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Version 5 25 2021 COVID-19 Preparedness Plan for the City of Lauderdale The City of Lauderdale is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for all our workers, residents, partners, and guests. To ensure we have as safe and healthy workplace, the City of Lauderdale has 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 COVID49 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 Lauderdale City Council, 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. The City of Lauderdale's manager and staff have our full support in enforcing the provisions of this plan. Our workers are our most important assets. The City of Lauderdale 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 staff in this process by coordinating with them for the purchase of health and safety equipment and having them review and revise the Preparedness Plan. The City of Lauderdale's COVID49 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's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Minnesota OSHA) statutes, rules, and standards, and Minnesota's relevant and current executive orders, and addresses: • Ensuring sick workers stay home and prompt identification and isolation of sick persons; • Social distancing • Worker hygiene and source controls; • Workplace building and ventilation protocol; • Workplace cleaning and disinfection protocol; • Drop-off, pick-up and delivery practices and protocol; • Facility use by the public; and • Communications and training practices and protocol. Ensure sick workers stay home and prompt identification and isolation of sick persons Workers have been informed of and encouraged to self -monitor for signs and symptoms of COVID-19. The following policies and procedures are being implemented to assess workers' health status prior to entering the workplace and for workers to report when they are sick or experiencing symptoms.