U.S.

Department of Homeland Security

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
Office of the Director
Washington, DC 20528

August 10, 2021

ADVISORY MEMORANDUM ON ENSURING ESSENTIAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

WORKERS' ABILITY TO WORK DURING THE COVID-19 RESPONSE

FROM: Jen Easterly

Director

As the Nation continues to respond to COVID-19, it remains vital that essential critical
infrastructure workers can perform their jobs safely, securely, and without interruption from
COVID-19 and the new variants of the virus. Doing so is not only fundamentally good for our
individual essential workers and communities, it is also critical to the resilience of our National
Critical Functions. Government officials and the owners and operators of critical infrastructures
can use this guidance to reduce risk in a number of ways including by encouraging essential
workers to be vaccinated, providing the appropriate protective gear, and creating and promoting
policies and procedures that prevent the spread of illness among the essential workforce.

With newer and more contagious variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 now emerging, we
are entering a new phase of the pandemic response. For this reason, we are updating the
Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce Guidance. Although the contents of the list are
largely unchanged from the August 2020 release, we want to newly encourage the use of it to
further reduce the frequency and severity of the virus’ impact on essential workers and the
infrastructures they operate. Protecting our workforce protects our critical infrastructures, our
local communities, and speeds our Nation’s progress toward recovery.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in collaboration with other
federal agencies, State, local, tribal, and territorial governments and the private sector, originally
issued the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce Guidance in support of COVID-19
response efforts. This 4.1 Version is the latest iteration of the guidance, which has evolved over
time based on lessons learned from the pandemic and as additional essential workers returned to
work. The earlier versions of the list were meant to help officials and organizations in their
efforts to identify essential work functions, including developing policies to allow essential
workers access to their workplaces during times of community restrictions. As circumstances
have changed over the course of the pandemic, so has the application of this guidance. Given the
emergence of a more transmissible variant of the virus, the wide availability of vaccines, and the
resurgence of increased nationwide infection and subsequent community restrictions,
infrastructure owners and operators may use this guidance to fulfill their responsibility to
encourage that essential workers are vaccinated, well protected in the workplace, and well-
informed about COVID and vaccines.

The list identifies workers who conduct a range of operations and services that may be essential
to continued critical infrastructure operations, including staffing operations centers, maintaining
and repairing critical infrastructure, operating public safety call centers, working construction,
and performing operational functions, among others. It includes workers who support crucial
supply chains and enable cyber and physical security functions for critical infrastructure. The
industries that essential workers support represent, but are not limited to, medical and healthcare,
telecommunications, information technology systems, defense, food and agriculture,
transportation and logistics, energy, water and wastewater, and law enforcement. State, local,
tribal, and territorial governments are responsible for designing, implementing and executing
response activities in their communities, while the Federal Government remains in a supporting
role. Officials should use their own judgment in making decisions regarding resource allocation
and other public health measures. While adhering to relevant public health guidance, critical
infrastructure owners and operators are expected to use their own judgment on issues of the
prioritization of business processes and workforce allocation to best ensure worker safety and the
continuity of the essential goods and services. Decisions should appropriately balance public
safety, the health and safety of the workforce, and the continued delivery of essential critical
infrastructure functions.

CISA will continue to work with our partners in the critical infrastructure community to update
this advisory list, if necessary, as the Nation’s response to COVID-19 evolves.

Should you have questions regarding COVID-19 and essential workers in your state, please
reach out to your state public health department.

Should you have questions about this list, please contact CISA at [email protected].

Attachment: “Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring

Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response Version 4.1”
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Guidance on the Essential Critical
Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring
Community and National Resilience
in COVID-19 Response

Version 4.1 (August 5, 2021)

ENSURING ESSENTIAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE WORKERS HAVE THE ABILITY

TO WORK SAFELY
Functioning critical infrastructure is imperative during the response to the COVID-19 emergency for both public health
and security as well as community well-being. While stopping the spread of the virus and protecting the most
vulnerable among us rightfully remain national priorities, a degradation of infrastructure operations and resilience only
makes achieving those missions more difficult. Recognizing this, CISA published guidance identifying Essential Critical
Infrastructure Workers at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This guidance was adopted broadly across the
country and was subsequently updated as the response evolved. This update, Version 4.1, continues to advance the
guidance considering developments in pandemic response to support a risk-based approach towards worker safety to
ensure the continuity of critical functions.

CISA appreciates the partnership with the critical infrastructure community in developing the guidance. The Nation’s
infrastructure resilience was undoubtedly enhanced by a common approach to, and prioritization of, essential critical
infrastructure workers being able to work during periods of community restrictions. As with previous guidance, this list
is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be considered, a federal directive or standard. Individual jurisdictions and
critical infrastructure owners and operators should add or subtract essential workforce categories based on their own
requirements and discretion.

Central to the value of the guidance in the early months of the pandemic was the discrete problem it was intended to
support solutions for – enabling essential workers to work during community restrictions. While CISA continues to
engage with stakeholders to identify workforce limitations that may impact infrastructure resilience, it is our
assessment that, for the most part, essential workers are able to work – what is now most important is that essential
workers are able to work in a safe environment, even as variants of COVID-19 threated to cause the re-imposition of
some community restrictions and re-imposition of non-medical interventions.

Recognizing this, the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers guidance can add the most value going forward by
illuminating the universe of workers that require particularly thoughtful and deliberate risk management strategies so
that they can continue to work safely and critical infrastructures continue to operate in an uninterrupted fashion..

CISA recognizes that states and localities across the country have undergone a phased re-opening of businesses,
public lands, and other places of community and civic importance. As we enter the next stage in the pandemic
response and schools and additional businesses reopen, CISA encourages jurisdictions and critical infrastructure
owners to use the list to assist in prioritizing the ability of essential workers to work safely to ensure ongoing
infrastructure operations and resilience.

Doing so will require looking at the universe of workers on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce list and
identifying tailored risk mitigation strategies for specific workplace settings. These could include:

Creating a Risk Categorization Methodology for Worker Safety. We recommend that organizations continue to
categorize their employees against a risk factor matrix so that mitigation strategies can be implemented to enhance
safety. The risk categorization factors that should be considered include:

Setting: Are workers indoors or outdoors?

Vaccination Status: Are employees vaccinated?
Proximity: How physically close are workers (and customers) to each other?

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Type of contact: Do workers touch shared surfaces, common items, and other workers or customers?
Duration: How long does an average interaction last?
Number of different contacts: How many interactions occur daily?
Employee risk factors: Which workers face heightened risk due to their age or underlying medical
conditions?
Capability to assess possible infection: Are there screening protocols that protect workers (and
customers) from interactions with contagious people?
Cleaning: How frequently can the facility be sanitized and cleaned?

