Builders ask Inslee to chart a path to restart construction
OLYMPIA — Six statewide labor and business organizations have presented Gov. Jay Inslee a detailed approach for restarting the construction industry in a way that assures workers are adequately protected against exposure to coronavirus.
In a letter delivered Tuesday, they suggest that residential and commercial projects under way when the governor issued his March stay-home order should now be permitted to start up again — but only if contractors can abide by additional rules to ensure work “is done safely so as to not take a step backward in this pandemic fight.”
Protocols recommended by the group include requiring contractors to develop and post at each job site a comprehensive COVID-19 exposure control, mitigation and recovery plan. This would cover maintaining social distancing on-site, use of personal protective equipment, symptom monitoring and decontamination should it become known that a worker tests positive.
Every site must have a supervisor designated to monitor the health of employees and enforce the plan.
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