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Version 6 15 2020 COVID-19 Preparedness Plan for the City of Elk River, Minnesota Elk River is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for our workers, customers, and visitors. To ensure we have a safe and healthy workplace, we have developed the following COVID-19 Preparedness Plan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Managers and workers are all responsible for implementing this plan. Our goal is to mitigate the potential for transmission of COVID-19 in our workplaces and communities, and that requires full cooperation among our workers and management. Only through this cooperative effort can we establish and maintain the safety and health of all persons in our workplaces. The COVID-19 Preparedness Plan is administered by the city administrator, who maintains the overall authority and responsibility for the plan. However, management and workers are equally responsible for supporting, implementing, complying with, and providing recommendations to further improve all aspects of this COVID-19 Preparedness Plan. Elk River’s managers and supervisors have our full support in enforcing the provisions of this plan. Our workers are our most important assets. The city is serious about safety and health and protecting its workers. Worker involvement is essential in developing and implementing a successful COVID-19 Preparedness Plan. We have involved our workers in this process by initially holding daily meetings with department directors and key managers to gather information, discuss areas of concern and identify policy and facility improvements to resolve concerns. The directors and key managers met with their respective employees to share this information and receive further feedback. Following the initial implementation, directors and key managers met twice weekly to share operational information, discuss further employee feedback and the operational status of their work areas. Elk River’s COVID-19 Preparedness Plan follows the industry guidance developed by the state of Minnesota, which is based upon Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) guidelines for COVID-19, Minnesota Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MNOSHA) statutes, rules and standards, and Minnesota’s relevant and current executive orders. It addresses:  ensuring sick workers stay home and prompt identification and isolation of sick persons;  social distancing – workers must be at least six-feet apart;  worker hygiene and source controls;  workplace building and ventilation protocol;  workplace cleaning and disinfection protocol;  drop-off, pick-up and delivery practices and protocol; and  communications and training practices and protocol. Elk River has reviewed and incorporated the industry guidance applicable to our business provided by the state of Minnesota for the development of this plan, including the following industry guidance for critical and governmental operations. Other conditions and circumstances included in the industry guidance and addressed in the plan that are specific to our business include: