Friday, May 1st, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed Executive Order 2020-70 as part of her MI Safe Start plan. The executive order will allow the May 7 resumption of some types of work that present a very low risk of infection, including construction, real-estate activities, and work that is traditionally and primarily performed outdoors.

The order also requires businesses to adopt measures to protect their workers against the spread of COVID-19.

• Under the order, construction sites must adopt a set of best practices to protect their workers from infection. Those practices include:
  
• Designating a site supervisor to enforce COVID-19 control strategies.
  
• Conducting daily health screenings for workers.
  
• Creating dedicated entry points, if possible, or issuing stickers or other indicators to assure that all workers are screened every day.
  
• Identifying choke points and high-risk areas (like hallways, hoists and elevators, break areas, water stations, and buses) and controlling them to enable social distancing.
  
• Ensuring sufficient hand-washing or hand-sanitizing stations at the worksite.