Advocacy

As an essential business, printing operations have an obligation to ensure they are implementing programs designed to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Read here for more.

In order to address the spread of the virus in the workplace, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued guidelines outlining what employers may and may not do to protect both employees and the community’s public health. Read here for more.

OSHA has reminded employers that, according to OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program, it is illegal to retaliate against workers because they report unsafe and unhealthful working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. Read here for more information.

In a clarification to its initial position, OSHA is now going to exercise its enforcement discretion regarding the need for many establishments, including printing operations, to record cases of COVID-19 infections in its workforce. Read here for more details.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidelines aimed at getting workers who have been exposed to the coronavirus in critical fields back to work faster. Read here for more information.

In order to assist printing operations in developing and implementing a program, SGIA has prepared a Sanitation Guide that is based on guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read here for details.

Throughout the country, each state is at a different stage in their COVID-19 response. Find what category your state is currently in here. SGIA is working to keep this page as updated as possible.

Due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus around the world, countries have been taking actions to help prevent the spread. Read here for a summary of the actions taken so far to combat the spread of the virus in Canada.

The recommendations on face masks or face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic have been very fluid and now some states and local municipalities are requiring employees in essential businesses that are interacting with the public to wear them at work. Read here for more information.

On April 1, 2020, California implemented changes to its consumer product warning requirements under its Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, commonly referred to as Proposition 65. Read here for more information.