The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alaska
- Level
- State
- Authority
- AS 18.60.030 (powers of the department to adopt occupational safety and health standards)
- Issued
- 2026-09-28 Sept. 28, 2026
- Effective
- standing (read as 2026-09-28)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 28, 2026 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- employers (general industry, construction, agriculture; recordkeeping under part 1904)
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Alaska DUT-AK
Operative words
(b) Under AS 18.60.030, 29 C.F.R. 1910.5(c) and (d), 1910.6, 1910.7, 1910.12, 1910.19-1910.1018, 1910.1020, and 1910.1024-1910.1450, as amended, are occupational safety and health standards in this state, as revised in this section and except as provided in 8 AAC 61.1020-8 AAC 61.1110.
Penalty
AS 18.60.095 civil penalties for violation of an adopted standard (DUT-AK-005)
What it required
Makes the federal general-industry standards, 'as amended', enforceable Alaska standards under AS 18.60.075(a)(1): among them 29 C.F.R. 1910.132 (personal protective equipment and hazard assessment), 1910.134 (respiratory protection), 1910.141 (sanitation), 1910.1030 (bloodborne pathogens) and 1910.1200 (hazard communication), which OSHA's COVID-19 enforcement guidance applied to pandemic exposures, and the range 1910.19-1910.1018 within which OSHA placed Subpart U, the COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency Temporary Standard (29 C.F.R. 1910.502-1910.509), implemented in Alaska by Program Directive 21-05 (DUT-AK-007).
Retrieval noteCodified text as reproduced by Cornell LII's Alaska Administrative Code mirror; the official online publisher blocked fetching. Subsection (a) adopts the part 1904 recordkeeping rules under which COVID-19 cases were recordable and reportable; (c) adopts the construction standards (part 1926); (d) the agriculture standards (part 1928).