The following information provides some helpful links and overview details at the state level on requirements for businesses reopening, including posting requirements due to COVID-19. Please note that these requirements may continue to change as the situation with COVID-19 changes and there may be local laws or ordinances that are applicable that are not covered here. Check back for updates.

CDC Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to COVID-19

Alabama

The Alabama Amended Safer at Home Order issued on Sept. 30, 2020, supersedes and preempts the Aug. 27 order and any other less stringent COVID-19-related measures. This order is in effect until Nov. 8, 2020, unless extended, rescinded or modified prior to that time. Under this order, all employers must take the following steps when practicable:

• Encourage use of masks and facial coverings
• Maintain six feet of separation between employees
• Regularly disinfect frequently used items and surfaces
• Encouraging handwashing
• Preventing employees who are sick from coming into contact with other workers
• Facilitating remote work arrangements
• Minimizing employee travel

Retailers must comply with the following:

• Occupancy limited to 50 percent of the normal occupancy load as determined by fire marshal
• Employee of retail store may not knowingly allow customers to congregate within six feet of a person from another household
• Retail store shall take reasonable steps to comply with guidelines on sanitation from the CDC and Alabama Department of Public Health

The Alabama guidelines strongly encourages businesses post extensive signage on health policies in the workplace including the following: CDC Guidance to stop the spread of germs and CDC guidance on Symptoms of COVID-19.

Alaska

Alaska has provided detailed requirements for businesses reopening broken down by business types – i.e., restaurants, retail, personal services, non-public facing businesses, public facing businesses, fishing charters, social, religious and other gatherings, gyms, fitness and recreational facilities and lodges and camping, among others. These requirements can be found online.

Under these requirements, public facing businesses should have entryway signage that notifies the public of the businesses COVID-19 Mitigation Plan and clearly states that any person with COVID-19 symptoms may not enter the premises.

Arizona

Pursuant to Executive Order 2020-40 – Containing the Spread of COVID-19 – Business Guidance, the following precautions are required for businesses operating in Arizona:

• Post physical and/or electronic signage at building entrances of public health advisories prohibiting individuals who are symptomatic from entering the premises
• Post signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, properly wash hands, promote everyday protective measures, and properly wear a face covering

Updates for various business types and reopening can be found on the state’s website.

Arkansas

Arkansas COVID-19 Guidance for Employers can be found online.

Reopened businesses must post a sign at the entrance information all employees, customers, and congregants that they should avoid entering the facility if they have a cough or fever, maintain social distancing, sneeze and cough into one’s elbow, and not shake hands or engage in any unnecessary physical contact.

All businesses, including essential businesses, must have processes or procedures in place that ensure the following:

• Limit the number of people who can enter into the facility at any one time to ensure that people in the facility can easily maintain a minimum six-foot distance from one another
• Mark off six-foot increments if lines form establishing where individuals should stand to maintain social distancing
• Provide hand sanitizer, soap and water, or effective disinfectant at or near the entrance and in locations where there is high-frequency employee interaction with members of the public
• Where applicable, provide contact-less payment systems or provide for disinfecting all payment portals, pens, and styluses after each use
• Regularly disinfect any high-touch surfaces

Colorado

Colorado public health and executive orders can be found on the state’s website.

All businesses must post signage for employees and customers on good hygiene.

Retail businesses and Restaurants must post signage notifying patrons and employees of hygiene and sanitation expectations, including not entering if they are experiencing any symptoms.

Connecticut

Connecticut’s COVID-19 Guidance for Employers can be found online.

Phase 3 reopening began Oct. 8, 2020. Generally, employers must do the following:

• Complete the self-certification on the DECD website to receive a Reopen Connecticut badge. Once complete, businesses can choose to post the badge on-site and on social media to advertise adherence to Connecticut rules and build customer confidence
• Post clear signage that includes the state hotline (211) for employees and customers to report potential violations of these rules
• Place posters that encourage hand hygiene to help stop the spread at the entrance to your workplace and in other workplace areas where they are likely to be seen

Post signage reinforces new policies, like:

• Social distancing protocols
• Cleaning and disinfection protocols
• Personal protection protocols (face masks) for employees and customers
• Employees shall stay home if sick/experiencing symptoms
• Customers shall not enter if they are experiencing symptoms
• Clean and disinfect shared bathrooms frequently and implement use of cleaning log for tracking. Clean multiple times a day and hourly during busy times. Recommend posting signage encouraging reduced capacity in bathrooms, and reminding individuals to wash their hands and wear a mask

Delaware

Delaware reopening guidance is located on the state’s website.