Based on the responses to these risks, organizations can categorize the conditions that their workers face and
continue to implement measures to increase worker well-being. In other words, increased protective measures should
be based on those with high risk factors. Risk categorization guidance assistance can be found at OSHA.

In addition to the aforementioned characteristics of the worker and workplace, there may be local factors that
influence COVID-19 risk mitigation plans including, vaccination and infection rates and trends, the availability and
timeliness of testing, the criticality of the business and worker to the local or state economy, and the need to prepare
and respond to other localized events such as hurricanes, wildfires, or tornadoes.

The following links can provide additional guidance on health, workplace, and worker safety issues related to the
pandemic:

CDC Safety Practices for Critical Infrastructure Workers: Implementing Safety Practices for Critical
Infrastructure Workers Who May Have Had Exposure to a Person with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19

OSHA/HHS Workplace Guidance: Guidance for Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19

CISA Telework Guidance: Telework Guidance and Resources

CISA General Guidance: CISA Information & Updates on COVID-19

CISA will continually solicit and accept feedback on the list and will evolve the list in response to stakeholder feedback.
We will also use our various stakeholder engagement mechanisms to work with partners on how they are using this list
and share those lessons learned and best practices broadly. Feedback can be sent to [email protected].

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CONSIDERATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS

This list was developed in consultation with federal agency partners, industry experts, and State and local officials, and
is based on several key principles:
1. Response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic are locally executed, state managed, and federally supported.
2. Critical infrastructure workers and employers should follow Businesses and Workplace guidance from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as state and local government officials, regarding
strategies to limit disease spread.
3. Employers must comply with applicable Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements
and guidance for protecting critical infrastructure workers who remain on or return to the job during the
COVID-19 pandemic. As the nation relies on these workers to protect public health, safety, and community
well-being, they must be protected from exposure to and infection from the virus so that they can continue to
carry out their responsibilities. OSHA has guidance and enforcement information for workplaces at
www.osha.gov/coronavirus.
4. Critical infrastructure employers should create a clear COVID-19 vaccination policy for its workforce that
encourages vaccination and reduces barriers to vaccination. In addition, critical infrastructure employers
should maximize protection from the Delta variant—especially for workers at increased risk for severe disease
due to weakened immune system, age, or underlying medical conditions—such as through mandating indoor
mask use in areas of substantial or high transmission.
5. Businesses and government agencies may continue to implement organization-specific measures as
appropriate and consistent with applicable Federal, state, local, or other requirements, which protect the
workforce while meeting mission needs.
6. Consider the impact of workplace sick leave policies that may contribute to an employee decision to delay
reporting medical symptoms. Sick employees should not return to the workplace until they meet the criteria to
stop home isolation. CDC has the following guidance on when it is safe to stop home isolation at
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/end-home-isolation.html.
7. Critical infrastructure employers have an obligation to limit to the extent possible the reintegration of in- person
workers who have experienced an exposure to COVID-19 but remain asymptomatic in ways that best protect
the health of the worker, their co-workers, and the general public. An analysis of core job tasks and workforce
availability at worksites can allow the employer to match core activities to other equally skilled and available in-
person workers who have not experienced an exposure. CDC guidance on safety practices for critical
infrastructure workers is maintained at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/critical-
workers/implementing-safety-practices.html.
8. All organizations should implement their business continuity and pandemic plans or put plans in place if they do
not exist. Delaying implementation is not advised and puts at risk the viability of the business and the health
and safety of workers. The CDC and OSHA have guidance for workplaces and businesses to assist them plan,
prepare, and respond to the pandemic at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-
ncov/community/organizations/businesses-employers.html and https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/covid-19.
9. Ensure that certain workers have consistent access to specific sites, facilities, and assets to ensure continuity
of functions. Most of our economy relies on technology and therefore information technology (IT) and

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operational technology (OT) workers for critical infrastructure operations are essential. This includes workers
in many roles, including workers focusing on management systems, control systems, and Supervisory
Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and data centers; cybersecurity engineering; and
cybersecurity risk management
10. Government workers, such as emergency managers, and the business community need to establish and
maintain the practice of openly communicating with one another on such issues as workforce needs and
safety as well as the continuity of critical functions.
11. Ensure that essential critical infrastructure workers have continued and unimpeded access to sites,
facilities, and equipment within quarantine zones, containment areas, areas under curfew restrictions, or
other areas where access or movement is limited, in order to perform functions for community relief and
stability; for public safety, security and health; for maintaining essential supply chains for maintaining
critical information technology services, and preserving local, regional, and national economic well-being.
12. Whenever possible, local governments should consider adopting specific provisions of state orders or
guidance on sustained access and mobility of essential workers to reduce potential complications of
workers crossing jurisdictional boundaries to perform critical functions, including during times of
quarantine. When this is not possible, local jurisdictions should consider aligning access and movement
control policies with neighboring jurisdictions to reduce the burden of cross-jurisdictional movement of
essential critical infrastructure workers.

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IDENTIFYING ESSENTIAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE WORKERS

The following list of identified essential critical infrastructure workers is intended to be overly inclusive reflecting the
diversity of industries across the United States.

HEALTHCARE / PUBLIC HEALTH

• Workers, including laboratory personnel, that perform critical clinical, biomedical and other research,
development, and testing needed for COVID-19 or other diseases.
• Healthcare providers including, but not limited to, physicians (MD/DO/DPM); dentists; psychologists; mid-
level practitioners; nurses; emergency medical services personnel, assistants and aids; infection control
and quality assurance personnel; phlebotomists; pharmacists; physical, respiratory, speech and
occupational therapists and assistants; social workers; optometrists; speech pathologists; chiropractors;
diagnostic and therapeutic technicians; and radiology technologists.
• Workers required for effective clinical, command, infrastructure, support service, administrative, security,
and intelligence operations across the direct patient care and full healthcare and public health spectrum.
Personnel examples may include, but are not limited, to accounting, administrative, admitting and
discharge, engineering, accrediting, certification, licensing, credentialing, epidemiological, source plasma
and blood donation, food service, environmental services, housekeeping, medical records, information
technology and operational technology, nutritionists, sanitarians, etc.

o Emergency medical services workers including clinical interns.

o Prehospital workers included but not limited to urgent care workers.
o Inpatient & hospital workers (e.g. hospitals, critical access hospitals, long-term acute care
hospitals, long-term care facilities including skilled nursing facilities, inpatient hospice, ambulatory
surgical centers, etc.).
o Outpatient care workers (e.g. end-stage-renal disease practitioners and staff, Federally Qualified
Health Centers, Rural Health Clinics, community mental health clinics, organ
transplant/procurement centers, and other ambulatory care settings/providers, comprehensive
outpatient rehabilitation facilities, etc.).
o Home care workers (e.g. home health care, at-home hospice, home dialysis, home infusion, etc.).
o Workers at Long-term care facilities, residential and community-based providers (e.g. Programs of
All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual
Disabilities, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities, Religious Nonmedical Health Care
Institutions, etc.).
o Workplace safety workers (i.e., workers who anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control workplace
conditions that may cause workers' illness or injury).

