Governor DeSantis Executive Order 20-91
ESSENTIAL SERVICES LIST
HEALTHCARE / PUBLIC HEALTH
• Workers who perform critical clinical research, development, and testing needed for
COVID-19 response.
• Healthcare providers and Caregivers including physicians, dentists, psychologists, mid-
level practitioners, nurses and assistants, infection control and quality assurance
personnel, pharmacists, physical and occupational therapists and assistants,
rehabilitation facility workers, social workers, optometrists, speech pathologists,
chiropractors, and diagnostic and therapeutic technicians and technologists.
• Hospital and laboratory personnel (including accounting, administrative, admitting and
discharge, engineering, epidemiological, source plasma and blood donation, food
service, housekeeping, medical records, information technology and operational
technology, nutritionists, sanitarians, respiratory therapists, etc.).
• Workers in other medical and biomedical facilities (including Ambulatory Health and
Surgical, Blood Banks, Clinics, Community Mental Health, Comprehensive Outpatient
rehabilitation, End Stage Renal Disease, Health Departments, Home Health care,
Hospices, Hospitals, Long Term Care, Nursing Care Facilities, Organ Pharmacies,
Procurement Organizations, Psychiatric Residential, Rural Health Clinics and Federally
Qualified Health Centers, and retail facilities specializing in medical good and supplies).
• Manufacturer workers for health manufacturing (including biotechnology companies),
materials and parts suppliers, logistics and warehouse operators, distributors of medical
equipment (including those who test and repair), personal protective equipment (PPE),
isolation barriers, medical gases, pharmaceuticals (including materials used in
radioactive drugs), dietary supplements, blood and blood products, vaccines, testing
materials, laboratory supplies, cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting or sterilization supplies,
and tissue and paper towel products.
• Public health / community health workers, including those who compile, model, analyze
and communicate public health information.
• Blood and plasma donors and the employees of the organizations that operate and
manage related activities.
• Workers who manage health plans, billing, and health information, who cannot
practically work remotely.
• Workers who conduct community-based public health functions, conducting
epidemiologic surveillance, compiling, analyzing and communicating public health
information, who cannot practically work remotely.
• Workers performing information technology and cybersecurity functions at healthcare
and public health facilities, who cannot practically 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.
• Pharmacy employees necessary to maintain uninterrupted prescription filling.
• Workers performing mortuary funeral, cremation, burial, cemetery, and related
services, including funeral homes, crematoriums, cemetery workers, and coffin makers.
• 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/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) in emergency
management, law enforcement, fire and rescue services, emergency medical services,
and private security, to include public and private hazardous material responders, air
medical service providers (pilots and supporting technicians), corrections, and search
and rescue personnel.
• 911 call center employees and Public Safety Answering Points who can’t perform their
duties remotely.
• Fusion Center employees.
• Workers – including contracted vendors -- who maintain, manufacture, or supply
equipment and services supporting law enforcement emergency service and response
operations (to include electronic security and life safety security personnel).
• Workers supporting the manufacturing of safety equipment and uniforms for law
enforcement, public safety personnel, and first responder.
• 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, elders, and
dependent adults.
• Workers who support weather disaster / natural hazard mitigation and prevention
activities.
• Security staff to maintain building access control and physical security measures.
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
• Workers supporting groceries, farmers’ markets, produce stands, food banks,
pharmacies, convenience stores, and other retail (including unattended and vending)
that sells human food, animal/pet food and pet supply, and beverage products,
including retail customer support service and information technology support staff
necessary for online orders, pickup and delivery.
• Restaurant carry-out and quick serve food operations, including dark kitchen and food
prep centers, and carryout and delivery food employees.
• Food manufacturer employees and their supplier employees—to include those
employed in food ingredient production and processing facilities; livestock, poultry,
seafood slaughter facilities; pet and animal feed processing facilities; human food
facilities producing by-products for animal food; beverage production facilities; and the
production of food packaging.
• Farmers, farm workers, and agribusiness support services to include those employed in
auction and sales: grain and oilseed handling, processing and distribution; animal food,
feed, and ingredient production, packaging, and distribution; manufacturing, packaging,
and distribution of veterinary drugs; truck delivery and transport; farm and fishery labor
needed to produce our food supply domestically and for export.
• Farmers, farm workers, support service workers, and their supplier employees to
include those engaged in producing and harvesting field crops; commodity inspection;
fuel ethanol facilities; biodiesel and renewable diesel facilities; storage facilities; and
other agricultural inputs.
