloudy. But fordocument the results and actions you are now, and the remainder of 2020: taking as a result.1.Develop a pandemic protection policy for yourDo not forget that General Duty Clause citations are classified at a minimum as serious and OSHA company (not limited to COVID-19) will not negotiate them down to other than serious. 2.Develop a subpart to that plan for COVID-19 This leaves you with the decision of accepting a serious OSHA citation on your record that could have 3.Develop site specific plans for COVID-19 ata significant effect on your ability to bid work, or to each site at which you will work and considerincur the costs of attempting to defend the citation. all Federal, State and Local regulations andTake safety in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic recommendations for each location seriously and adopt those policies necessary to 4.Stay up to date with all changes issued byprotect your workforce.Federal, State and Local governments that mayrequireanamendmenttoyoursite specific or general planwww.mrca.orgMidwest Roofer 11'