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• Workers needed to support transportation to and from healthcare facility and provider appointments.
• Workers needed to provide laundry services, food services, reprocessing of medical equipment,
and waste management.
• Workers that manage health plans, billing, and health information and who cannot work remotely.
• Workers performing cybersecurity functions at healthcare and public health facilities and who cannot work
remotely.
• Workers performing security, incident management, and emergency operations functions at or on behalf of
healthcare entities including healthcare coalitions, who cannot practically work remotely.
• Vendors and suppliers (e.g. imaging, pharmacy, oxygen services, durable medical equipment, etc.).
• Workers at manufacturers (including biotechnology companies and those companies that have shifted
production to medical supplies), materials and parts suppliers, technicians, logistics and warehouse
operators, printers, packagers, distributors of medical products and equipment (including third party
logistics providers, and those who test and repair), personal protective equipment (PPE), isolation barriers,
medical gases, pharmaceuticals (including materials used in radioactive drugs), dietary supplements,
commercial health products, blood and blood products, vaccines, testing materials, laboratory supplies,
cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting or sterilization supplies (including dispensers), sanitary goods, personal
care products, pest control products, and tissue and paper towel products.
• Donors of blood, bone marrow, blood stem cell, or plasma, and the workers of the organizations that
operate and manage related activities.
• Pharmacy staff, including workers necessary to maintain uninterrupted prescription, and other
workers for pharmacy operations.
• Workers and materials (e.g., laboratory supplies) needed to conduct bloodspot and point of care (i.e.,
hearing and critical congenital heart disease) newborn screening as well as workers and materials need for
confirmatory diagnostic testing and initiation of treatment.
• Home health workers (e.g., nursing, respiratory therapists, health aides) who need to go into the homes
of individuals with chronic, complex conditions and/or disabilities to deliver nursing and/or daily living
care.
• Workers in retail facilities specializing in medical good and supplies.
• Public health and environmental health workers, such as:
o Workers specializing in environmental health that focus on implementing environmental controls,
sanitary and infection control interventions, healthcare facility safety and emergency preparedness
planning, engineered work practices, and developing guidance and protocols for appropriate PPE
to prevent COVID-19 disease transmission.
o Public health/community health workers (including call center workers) who conduct community-
based public health functions, conducting epidemiologic surveillance and compiling, analyzing,
and communicating public health information, who cannot work remotely.
• Human services providers, especially for at risk populations such as:
o Home delivered meal providers for older adults, people with disabilities, and others with chronic
health conditions.
o Home-maker services for frail, homebound, older adults.
o Personal assistance services providers to support activities of daily living for older adults, people
with disabilities, and others with chronic health conditions who live independently in the
community with supports and services.
o Home health providers who deliver health care services for older adults, people with disabilities,
and others with chronic health conditions who live independently in the community with supports
and services.
o Workers who provide human services, including but not limited to social workers, nutritionists,
case managers or case workers, crisis counselors, foster care case managers, adult protective
services personnel, child protective personnel, domestic violence counselors, human trafficking
prevention and recovery personnel, behavior specialists, substance abuse-related counselors, and
peer support counselors.

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• Government entities, and contractors that work in support of local, state, federal, tribal, and territorial
public health and medical mission sets, including but not limited to supporting access to healthcare
and associated payment functions, conducting public health functions, providing medical care,
supporting emergency management, or other services necessary for supporting the COVID-19
response.
• Workers for providers and services supporting effective telehealth.
• Mortuary service providers, such as:
o Workers performing mortuary funeral, cremation, burial, cemetery, and related services,
including funeral homes, crematoriums, cemetery workers, and coffin makers.
o Workers who coordinate with other organizations to ensure the proper recovery, handling,
identification, transportation, tracking, storage, and disposal of human remains and personal
effects; certify cause of death; and facilitate access to mental and behavioral health services
to the family members, responders, and survivors of an incident.

LAW ENFORCEMENT, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND OTHER FIRST RESPONDERS

• Public, private, and voluntary personnel (front-line and management, civilian and sworn) in emergency
management, law enforcement, fire and rescue services, emergency medical services (EMS), and security,
public and private hazardous material responders, air medical service providers (pilots and supporting
technicians), corrections, and search and rescue personnel.
• Personnel involved in provisioning of access to emergency services, including the provisioning of real-time
text, text-to-911, and dialing 911 via relay.
• Personnel that are involved in the emergency alert system (EAS) (broadcasters, satellite radio
and television, cable, and wireline video) and wireless emergency alerts (WEA).
• Workers at Independent System Operators and Regional Transmission Organizations, and
Network Operations staff, engineers and technicians to manage the network or operate facilities.
• Workers at emergency communication center, public safety answering points, public safety
communications centers, emergency operation centers, and 911 call centers.
• Fusion Center workers.
• Workers, including contracted vendors, who maintain, manufacture, or supply equipment and services
supporting law enforcement, fire, EMS, and response operations (to include electronic security and life
safety security personnel).
• Workers and contracted vendors who maintain and provide services and supplies to public safety facilities,
including emergency communication center, public safety answering points, public safety communications
centers, emergency operation centers, fire and emergency medical services stations, police and law
enforcement stations and facilities.
• Workers supporting the manufacturing, distribution, and maintenance of necessary safety equipment and
uniforms for law enforcement and all public safety personnel.
• Workers supporting the operation of firearm, or ammunition product manufacturers, retailers, importers,
distributors, and shooting ranges.
• Public agency workers responding to abuse and neglect of children, spouses, elders, and
dependent adults.
• Workers who support weather disaster and natural hazard mitigation and prevention activities.
• Security staff to maintain building access control and physical security measures.
• Workers who support child care and protective service programs such as child protective service.

