Generally in all sectors, employees should be screened for symptoms as they enter the building to begin work. Employers should request from vendors and contractors coming on site health assessments and travel history. Generally in all sectors, employees should be screened for fever as they enter the building to begin work. Require employees experiencing symptoms at work to immediately notify their leader. Restaurant employees that test positive shall be immediately reported to the Department of Health.

Personal care services, retail, restaurants and offices must ask employees to confirm they do not have symptoms. Employees should take their own temperature before they go to work.

Employers are urged to screen employees before entering the workplace for COVID-19 symptoms. Each employee should have their temperature taken before entering the workplace.

Employers should conduct health assessments at the beginning of their employee’s shifts. Personal care services should also screen customers for symptoms prior to their appointment.  Testing, isolating, and contact tracing should be done in collaboration with public health authorities.

Employees should be screened for symptoms daily by asking specified questions, as well as have their temperature documented before their shift.  To monitor and investigate cases work with state and local officials.

Agriculture employees must be screen symptoms and take temperatures prior to their entry to work.  Agriculture employers must notify the local public health department immediately if a case is suspected.

Prior to entering work employees should be screened for symptoms either verbally or through a text/app-based questionnaire. Retailers should screen customer and employee temperatures before they enter the premises.

As part of phase 1 reopening employers must screen employees and essential visitors.  Non-essential businesses must implement mandatory employee/contractor health screening questionnaires. Customer screening will depend on industry. Reopening employers should include temperature checks as part of their daily screening. Non-essential businesses must implement mandatory employee/contractor temperature checks. Customer screening will depend on industry. Certain industries may require employees to disclose if they experience symptoms, including outside work hours (e.g., retail). Immediately notify state and local health departments of confirmed cases.

Open businesses must screen employees daily before they enter through the workplace and this should include a questionnaire.

Employers may check employee temperatures upon their arrival to work. If an employee calls out sick employers may ask employees who call out sick about symptoms.

Conduct daily health assessments of employees (self-evaluation) to determine if fit for duty. Immediately report employee or customer infections to the local health district.

Administrative offices should screen employees for symptoms through a health questionnaire. Admin offices should check employee temperatures each day.

Employers should consider regular employee health checks, or symptom self-reporting. Personal care services must screen clients for symptoms prior to their appointments. Once testing is readily available, test all suspected infections or exposures, if possible. Employers should consider daily temperature checks. Personal care services should consider temperature checks for clients. Contact the local health district about suspected cases or exposures of employees or clients.

Employers must detail their monitoring and screening process of staff prior to entering the workplace.

Implement temperature screening before an employee enters the business or starts work. Employees should be notified if they were in close contact with an infected person in accordance with confidentiality laws. 

Businesses should symptom screen employees and visitors who enter the establishment, including verbally or by app or phone. Businesses may supplement symptom screening with temperature checks. Do not disclose the name of employees who test positive to other employees. Immediately notify the Department of Health if an employee tests positive. 

Employers can collect the following if an employee reports a positive test:

1. date of onset of symptoms

2. date and location of test

3. date test results received

4. instructions provided by healthcare providers

5. who the employee was in close contact with.

Employers need to know when an employee tests positive to conduct coworker exposure assessments. Employees should be notified of close contact or potential exposure; maintain confidentiality when providing notifications.

Negative test results are not required for returning employees if:

1. 10 days have passed since symptoms began

2. there is no fever for 24 hours

3. other symptoms have improved.

Where/when appropriate, screen employees for symptoms prior to entering the workplace.

Employers can screen all employees for symptoms with specified questions. Employers can take temperatures onsite each day upon arrival at work.

Employers should screen employees for symptoms and close contacts before coming into the business. Employers should screen for a fever or a measured temperature.

All employees who are, or work with, high risk populations should undergo daily screening/symptom monitoring. Fitness centers and personal care services - all employees must be checked for symptoms at the beginning of their shift. Fitness center employees must be temperature screened before every shift. Fitness centers and personal care services must keep a log of daily screenings that can be made available for inspection by the health department.

Symptom-screening or surveys may be implemented prior to each work shift. Temperature checks may be administered prior to each work shift.

Employees can be screened prior to their shift - a screening questionnaire may be used. Employers can use a symptom or test-based strategy for employees returning from sick leave; serological tests cannot be used to make decisions about returning employees. Employers with established occupational health programs can consider measuring temperatures prior to each employee's shift and implement policies and procedures for employees to report symptoms in the workplace, and positive test results by employers and subcontractors. Notify employees who may have been exposed within 24 hours of discovery of their possible exposure; keep identity of the infected employee confidential. Notify the Department of Health within 24 hours of discovery and the Department of Labor and Industry within 24 hour of discovery of 3 or more infected employees present in the workplace within a 14 day period. Report infections to building/facility owners and other employers whose employees were present in the workplace during the same period of time. Ensure employee access to their own COVID-19 disease related exposure and medical records. Document which CDC and/or State guidance being complied with.