The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alaska
- Level
- State
- Authority
- AS 18.60.075(a); 29 U.S.C. 654(a)(1) (recited in the FAQ); 8 AAC 61.1010 (29 C.F.R. 1910.134 respiratory protection, recited)
- Issued
- 2020-05-27 May 27, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-05-27 (posted; live at retrieval on Sept. 28, 2026) (read as 2020-05-27)
- End
- standing guidance (live at retrieval) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since May 27, 2020 (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
- Character
- guidance incorporated
- Collection
- Standing duties: Alaska DUT-AK
Operative words
An "Exposure Control Plan" developed for your business shall identify at risk workers through an updated risk assessment and take the appropriate steps to protect them. This is a requirement of The General Duty Clause, Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970, 29 USC 654(a)(1)... The employer is required to use the Hierarchy of Controls appropriately
Penalty
None in the instrument; the duties it states are enforced under AS 18.60.095 (DUT-AK-005)
What it required
The State plan agency's own statement to Alaska employers that a COVID-19 exposure control plan and risk assessment 'is a requirement of The General Duty Clause', that 'The employer is required to use the Hierarchy of Controls', that employers with required or voluntary respirator use 'must continue to manage their respiratory protection programs', and, recorded exactly, that the State's cloth face-covering Health Alert 'is not considered a mandate, but a recommendation'.
Retrieval noteInterpretive agency guidance with a disclaimer that it 'does not constitute legal advice'; the duty it states derives from AS 18.60.075(a)(4) and 29 U.S.C. 654(a)(1), and the face-covering paragraph records a recommendation, not a mandate. Register discipline: the FAQ is cited for what the agency said the standing duty required, and the face-covering sentence is cited as the recommendation it is.