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EDUCATION
• Workers who support the education of pre-school, K-12, college, university, career and technical
education, and adult education students, including professors, teachers, teacher aides, special
education and special needs teachers, ESOL teachers, para-educators, apprenticeship supervisors,
and specialists.
• Workers who provide services necessary to support educators and students, including but not
limited to, administrators, administrative staff, IT specialists, media specialists, librarians, guidance
counselors, school psychologists and other mental health professions, school nurses and other
health professionals, and school safety personnel.
• Workers who support the transportation and operational needs of schools, including bus drivers,
crossing guards, cafeteria workers, cleaning and maintenance workers, bus depot and maintenance
workers, and those that deliver food and supplies to school facilities.
• Workers who support the administration of school systems including, school superintendents and
their management and operational staff.
• Educators and operational staff facilitating and supporting distance learning.

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

• Workers enabling the sale of human food, animal food (includes pet food, animal feed, and raw materials
and ingredients), pet supply, and beverage products at groceries, pharmacies, convenience stores, and
other retail (including unattended and vending), including staff in retail customer support and information
technology support necessary for on-line orders, pickup, and delivery.
• Restaurant and quick serve food operations, including dark kitchen and food prep centers,
carry-out, and delivery food workers.
• Food manufacturer workers and their supplier workers including those employed at food ingredient
production and processing facilities; aquaculture and seafood harvesting facilities; slaughter and
processing facilities for livestock, poultry, and seafood; animal food manufacturing and processing facilities;
human food facilities producing by-products for animal food; industrial facilities producing co-products for
animal food; beverage production facilities; and the production of food packaging.
o Farmers, farm and ranch workers, and agribusiness support services, including workers involved
in auction and sales; in food operations, including animal food, grain and oilseed storage, handling,
processing, and distribution; in ingredient production, packaging, and distribution; in
manufacturing, packaging, and distribution of veterinary drugs and biologics
(e.g., vaccines); and in distribution and transport.
• Farmers, farm and ranch workers, and support service and supplier workers producing food supplies and
other agricultural inputs for domestic consumption and export, to include those engaged in raising,
cultivating, phytosanitation, harvesting, packing, storing, or distributing to storage or to market or to a
transportation mode to market any agricultural or horticultural commodity for human or animal
consumption.
• Workers at fuel ethanol facilities, biodiesel and renewable diesel facilities, and storage facilities.
• Workers and firms supporting the distribution of all human and animal food and beverage and ingredients
used in these products, including warehouse workers, vendor-managed inventory controllers, and
blockchain managers.
• Workers supporting the sanitation and pest control of all human and animal food manufacturing
processes and operations from wholesale to retail.
• Workers supporting greenhouses as well as the growth and distribution of plants and associated
products for home gardens.
• Workers in cafeterias used to feed workers, particularly worker populations sheltered against COVID-19

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and those designated as essential critical infrastructure workers.

• Workers in animal diagnostic and food testing laboratories.
• Government, private, and non-governmental organizations’ workers essential for food assistance
programs (including school lunch programs) and government payments.
• Workers of companies engaged in the production, storage, transport, and distribution of chemicals,
drugs, biologics (e.g. vaccines), and other substances used by the human and agricultural food and
agriculture industry, including seeds, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, minerals, enrichments,
equipment, and other agricultural production aids.
• Animal agriculture workers to include those employed in veterinary health (including those involved in
supporting emergency veterinary or livestock services); raising, caring for and management of animals for
food, as well as pets; animal production operations; livestock markets; slaughter and packing plants,
manufacturers, renderers, and associated regulatory and government workforce.

• Transportation workers supporting animal agricultural industries, including movement of animal medical
and reproductive supplies and materials, animal biologics (e.g., vaccines), animal drugs, animal food
ingredients, animal food and bedding, live animals, and deceased animals for disposal.
• Workers who support sawmills and the manufacture and distribution of fiber and forestry products,
including, but not limited to timber, paper, and other wood and fiber products, as well as
manufacture and distribution of products using agricultural commodities.
• Workers engaged in the manufacture and maintenance of equipment and other infrastructure necessary
for agricultural production and distribution.

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ENERGY
• Workers supporting the energy sector, regardless of the energy source (including, but not limited to,
nuclear, fossil, hydroelectric, or renewable), segment of the system, or infrastructure the worker is
involved in, who are needed to construct, manufacture, repair, transport, permit, monitor, operate
engineer, and maintain the reliability, safety, security, environmental health, and physical and cyber
security of the energy system, including those who support construction, manufacturing, transportation,
permitting, and logistics.
• Workers and contractors supporting energy facilities that provide steam, hot water or chilled water from
central power plants to connected customers.
• Workers conducting energy/commodity trading/scheduling/marketing functions who can't perform their
duties remotely.
• Workers supporting the energy sector through renewable energy infrastructure (including, but not limited
to, wind, solar, biomass, hydrogen, ocean, geothermal, and hydroelectric) and microgrids, including those
supporting construction, manufacturing, transportation, permitting, operation and maintenance,
monitoring, and logistics.
• Workers and security staff involved in nuclear re-fueling operations.
• Workers providing services related to energy sector fuels including, but not limited to, petroleum (crude
oil), natural gas, propane, liquefied natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), natural gas liquids
(NGL), other liquid fuels, nuclear, and coal) and supporting the mining, processing, manufacturing,
construction, logistics, transportation, permitting, operation, maintenance, security, waste disposal,
storage, and monitoring of support for resources.
• Workers providing environmental remediation and monitoring, limited to immediate critical
needs technicians.
• Workers involved in the manufacturing and distribution of equipment, supplies, and parts necessary to
maintain production, maintenance, restoration, and service at energy sector facilities across all energy
sector segments.
Electricity Industry
• Workers who maintain, ensure, restore, or who are involved in the development, transportation, fuel
procurement, expansion, or operation of, the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric
power, including call centers, utility workers, engineers, retail electricity, construction, maintenance,
utility telecommunications, relaying, and fleet maintenance technicians who cannot perform their duties
remotely.
• Workers at coal mines, production facilities, and those involved in manufacturing,
transportation, permitting, operation, maintenance, and monitoring at coal sites.

• Workers who produce, process, ship, and handle coal used for power generation and manufacturing.
• Workers in the electricity industry including but not limited to those supporting safety, construction,
manufacturing, transportation, permitting, operation/maintenance, engineering, physical and cyber
security, monitoring, and logistics
• Workers needed for safe and secure operations at nuclear generation including, but not limited to, those
critical to the broader nuclear supply chain, the manufacture and delivery of parts needed to maintain
nuclear equipment, the operations of fuel manufacturers, and the production and processing of fuel
components used in the manufacturing of fuel.

