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Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce, Version 4.1

Advisory Memorandum on Ensuring Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers' Ability to Work During the COVID-19 Response

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of Homeland Security (Director Jen Easterly) · United States (Federal)

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Jurisdiction
United States
Level
Federal
Authority
Advisory memorandum under the National Critical Functions framework; incorporated by reference in State closure and essential-business orders
Issued
2021-08-10 Aug. 10, 2021
Effective
2021-08-10 (advisory; effect through State orders incorporating 'the most recent' CISA list) (read as 2021-08-10)
End
superseded by later CISA guidance in 2022 (not verified) (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Aug. 10, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • State and local officials
  • critical-infrastructure owners and operators
Functions reached
  • CL cleaning and laundry (listed essential)
  • RP repair (listed essential)
  • FH funeral homes (listed essential)
  • SL salons (never listed: the omission is the closure predicate in CISA-adopting States)
  • PS pet grooming (never listed; only shelters and veterinary)
Collection
Personal Care and Other Services SEC-18

Operative words

This list is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be considered, a federal directive or standard.... 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.... Mortuary service providers, such as: Workers performing mortuary funeral, cremation, burial, cemetery, and related services, including funeral homes, crematoriums, cemetery workers, and coffin makers.... Workers needed to provide laundry services, food services, reprocessing of medical equipment [healthcare support].... Workers in animal shelters.

Enforcement

None of its own; the State orders that incorporated it carried their own penalties

Notes

Q3 2021 federal instrument: the memorandum states that 'with newer and more contagious variants... we are entering a new phase of the pandemic response' and re-issues the list on Aug. 10, 2021; salons, barbers, nail, spa and pet grooming are absent from every version, which is why every CISA-adopting State's closure order reached them.

Retrieval note

The laundry, repair, mortuary and animal-shelter lines quoted above appear at the text lines 1234-1237, 379-382, 1208.

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