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    These guidelines were developed by construction industry groups in response to COVID-19 to allow work to continue safely under the County Health Order. Contractors should prepare a site-specific health and safety plan addressing COVID-19 and adopt industry best practices, including designating a site safety representative. The plan should include protocols for daily health screenings, maintaining social distancing, regularly cleaning high-touch surfaces and shared spaces, and establishing hand washing stations. Workers should follow guidelines such as maintaining social distancing, not sharing tools or phones, and changing before arriving home.

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    These guidelines were developed by construction industry groups in response to COVID-19 to allow work to continue safely under the County Health Order. Contractors should prepare a site-specific health and safety plan addressing COVID-19 and adopt industry best practices, including designating a site safety representative. The plan should include protocols for daily health screenings, maintaining social distancing, regularly cleaning high-touch surfaces and shared spaces, and establishing hand washing stations. Workers should follow guidelines such as maintaining social distancing, not sharing tools or phones, and changing before arriving home.

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    These guidelines were developed by construction industry groups in response to COVID-19 to allow work to continue safely under the County Health Order. Contractors should prepare a site-specific health and safety plan addressing COVID-19 and adopt industry best practices, including designating a site safety representative. The plan should include protocols for daily health screenings, maintaining social distancing, regularly cleaning high-touch surfaces and shared spaces, and establishing hand washing stations. Workers should follow guidelines such as maintaining social distancing, not sharing tools or phones, and changing before arriving home.

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    These guidelines were developed by construction industry groups in response to COVID-19 to allow work to continue safely under the County Health Order. Contractors should prepare a site-specific health and safety plan addressing COVID-19 and adopt industry best practices, including designating a site safety representative. The plan should include protocols for daily health screenings, maintaining social distancing, regularly cleaning high-touch surfaces and shared spaces, and establishing hand washing stations. Workers should follow guidelines such as maintaining social distancing, not sharing tools or phones, and changing before arriving home.

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    COVID-19 Construction Field Safety Guidelines

    These field guidelines have been developed collaboratively by construction


    industry professional organizations, contractors, and workers’ representatives in
    response to the need for work on construction projects that is permissible under the
    Health Officer’s March 31, 2020 Order to continue as safely as possible.
    These guidelines are not all encompassing and may need to be tailored to
    individual construction sites and updated as the COVID-19 pandemic evolves.
    Implementation of these guidelines is within each contractor’s means and
    methods and not a direction from the County of Santa Clara (“County”) related to any
    specific projects.
    Contractors should prepare a new or updated Site-Specific Health and Safety Plan
    to address Covid-19-related issue and are strongly urged to adopt and implement the
    following measures as industry best practices under that safety plan. Also contractors
    should review the latest OSHA COVID-19 Workplace Safety Guidance document
    (https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3990.pdf) as a resource in preparation of
    their Site Specific Health and Safety Plan.
    1. If requested, submit to the appropriate County Representative the new or
    updated Site-Specific Health and Safety Plan consistent with these guidelines.
    2. Establish an assembly point for staff, before the start of work each day that
    complies with the recommended social distancing parameters.
    3. Establish a daily screening protocol for arriving staff, to ensure that potentially
    infected staff do not enter the work site. If workers leave and re-enter the work
    site during the shift, re-screen individuals prior to re-entry into the work site.
    4. Provide a daily tailgate session reviewing site protocols to mitigate potential
    spread of the virus. As information is changing continuously regarding COVID-19,
    these tailgates should occur daily and contractors should document attendance
    and require worker signatures.
    5. Designate a Site Safety Rep (SSR) to monitor and implement all recommended
    safety practices regarding the COVID-19 virus with all contractor staff members.
    Labor supervisors must have the authority, through consultation with the SSR, to
    halt all activities that do not adhere to the COVID-19 safety practices. The SSR
    should have training commensurate with this hazard and all required industrial
    hygiene practices that may be required on the job site. This person will be

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    responsible to maintain supplies of disinfectants and make sure that workers
    follow decontamination, hand washing, and distancing.
    6. Employ a task specific Job Hazard Analysis (JHA).
    7. For work sites where multi-employers share the same work space, inform all
    employers about each site-specific COVID-19 Construction Field Safety Guideline.
    Where one contractor enters the space of another contractor, the most stringent
    guidelines will be followed.
    8. Regularly clean and sanitize trailers, toilets, and other enclosed spaces.
    9. Social distancing must be maintained in elevators and lifts. Establish a regular
    cleaning and disinfection schedule for elevators and lifts.
    10. Establish a cleaning and decontamination protocol prior to entry and exit of the
    job site. Establish a similar cleaning protocol within the job site area.
    11. Establish cleaning and/or hand washing stations within the work areas. They
    should be of sufficient quantity to allow staff to remain within the work areas
    without exiting into break areas. It is critical to adequately maintain these
    stations continuously.
    12. Establish adequate time in the work day to allow for proper cleaning and
    decontamination including prior to leaving the job site for the day.
    13. Ensure easy access to parking, since public transit is limited
    14. Assign a second safety officer to the construction site to ensure protocols are
    being followed.

    Also, as part of the Site Specific Health and Safety Plan contractors should draft
    and implement a Code of Safe Practices that will at a minimum require staff/labor to
    follow the following guidelines during the course of their work:

    a. If you feel sick, or have been exposed to anyone who is sick with COVID-19, stay
    at home. You may be required to provide COVID-19 test result showing a
    negative result (not infected with COVID-19) before being allowed to return to
    work. This is critical to preventing spread of the virus.
    b. Wash hands frequently for at least 20 seconds with soap and water. Avoid
    touching your face with un-sanitized hands. Avoid touching common surfaces
    with bare hands.
    c. Constantly observe your work distances in relation to other staff. Maintain the
    recommended minimum 6 feet separation from one another at all times feasible.
    Do not shake hands or make other unnecessary direct contact with other staff.

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    Do not carpool with other staff unless they are family members living within your
    household.
    d. Do not share phones. Use of microwaves, water coolers, and other similar group
    equipment for breaks is suspended until further notice.
    e. Clean personal tools prior to use, as well as group tools.
    f. Disposable paper towels and similar waste must be deposited in non-touch waste
    bins.
    g. Do not cough or sneeze into your hand; rather, direct coughs and sneezes into a
    cloth or tissue or, if not available, the crook of your arm at your elbow; follow
    established CDC guidelines.
    h. Workers should change work clothes and shoes prior to arriving at home. All
    clothing should not be shook out. Launder work clothes separate from other
    laundry.

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