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• Workers at fossil fuel (including but not limited to natural gas, refined, distillate, and/or coal), nuclear,
and renewable energy infrastructure (including, but not limited to wind, solar, biomass, hydrogen,
geothermal, and hydroelectric), and microgrids, including those supporting safety, construction,
manufacturing, transportation, permitting, operation, maintenance, monitoring, and logistics.
• Workers at generation, transmission, and electric black start facilities.
• Workers at Reliability Coordinator, Balancing Authority, local distribution control centers, and primary and
backup Control Centers, including, but not limited to, independent system operators, regional
transmission organizations, and local distribution control centers.
• Workers that are mutual assistance/aid personnel, which may include workers from outside of the state
or local jurisdiction.
• Vegetation management and traffic control for supporting those crews.
• Instrumentation, protection, and control technicians.
• Essential support personnel for electricity operations.
• Generator set support workers, such as diesel engineers used in power generation, including those
providing fuel.

Petroleum Industry
• Workers who support onshore and offshore petroleum drilling operations; platform and drilling
construction and maintenance; transportation (including helicopter operations), maritime transportation,
supply, and dredging operations; maritime navigation; well stimulation, intervention, monitoring,
automation and control, extraction, production; processing; waste disposal, and maintenance,
construction, and operations.
• Workers in the petroleum industry including but not limited to those supporting safety, construction,
manufacturing, transportation, permitting, operation/maintenance, engineering, physical and cyber
security, monitoring, and logistics.
• Workers for crude oil, petroleum, and petroleum product storage and transportation, including pipeline,
marine transport, terminals, rail transport, storage facilities, racks, and road transport for use as end- use
fuels such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and heating fuels or feedstocks for chemical manufacturing.
• Petroleum and petroleum product security operations center workers and workers who support
maintenance and emergency response services.
• Petroleum and petroleum product operations control rooms, centers, and refinery facilities.
• Retail fuel centers such as gas stations and truck stops, and the distribution systems that support them.
• Supporting new and existing construction projects, including, but not limited to, pipeline construction.
• Manufacturing and distribution of equipment, supplies, and parts necessary for production, maintenance,
restoration, and service of petroleum and petroleum product operations and use, including end-users.
• Transmission and distribution pipeline workers, including but not limited to pump stations and any other
required, operations maintenance, construction, and support for petroleum products.

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Natural Gas, Natural Gas Liquids (NGL), Propane, and Other Liquid Fuels
• Workers who support onshore and offshore drilling operations, platform and drilling construction and
maintenance; transportation (including helicopter operations); maritime transportation, supply, and
dredging operations; maritime navigation; natural gas and natural gas liquid production, processing,
extraction, storage and transportation; well intervention, monitoring, automation and control; waste
disposal, and maintenance, construction, and operations.
• Workers in the natural gas, NGL, propane, and other liquid fuels industries including but not limited to
those supporting safety, construction, manufacturing, transportation, permitting, operation/maintenance,
engineering, physical and cyber security, monitoring, and logistics.
• Transmission and distribution pipeline workers, including compressor stations and any other required
operations maintenance, construction, and support for natural gas, natural gas liquid, propane, and other
liquid fuels.
• Workers at Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) facilities.
• Workers at natural gas, propane, natural gas liquids, liquified natural gas, liquid fuel storage facilities,
underground facilities, and processing plants and other related facilities, including construction,
maintenance, and support operations personnel.
• Natural gas processing plants workers and those who deal with natural gas liquids.
• Workers who staff natural gas, propane, natural gas liquids, and other liquid fuel security operations
centers, operations dispatch and control rooms and centers, and emergency response and customer
emergencies (including leak calls) operations.
• Workers supporting drilling, production, processing, refining, and transporting natural gas, propane,
natural gas liquids, and other liquid fuels for use as end-use fuels, feedstocks for chemical
manufacturing, or use in electricity generation.
• Workers supporting propane gas service maintenance and restoration, including call centers.
• Workers supporting propane, natural gas liquids, and other liquid fuel distribution centers.
• Workers supporting propane gas storage, transmission, and distribution centers.
• Workers supporting new and existing construction projects, including, but not limited to,
pipeline construction.
• Workers supporting ethanol and biofuel production, refining, and distribution.
• Workers in fuel sectors (including, but not limited to nuclear, coal, and gas types and liquid fuels)
supporting the mining, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, permitting, operation, maintenance,
and monitoring of support for resources.
• Workers ensuring, monitoring, and engaging in the physical security of assets and locations associated
with natural gas, propane, natural gas liquids, and other liquid fuels.
• Workers involved in the manufacturing and distribution of equipment, supplies, and parts necessary to
maintain production, maintenance, restoration, and service of natural gas, propane, natural gas liquids,
and other liquid fuels operations and use, including end-users.

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WATER AND WASTEWATER

Workers needed to operate and maintain drinking water and wastewater and drainage infrastructure, including:
• Operational staff at water authorities.
• Operational staff at community water systems.
• Operational staff at wastewater treatment facilities.
• Workers repairing water and wastewater conveyances and performing required sampling or monitoring,
including field staff.
• Operational staff for water distribution and testing.
• Operational staff at wastewater collection facilities.
• Operational staff and technical support for SCADA Control systems.
• Laboratory staff performing water sampling and analysis.
• Suppliers and manufacturers of chemicals, equipment, personal protection equipment, and goods and
services for water and wastewater systems.
• Workers who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting water and wastewater operations.

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS

• Workers supporting or enabling transportation and logistics functions, including truck drivers, bus drivers,
dispatchers, maintenance and repair technicians, warehouse workers, third party logisticians, truck stop
and rest area workers, driver training and education centers, Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) workers,
enrollment agents for federal transportation worker vetting programs, towing and recovery services,
roadside assistance workers, intermodal transportation personnel, and workers that construct, maintain,
rehabilitate, and inspect infrastructure, including those that require cross-jurisdiction travel.
• Workers supporting the distribution of food, fuels, pharmaceuticals and medical material (including
materials used in radioactive drugs), and chemicals needed for water or water treatment and energy
maintenance.
• Workers supporting operation of essential highway infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and
tunnels (e.g., traffic operations centers and moveable bridge operators).
• Workers of firms providing services, supplies, and equipment that enable warehouse and operations,
including cooling, storing, packaging, and distributing products for wholesale or retail sale or use,
including cold- and frozen-chain logistics for food and critical biologic products.
• Mass transit workers providing critical transit services and performing critical or routine maintenance to
mass transit infrastructure or equipment.
• Workers supporting personal and commercial transportation services including taxis, delivery services,
vehicle rental services, bicycle maintenance and car-sharing services, and transportation network
providers.
• Workers, including police, responsible for operating and dispatching passenger, commuter, and freight
trains and maintaining rail infrastructure and equipment.
• Maritime transportation workers, including port authority and commercial facility personnel, dredgers, port
workers, security personnel, mariners, ship crewmembers, ship pilots, tugboat operators, equipment
operators (to include maintenance and repair, and maritime-specific medical providers), ship supply
workers, chandlers, repair company workers, and maritime and mariner training and education centers.
Refer to the United States Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Information Bulletin “Maintaining Maritime
Commerce and Identification of Essential Maritime Critical Infrastructure Workers” for more information.

