A Temperature Check On Reopening San Diego

With little notice or fanfare, San Diego County updated its emergency health order effective May 10, 2020 to provide additional protections for employees of essential and reopened businesses. The San Diego Health Order (Order) is the first in California to require essential businesses and those opened under California's Resilience Roadmap ("reopened businesses") to conduct daily temperature screenings of employees, as well as to develop and post specific plans for health screenings and to maintain social distancing and sanitation measures.

Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol: The Order requires essential businesses that allow the public to enter a facility to prepare and post a "Social Distancing and Sanitation Protocol" (Protocol) on a form available from the county's website. As an alternative, businesses may use a form required by another governmental entity that requires similar information. Essential businesses must post the Protocol near the entrance