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    Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today signed an order providing direction for maintaining and cleaning buildings for businesses authorized to maintain in-person operations under her and the governor’s life-sustaining business orders .

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    04.05.20 SOH Building Safety Measures

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    Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine today signed an order providing direction for maintaining and cleaning buildings for businesses authorized to maintain in-person operations under her and the governor’s life-sustaining business orders .

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    Order of the Secretary of the

    Pennsylvania Department of Health


    Directing Building Safety Measures
    Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a contagious disease that is rapidly spreading
    from person to person in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. COVID-19 can be
    transmitted from people who are infected with the virus even if their symptoms are mild,
    such as a cough. Additionally, exposure is possible by touching a surface or object that
    has the virus on it and then touching one’s mouth, nose, or eyes.

    COVID-19 is a threat to the public’s health, for which the Secretary of Health may
    order general control measures, including, but not limited to, closure, isolation, and
    quarantine. This authority is granted to the Secretary of Health pursuant to Pennsylvania
    law. See Section 5 of the Disease Prevention and Control Law, 35 P.S. §§ 521.1, 521.5;
    sections 2102(a) and 2106 of the Administrative Code of 1929, 71 P.S. §§ 532(a), 536; and
    the Department of Health’s (Department’s) regulations at 28 Pa. Code §§ 27.60-27.68
    (relating to disease control measures; isolation; quarantine; movement of persons subject
    to isolation or quarantine; and release from isolation and quarantine). Particularly, the
    Secretary has the authority to take any disease control measure appropriate to protect the
    public from the spread of infectious disease. See 35 P.S. §§ 521.5; 71 P.S. § 532(a),
    1402(a); 28 Pa. Code § 28.60.

    Cleaning, disinfecting, and other maintenance and security services performed by


    building service employees are critical to protecting the public health by reducing COVID-
    19 infections in the Commonwealth. Based upon the manner of COVID-19's spread in the
    Commonwealth and in the world, and its danger to Pennsylvanians, I have determined that
    the appropriate disease control measure is the direction of building safety measures as
    outlined in this order to prevent and control the spread of disease.

    Accordingly, to protect the public from the spread of COVID-19, I hereby order:

    Where a business is authorized to maintain in-person operations pursuant to the


    Orders issued by the Governor and Secretary of Health on March 19, 2020, as
    subsequently amended, including businesses operating pursuant to exemptions
    from those Orders, owners of buildings of at least 50,000 square feet used for
    commercial, industrial or other enterprises, including but not limited to facilities
    for warehousing, manufacturing, commercial offices, airports, grocery stores,
    universities, colleges, government, hotels, and residential buildings with at least 50
    units, shall implement the following cleaning protocols in those areas where
    operations are conducted:
    (1) in addition to maintaining pre-existing cleaning protocols established in the
    facility, as specified in paragraph (2) below, clean and disinfect high-touch
    areas routinely in accordance with CDC guidelines, in spaces that are accessible
    to customers, tenants, or other individuals;

    (2) maintain pre-existing cleaning protocols established in the facility for all
    other areas of the building;

    (3) ensure that the facility has a sufficient number of employees to perform
    the above protocols effectively and in a manner that ensures the safety of
    occupants and employees;

    (4) ensure that the facility has a sufficient number of security employees to
    control access, maintain order, and enforce social distancing of at least 6 feet,
    provided the security employees are otherwise responsible for such
    enforcement.

    This Order shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on April 6, 2020.

    Rachel Levine, MD
    Secretary of Health

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