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• Maritime transportation workers, including port authority and commercial facility personnel, dredgers, port
workers, security personnel, mariners, ship crewmembers, ship pilots, tugboat operators, equipment
operators (to include maintenance and repair, and maritime-specific medical providers), ship supply
workers, chandlers, repair company workers, and maritime and mariner training and education centers.
Refer to the United States Coast Guard’s Marine Safety Information Bulletin “Maintaining Maritime
Commerce and Identification of Essential Maritime Critical Infrastructure Workers” for more information.
• Workers, including truck drivers, railroad employees, maintenance crews, and cleaners, supporting
transportation of chemicals, hazardous, medical, and waste materials that support critical infrastructure,
capabilities, functions, and services, including specialized carriers, crane and rigging industry workers.
• Bus drivers and workers who provide or support intercity, commuter, and charter bus service in support of
other essential services or functions, including school bus drivers.
• Vehicle repair, maintenance, and transportation equipment manufacturing and distribution facilities.
• Workers who support the construction and maintenance of electric vehicle charging stations.
• Transportation safety inspectors, including hazardous material inspectors and accident
investigator inspectors.
• Manufacturers and distributors (to include service centers and related operations) of lighting and
communication systems, specialized signage and structural systems, emergency response equipment
and support materials, printers, printed materials, packaging materials, pallets, crates, containers, and
other supplies needed to support manufacturing, packaging staging and distribution operations, and
other critical infrastructure needs.
• Postal Service, parcel, courier, last-mile delivery, and shipping and related workers, to include private
companies, who accept, process, transport, and deliver information and goods.
• Workers who supply equipment and materials for maintenance of transportation equipment.
• Workers who repair and maintain vehicles, aircraft, rail equipment, marine vessels, bicycles, and the
equipment and infrastructure that enables operations that encompass movement of cargo and
passengers.
• Workers who support air transportation for cargo and passengers, including operation distribution,
maintenance, and sanitation. This includes air traffic controllers, flight dispatchers, maintenance
personnel, ramp workers, fueling agents, flight crews, airport safety inspectors and engineers, airport
operations personnel, aviation and aerospace safety workers, security, commercial space personnel,
operations personnel, accident investigators, flight instructors, and other on- and off-airport facilities
workers.
• Workers supporting transportation via inland waterways, such as barge crew, dredging crew, and river port
workers for essential goods.
• Workers critical to the manufacturing, distribution, sales, rental, leasing, repair, and maintenance of
vehicles and other equipment (including electric vehicle charging stations) and the supply chains that
enable these operations to facilitate continuity of travel-related operations for essential workers.
• Warehouse operators, including vendors and support personnel critical for business continuity (including
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and electrical engineers, security personnel, and
janitorial staff), e-commerce or online commerce, and customer service for essential functions.

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PUBLIC WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT SERVICES

• Workers who support the construction, maintenance, or rehabilitation of critical infrastructure.
• Workers supporting construction materials production, testing laboratories, material delivery services,
and construction inspection.
• Workers who support the operation, inspection, and maintenance of essential public works facilities and
operations, including bridges, water and sewer main breaks, fleet maintenance personnel, construction of
critical or strategic infrastructure, traffic signal maintenance, emergency location services for buried
utilities, maintenance of digital systems infrastructure supporting public works operations, and other
emergent issues.
• Workers such as plumbers, electricians, exterminators, builders (including building and insulation),
contractors, HVAC Technicians, technicians for elevators, escalators and moving walkways, landscapers,
and other service providers who provide services, including temporary construction, that are necessary to
maintaining the safety, sanitation, and essential operation of residences, businesses and buildings, such
as hospitals and senior living facilities.
• Workers personnel, who support operations that ensure, the availability of and access to needed
facilities, transportation, energy, and communications through activities such as road and line
clearing.
• Workers who support the effective removal, storage, and disposal of residential, industrial, and
commercial solid waste and hazardous waste, including at landfill operations.
• Workers who support the operation, inspection, and maintenance of essential dams, locks, and levees.
• Workers who support the inspection and maintenance of aids to navigation and other government-
provided services that ensure continued maritime commerce.
• Workers who support the operations and maintenance of parks and outdoor recreational facilities.

COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Communications
• Maintenance of communications infrastructure, -- including privately owned and maintained
communication systems, -- supported by technicians, operators, call centers, wireline and wireless
providers, cable service providers, satellite operations, Internet Exchange Points, Points of Presence,
Network Access Points, back haul and front haul facilities, and manufacturers and distributors of
communications equipment.
• Government and private sector workers, including government contractors, with work related to undersea
cable infrastructure and support facilities, including cable landing sites, beach manhole vaults and
covers, submarine cable depots, and submarine cable ship facilities.
• Government and private sector workers, including government contractors, supporting Department of
Defense internet and communications facilities.
• Network Operations staff, engineers, and technicians to include IT managers and staff, HVAC and
electrical engineers, security personnel, software and hardware engineers, and database administrators
that manage the network or operate facilities.
• Workers responsible for infrastructure construction and restoration, including but not limited to
engineers, technicians, and contractors for construction and engineering of fiber optic cables, buried
conduit, small cells, other wireless facilities, and other communications sector-related infrastructure. This
includes permitting, construction of new facilities, and deployment of new technology as required to
address congestion or customer usage due to unprecedented use of remote services.
• Installation, maintenance, and repair technicians that establish, support, or repair service as needed.