Delaware is now in Phase 2 of reopening and the requirements for specific types of businesses is outlined here.

The general postings guidance requires employers to post signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, hand hygiene, and how to properly wear a face covering.

Industry Food and Drink Businesses: Facilities must post a sign in a prominent location or otherwise notify patrons that they may leave their contact information to enable the DPH to contact the patron if another patron or an employee tests positive for COVID-19. They may not use the information for any other purpose. Facilities must retain the information for 28 days. They need not deny service to patrons who do not provide contact information for this purpose.

Retail Businesses should post signage at entrances and high traffic areas alerting staff and customers of occupancy limits, physical distancing requirements, and face covering order.

Florida

The Guidelines for Florida’s Recovery Plan is located on the state’s website. Florida is in Phase 3 of its reopening and we are not aware of any orders related to postings requirements for businesses re-opening.

Illinois

Illinois is in Phase 4 reopening and must prominently display guidance from the Illinois Department of Public Health and Office of Illinois Attorney General regarding workplace safety during the COVID-19 emergency. Office buildings must develop and prominently post plans and signage to ensure social distancing in shared spaces such as waiting rooms, service counters, and cafeterias. Details can be found here for requirements by business type.

Retail employers must post the following:

• Information about the symptoms of COVID-19 so employees may self-assess whether they have symptoms which would require them to go home
• Signage at store entrances with face covering requirements, social distancing guidelines, and cleaning protocols. Signage should be in multiple languages as necessary

Restaurant and bar employers must post the following:

• Signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19 and promote protective measures
• Information about the symptoms of COVID-19 so employees may self-assess whether they have symptoms which would require them to go home
• Signs at entry and throughout the workspace with face covering requirements, social distancing guidelines, cleaning protocols, and any reduced capacity limit. Signs should be in multiple languages as necessary
• It is also recommended but not required that signs be posted at exits of restrooms to promote use of paper towels to open the door for exit from the restroom and signs to promote social distancing in the shared restrooms

All offices must display the following:

• Information about the symptoms of COVID-19 so employees may self-assess whether they have symptoms that would require them to go home
• If it is a multi-tenant building, the landlord must display signage at the building entry with mask requirements, social distancing, cleaning protocols, and any reduced capacity limits in multiple languages as necessary
• The tenant should display signs at their specific entrances with masks and social distancing requirements, cleaning protocols and any changes to capacity in multiple languages as necessary

Michigan

Executive Order 2020-42 – Requires businesses and operations remaining open to adopt social distancing practices and other mitigation measures to protect workers and patrons. This order is in effect through April 30, 2020. A copy of the order can be found online.

Oakland County – Public Health Order (2020-07). Requiring screening and social distancing measures at open businesses and operations subject to the Governors Executive Order 2020-21. The order identifies precautions that businesses and operations remaining open must take, which include developing a daily screening criteria for staff, requiring use of facial coverings under CDC guidance in essential businesses where social distancing measures are not possible, and businesses must publish the order at the entrance of the facility and to members of the public at large by all reasonable means. The order is in effect and remains in effect until the expiration of Michigan Emergency Order 2020-42. Find the order online.

Wayne County – Emergency Public Health Order #20-02 requires businesses and other entities remaining open to develop screening procedures for staff at worksites, develop and implement a social distancing plan for employees and customers and limit capacity inside facilities. This should include but not be limited to the use of signs, contact barriers, entrance limits and special hours. Businesses are also required to post a copy of the Order #20-02 at all entrances to open facilities so that it is visible to employees, customers and other persons entering the premises. Find a digital copy of the order.