So my advisors have summarized the new Cal-OSHA COVID rules for the campgrounds and parks we operate. We operate over 200 often small parks in CA. With that in mind, a partial list is below. Spoiler alert: It is Soviet-level micromanagement and bureaucratization
1. Compile daily written verification that each work area is compliant with the components of this plan. Each written verification form must be copied, stored, and made immediately available upon request.
2. Conduct DAILY briefings in person or by teleconference that must cover the following topics (a-f)
a. New office rules and restrictions for the prevention of covid-19 community spread.
b. Review of sanitation and hygiene procedures.
c. Solicitation of worker feedback on improving safety and sanitation.
d. Coordination of premise daily cleaning/sanitation requirements.
e. Conveying updated information regarding covid-19.
f. Emergency protocols in the event of an exposure or suspected exposure to covid-19.
3. Develop and ensure implementation of a remediation plan to address any non-compliance with this plan's protocols and post plan at entrance and exit of the location during remediation period.
4. SCO will not permit any commercial activity to continue without bringing such activity into compliance.
5. Maintain a daily attendance log of all workers and visitors that includes contact information, including name, address, phone number and email. All visitors and employees to fill out and sign questionnaire.
5 (cont) Deny entry to someone who refuses to answer questionnaire, or answers yes to any questions.
6. In the event of an infected worker: each location the worker was at must be decontaminated and sanitized by an outside vendor certified in hazmat clean-ups and work in these locations must cease until decontamination and sanitization is complete.
I don't know which of these is the worst. Getting signed forms from every park visitor is hard, particularly when some locations are unmanned and some have thousands of visitors. It does seem like the hazmat clean-up industry has muscular lobbyists, though.
Have you been in a corporate meeting where a bunch of junior folks are wildly brainstorming action plans, only to have the list culled by some more sr. person who weeds out all the crazy, impractical,& low-return stuff? Well, this is what you get when no one does that latter task
It is the classic runaway of government regulation in the absence of cost-benefit analysis. Once you give in just once to the argument that it is impossible to balance anything at all against the merest chance of saving a life, then the process runs away to stuff just like this.
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