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• Central office personnel to maintain and operate central office, data centers, and other network office
facilities, including critical support personnel assisting front line workers.
• Customer service and support staff, including managed and professional services, as well as remote
providers of support to transitioning workers to set up and maintain home offices, who interface with
customers to manage or support service environments and security issues including payroll, billing, fraud,
logistics, and troubleshooting.
• Workers providing electronic security, fire, monitoring, and life safety services, and who ensure physical
security, cleanliness, and the safety of facilities and personnel, including those who provide temporary
licensing waivers for security personnel to work in other States or Municipalities.
• Dispatchers involved with service repair and restoration.
• Retail customer service personnel at critical service center locations to address customer needs,
including new customer processing, distributing and repairing equipment, and addressing customer
issues, in order to support individuals’ remote emergency communications needs.
• Supply chain and logistics personnel to ensure goods and products are available to provision these front-
line workers.
• External Affairs personnel to assist in coordinating with local, state, and federal officials to address
communications needs supporting COVID-19 response, public safety, and national security.
• Workers responsible for ensuring that persons with disabilities have access to and the benefits of various
communications platforms, including those involved in the provision of telecommunication relay services,
closed captioning of broadcast television for the deaf, video relay services for deaf citizens who prefer
communication via American Sign Language over text, and audio-description for television programming.
Information Technology
• Workers who support command centers, including, but not limited to, Network Operations Command
Centers, Broadcast Operations Control Centers, and Security Operations Command Centers.
• Data center operators, including system administrators, HVAC and electrical engineers, security
personnel, IT managers and purchasers, data transfer solutions engineers, software and hardware
engineers, and database administrators for all industries, including financial services.
• Workers who support client service centers, field engineers, and other technicians and workers
supporting critical infrastructure, as well as manufacturers and supply chain vendors that provide
hardware and software, support services, research and development, information technology
equipment (to include microelectronics and semiconductors), HVAC and electrical equipment for critical
infrastructure, and test labs and certification agencies that qualify such equipment (to include
microelectronics, optoelectronics, and semiconductors) for critical infrastructure, including data centers.
• Workers needed to preempt and respond to cyber incidents involving critical infrastructure, including
medical facilities; state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments and federal facilities; energy and
utilities; banks and financial institutions; securities and other exchanges; other entities that support the
functioning of capital markets, public works, critical manufacturing, food, and agricultural production;
transportation; and other critical infrastructure categories and personnel, in addition to all cyber defense
workers who can't perform their duties remotely.
• Suppliers, designers, transporters, and other workers supporting the manufacture, distribution, provision,
and construction of essential global, national, and local infrastructure for computing services (including
cloud computing services and telework capabilities), business infrastructure, financial transactions and
services, web-based services, and critical manufacturing.

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• Workers supporting communications systems, information technology, and work from home solutions
used by law enforcement, public safety, medical, energy, public works, critical manufacturing, food
and agricultural production, financial services, in person and remote education, and other critical
industries and businesses.

• Workers required in person to support Software as a Service businesses that enable remote working,
and education performance of business operations, distance learning, media services, and digital
health offerings, or required for technical support crucial for business continuity and connectivity.

OTHER COMMUNITY- OR GOVERNMENT-BASED OPERATIONS AND ESSENTIAL

FUNCTIONS
• Workers to ensure continuity of building functions, including but not limited to security and environmental
controls (e.g., HVAC), building transportation equipment, the manufacturing and distribution of the products
required for these functions, and the permits and inspections for construction supporting essential
infrastructure.
• Elections personnel to include both public and private sector elections support.
• Workers supporting the operations of the judicial system, including judges, lawyers, and others providing
legal assistance.
• Workers who support administration and delivery of unemployment insurance programs, income
maintenance, employment services, vocational rehabilitation programs and services, disaster assistance,
workers’ compensation insurance and benefits programs, and pandemic assistance.
• Federal, State, and Local, Tribal, and Territorial government workers who support Mission Essential
Functions and communications networks.
• Trade Officials (FTA negotiators; international data flow administrators).
• Workers who support radio, print, internet and television news and media services, including, but not
limited to front line news reporters, studio, and technicians for newsgathering, reporting, and publishing
news.
• Workers supporting Census 2020.
• Weather forecasters.
• Clergy and other essential support for houses of worship.
• Workers who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting other critical government operations.
• Workers who support necessary permitting, credentialing, vetting, certifying, and licensing for
essential critical infrastructure workers and their operations.
• Customs and immigration workers who are critical to facilitating trade in support of the
national emergency response supply chain.
• Workers at testing and education centers for emergency medical services and other healthcare workers.
• Staff at government offices who perform title search, notary, and recording services in support
of mortgage and real estate services and transactions.
• Residential and commercial real estate services, including settlement services.

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• Workers supporting essential maintenance, manufacturing, design, operation, inspection,

security, and construction for essential products, services, supply chain, and COVID-19
relief efforts.
• Workers performing services to animals in human care, including zoos and aquariums.
• Engineers performing or supporting safety inspections.
• Veterinary nurses, technicians, veterinarians, and other services supporting individuals and
organizations with service animals, search and rescue dogs, and support animals.
• Workers providing dependent care services, whether working in homes, or other private or institutional
settings, including childcare, eldercare, house cleaning, and other service providers necessary to
maintain a comprehensive, supportive environment for individuals and caregivers needing these
services.

CRITICAL MANUFACTURING
• Workers necessary for the manufacturing of metals (including steel and aluminum), industrial minerals,
semiconductors, materials and products needed for medical supply chains and for supply chains
associated with transportation, building transportation equipment, aerospace, energy,
communications, information technology, food and agriculture, chemical manufacturing, nuclear
facilities, wood products, commodities used as fuel for power generation facilities, the operation of
dams, water and wastewater treatment, processing and reprocessing of solid waste, emergency
services, and the defense industrial base. Additionally, workers needed to maintain the continuity of
these manufacturing functions and associated supply chains, and workers necessary to maintain a
manufacturing operation in warm standby.
• Workers necessary for the manufacturing of materials and products needed to manufacture medical
equipment, PPE, and sanctioned substitutes for PPE.
• Workers necessary for mining and production of critical minerals, materials and associated essential
supply chains, and workers engaged in the manufacture and maintenance of equipment and other
infrastructure necessary for mining production and distribution.
• Workers who produce or manufacture parts or equipment that supports continued operations for any
essential services and increase in remote workforce, including computing and communication devices,
semiconductors, and equipment such as security tools for Security Operations Centers (SOCs) or data
centers.
• Workers manufacturing or providing parts and equipment that enable the maintenance and continued
operation of essential businesses and facilities.

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
• Workers who manage hazardous materials associated with any other essential activity, including but not
limited to healthcare waste (medical, pharmaceuticals, medical material production, and testing
operations from laboratories processing and testing kits) and energy (including nuclear facilities).
• Workers who support hazardous materials response and cleanup.
• Workers who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting hazardous materials management
operations.

