The non-emergency Covid-19 rule of Cal/Osha, according to which employers have to take measures to combat covid-19 dangers, will expire on February 3, 2025. However, employers still have to comply with several obligations after this date. First, the record requirements of Cal/Osha remain in force until February 3, 2026. Second, the program for the employer's injury and illness prevail (IIPP) must still be applicable to the associated COVID-19 hazards.
Recording requirements
At least next year, employers will continue to have all COVID 19 cases with the name of the employee, the contact information, the profession, the place, the place, the employee, the date of the last day at the workplace and the date of the positive covid. Record -19 Test or Covid-19 diagnosis. While this exercise only has a limited benefit, since the requirements for tracking and excluding employees with COVID-19 expire from the construction site, employers should continue to record these COVID 19 case details next year.
The section “Non-Notfall rule” of recording the records of non-emergencies also demanded that employers to be informed of the termination to employees who had close contact was given “in accordance with section 6409.6” for the Labor Act. “Since the announcement of the rule has expired and the associated work code determination has already expired, employers do not seem to have a continuous obligation to provide communications to conclude contacts.
CAL/OSHA injury and prevention prevention Standard (“IIPP”)
Employers should continue to receive COVID-19 dangers through their IIPP as required. The good news is that depending on the type of identified danger, employers flexibly determine which corrective measures are required. After Covid-19 has become endemic, employers can certainly take the position that many measures during the pandemic are no longer necessary in view of the developing results of the disease. With the flexibility, however, the uncertainty comes, so that some employers can remain conservative in this regard.
What to do now
In 2025, Cal/Osha is expected to consider a permanent standard for infectious diseases for most employers who apply for future infectious diseases (not only Covid-19). If this standard were used, this standard would impose new requirements for combating infectious diseases including COVID-19. In the meantime, we recommend California employers:
- Log COVID-19 cases until February 3, 2026, as required after the Cal/Osha Covid-19-not emergency rules; And
- Keep the reduced procedures to combat Covid-19 at the workplace, which meet the general requirements of the IIPP standard and, if necessary, under your circumstances.