Marin Professional Firefighters, IAFF Local 1775
DOL Wage & Hour Division information for employers and employees facing COVID-19, and effects on wages and hours worked under FLSA and FMLA.
Workplace safety and health regulations in California require employers to protect workers exposed to airborne infectious diseases such as the coronavirus. Cal/OSHA has posted guidance to help employers comply with these safety requirements and to provide workers information on how to protect themselves.
Cal/OSHA’s Aerosol Transmissible Diseases (ATD) standard (section 5199) requires protection for employees providing health care services and operations, including:
To protect workers and prevent exposure to the virus, employers must develop and maintain the required programs and plans for their facility or operation. Cal/OSHA recommends the interim guidance, educational materials and model programs and plans below be reviewed with an employer’s existing procedures to ensure that workers are protected.
COVID-19 Self-Screening Guidelines
Risk Assessment for Potential Exposure
Post-Exposure/Quarantine Symptom Monitoring Tracker
Current information and updates from the County of Marin Public Health Officer including Shelter in Place status and interim Guidelines from Marin Health and Human Services.
As a professional firefighter, your health and safety are our priority. Worker's Compensation protects your salary and benefits if your are injured or become ill due to exposures as part of your job. To protect your rights, you must follow processes and take steps to prepare before the injury or exposure occurs.
All Local 1775 members MUST pre-designate a physician with their employer in order to protect their rights to choose a doctor or specialist in the event of an on the job injury or job related illness. If you fail to fill this form out, and have it signed by your doctor (and file it with your employer) before you are injured, you forfeit your right to choose the doctor who will treat you. In the recent past, Local 1775 members have suffered needlessly and were unable to receive the best treatment available because they did not complete this simple procedure!