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FINANCIAL SERVICES
• Workers who are needed to provide, process, and maintain systems for processing, verification, and
recording of financial transactions and services, including payment, clearing, and settlement; wholesale
funding; insurance services; consumer and commercial lending; public accounting; and capital markets
activities.
• Workers who are needed to maintain orderly market operations to ensure the continuity of financial
transactions and services.
• Workers who are needed to provide business, commercial, and consumer access to bank and non-bank
financial services and lending services, including ATMs, lending and money transmission, lockbox
banking, and to move currency, checks, securities, and payments (e.g., armored cash carriers).
• Workers who support financial operations and those staffing call centers, such as those staffing data and
security operations centers, managing physical security, or providing accounting services.
• Workers supporting production and distribution of debit and credit cards.
• Workers providing electronic point of sale support personnel for essential businesses and workers.
• Workers who support law enforcement requests and support regulatory compliance efforts critical to
national security, such as meeting anti-money laundering and countering terrorist financing and sanctions
screening requirements.

CHEMICAL
• Workers supporting the chemical and industrial gas supply chains, including workers at chemical
manufacturing plants, laboratories, distribution facilities, and workers who transport basic raw chemical
materials to the producers of industrial and consumer goods, including hand sanitizers, food and food
additives, pharmaceuticals, paintings and coatings, textiles, building materials, plumbing, electrical, and
paper products.
• Workers supporting the safe transportation of chemicals, including those supporting tank truck cleaning
facilities and workers who manufacture packaging items.
• Workers supporting the production of protective cleaning and medical solutions, PPE, chemical consumer
and institutional products, disinfectants, fragrances, and packaging that prevents the contamination of
food, water, medicine, among others essential products.
• Workers supporting the operation and maintenance of facilities (particularly those with high-risk
chemicals and sites that cannot be shut down) whose work cannot be done remotely and requires the
presence of highly trained personnel to ensure safe operations, including plant contract workers who
provide inspections.
• Workers (including those in glass container manufacturing) who support the production and
transportation of chlorine and alkali manufacturing, single-use plastics, and packaging that prevents the
contamination or supports the continued manufacture of food, water, medicine, and other essential
products.

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DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE

• Workers who support the essential services required to meet national security commitments to the
federal government and U.S. Military, including, but are not limited to, space and aerospace workers,
nuclear matters workers, mechanical and software engineers (various disciplines), manufacturing and
production workers, transportation logistics and cargo handling workers, IT support, security staff,
security personnel, intelligence support, aircraft and weapon system mechanics and maintainers, and
sanitary workers who maintain the hygienic viability of necessary facilities.
• Personnel working for companies, and their subcontractors, who perform under contract or sub-contract
to the Department of Defense (DoD),the Department of Energy (DoE) (on nuclear matters), and
Department of Transportation (DOT) as well as personnel at government owned/government operated
and government-owned/contractor operated facilities and vessels, and who provide materials and
services to DoE (on nuclear matters) and the DoD, including support for weapon systems, software
systems and cybersecurity, defense and intelligence communications, surveillance, sale of U.S. defense
articles and services for export to foreign allies and partners (as authorized by the U.S. government),
transportation and logistics, and space systems and other activities in support of our military,
intelligence, and space forces.

COMMERCIAL FACILITIES
• Workers who support the supply chain of building materials from production through application and
installation, including cabinetry, fixtures, doors, cement, hardware, plumbing (including parts and
services), electrical, heating and cooling, refrigeration, appliances, paint and coatings, and workers who
provide services that enable repair materials and equipment for essential functions.
• Workers supporting ecommerce of essential goods through distribution, warehouse, call center facilities,
and other essential operational support functions, that accept, store, and process goods, and that
facilitate their transportation and delivery.
• Workers in retail and non-retail businesses – and necessary merchant wholesalers and distributors -
necessary to provide access to hardware and building materials, consumer electronics, technology
products, appliances, emergency preparedness supplies, home exercise and fitness supplies, and
home school instructional supplies.
• Workers distributing, servicing, repairing, installing residential and commercial HVAC systems,
building transportation equipment, boilers, furnaces and other heating, cooling, refrigeration, and
ventilation equipment.
• Workers supporting the operations of commercial buildings that are critical to safety, security, and the
continuance of essential activities, such as on-site property managers, building engineers, security staff,
fire safety directors, janitorial personnel, and service technicians (e.g., mechanical, HVAC, plumbers,
electricians, and elevator).
• Management and staff at hotels and other temporary lodging facilities that provide for COVID-19
mitigation, containment, and treatment measures or provide accommodations for essential
workers.

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RESIDENTIAL/SHELTER FACILITIES, HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE, AND RELATED

SERVICES
• Workers who support food, shelter, and social services, and other necessities of life for needy groups and
individuals, including in-need populations and COVID-19 responders, including traveling medical staff.
• Workers in animal shelters.
• Workers responsible for the leasing of residential properties to provide individuals and families with ready
access to available housing.
• Workers responsible for handling property management, maintenance, and related service calls who can
coordinate the response to emergency “at-home” situations requiring immediate attention, as well as
facilitate the reception of deliveries, mail, and other necessary services.
• Workers performing housing and commercial construction related activities, including those supporting
the sale, transportation, and installation of manufactured homes.
• Workers supporting government functions related to the building and development process, such as
inspections, permitting, and plan review services that can be modified to protect the public health, but
fundamentally should continue and enable the continuity of the construction industry (e.g., allow qualified
private third-party inspections in case of federal government shutdown).
• Workers performing services in support of the elderly and disabled populations who coordinate a variety of
services, including health care appointments and activities of daily living.
• Workers responsible for the movement and provisioning of household goods.

HYGIENE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

• Workers who produce hygiene products.
• Workers in laundromats, laundry services, and dry cleaners.
• Workers providing personal and household goods, repair, and maintenance, including workers such as
house cleaners, plumbers, appliance repair persons, and electricians, among others.
• Workers providing disinfection services for all essential facilities and modes of transportation and who
support the sanitation of all food manufacturing processes and operations from wholesale to retail.
• Workers necessary for the installation, maintenance, distribution, and manufacturing of water and
space heating equipment and its components.
• Support required for continuity of services, including commercial disinfectant services, janitorial and
cleaning personnel, and support personnel functions that need freedom of movement to access facilities
in support of front-line workers.
• Workers supporting the production of home cleaning, pest control, and other essential products
necessary to clean, disinfect, sanitize, and ensure the cleanliness of residential homes, shelters, and
commercial facilities.
• Workers supporting agriculture irrigation infrastructure.
• Workers supporting the production of home cleaning and pest control products.

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