{"id":3013,"date":"2021-08-17T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2021-08-17T16:04:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T20:04:29","slug":"ny-businesses-now-required-to-have-plan-for-airborne-infectious-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/ny-businesses-now-required-to-have-plan-for-airborne-infectious-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Businesses Now Required to Have Plan for Airborne Infectious Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ever since the novel Coronavirus began making its notorious entry into the world and as metropolitan areas like NYC saw the worst spread of infectious disease across the nation, rules were put in place to help stop the spread. From social distancing to masking and lockdowns. Fast forward over 17 months later and we\u2019re still looking at the threats from additional variants of this disease as a population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the hard-hit New York area, new rules and regulations are emerging to protect businesses and their employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gears were set in motion back in May 2021 with the passage of the New York Health and Essential Rights Act \u2013 also known as the \u201cHERO Act\u201d which is basically health and safety laws mandating protections for employees amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes any workplaces that are operating in-person operations to comply with all health and safety directives and executive orders and applies to all private employers with up to 1 employee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An additional law that\u2019s also been put in place now is the\nrequirement that all workplaces have an Infectious Disease Exposure Prevention\nPlan (IDEPP<\/a>)\nin place. Some of the things like employee health screenings, face coverings,\nPPE, accessible hand hygiene materials and break time and cleaning and\ndisinfecting rules as well as social distancing rules, and more are included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developed by the New York State Department of Labor (NYS\nDOL), in consultation with the NYS Department of Health, the standards are a\ntemplate that workplaces can model their plans from. They also have the choice\nto create their own plans but they must at minimum meet the state\u2019s outlined\nstandards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these laws have an ultimate goal of protecting New\nYork workers from airborne infectious diseases during an outbreak now \u2013 and in\nthe future. Whenever the New York State Commissioner declares a risk is in\nplace for the public, these plans will be put into effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employers had an August 5 deadline\nfor adopting a standard relevant to their industry and now have until September\n4 to provide written details of this prevention plan to employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since the novel Coronavirus began making its notorious entry into the world and as metropolitan areas like NYC saw the worst spread of infectious disease across the nation, rules were put in place to help stop the spread. From social distancing to masking and lockdowns. Fast forward over 17 months later and we\u2019re still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petruzelo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}