• Employees and firms supporting the distribution of food, feed, 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 food manufacturing processes
and operations from wholesale to retail.
• Employees in cafeterias used to feed employees, particularly employee populations
sheltered against COVID-19.
• Workers in animal diagnostic and food testing laboratories in private industries and in
institutions of higher education.
• Government, private, and non-governmental organizations’ workers essential for food
assistance programs (including school lunch programs) and government payments.
• Employees of companies engaged in the production, storage, transport, and distribution
of chemicals, medicines, vaccines, and other substances used by the food and
agriculture industry, including seeds, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, minerals,
enrichments, 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 of
animals for food; animal production operations; livestock markets; slaughter and
packing plants, manufacturers, renderers, and associated regulatory and government
workforce.
• Transportation supporting animal agricultural industries, including movement of animal
medical and reproductive supplies and materials, animal vaccines, animal drugs, feed
ingredients, feed, and bedding, live animals, animal by-products, and deceased animals
for disposal.
• Workers who support sawmills and the manufacture and distribution of fiber and forest
products, including, but not limited to timber, paper, and other wood and fiber
products.
• Employees engaged in the manufacture and maintenance of equipment and other
infrastructure necessary for agricultural production and distribution.
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, or who are needed to monitor, operate,
engineer, and maintain the reliability, safety, environmental health, and physical and
cyber security of the energy system.
• Energy/commodity trading/scheduling/marketing functions, who can't perform their
duties remotely.
• IT and OT technology for essential energy sector operations including support workers,
customer service operations; energy management systems, control systems, and
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA systems, and energy sector entity data
centers; cybersecurity engineers; and cybersecurity risk management.
• Workers supporting the energy sector through renewable energy infrastructure
(including, but not limited to wind, solar, biomass, hydrogen, ocean, geothermal, and/or
hydroelectric), including those supporting construction, manufacturing, transportation,
permitting, operation/maintenance, monitoring, and logistics.
• Workers and security staff involved in nuclear re-fueling operations.
• Providing services related to energy sector fuels (including, but not limited, petroleum
(crude oil), natural gas, propane, natural gas liquids, other liquid fuels, nuclear, and
coal), supporting the mining, processing, manufacturing, construction, logistics,
transportation, permitting, operation/maintenance, security, waste disposal and
storage, and monitoring of support for resources.
• Environmental remediation/monitoring, limited to immediate critical needs technicians.
• 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:
o Workers who maintain, ensure, or restore, or 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, constraint maintenance, and fleet
maintenance technicians who cannot perform their duties remotely.
o Workers at coal mines, production facilities, and those involved in
manufacturing, transportation, permitting, operation/maintenance and
monitoring at coal sites which is critical to ensuring the reliability of the electrical
system.
o Workers who produce, process, ship and handle coal used for power generation
and manufacturing.
o Workers needed for safe and secure operations at nuclear generation to include
but not limited to, the broader nuclear supply chain, parts to maintain nuclear
equipment, fuel manufacturers and fuel components used in the manufacturing
of fuel.
o Workers at renewable energy infrastructure (including, but not limited to wind,
solar, biomass, hydrogen, geothermal, and/or hydroelectric), including those
supporting construction, manufacturing, transportation, permitting,
operation/maintenance, monitoring, and logistics.
o Workers at generation, transmission, and electric black start facilities.
o Workers at Reliability Coordinator, Balancing Authorities, and primary and
backup Control Centers, including but not limited to independent system
operators, regional transmission organizations, and local distribution control
centers.
o Mutual assistance personnel which may include workers from outside of the
state or local jurisdiction.
o Vegetation management and traffic control for supporting those crews.
o Environmental remediation/monitoring workers limited to immediate critical
needs technicians.
o Instrumentation, protection, and control technicians.
o Essential support personnel for electricity operations.
o Generator set support workers such as diesel engineers used in power
generation including those providing fuel.
• Petroleum industry:
o Workers for 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.
o Workers for crude oil, petroleum and petroleum product storage and
transportation, including pipeline, marine transport, terminals, rail transport,
storage facilities and 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.
o Petroleum and petroleum product security operations center employees and
workers who support maintenance and emergency response services.
o Petroleum and petroleum product operations control rooms/centers and
refinery facilities.
o Retail fuel centers such as gas stations and truck stops, and the distribution
systems that support them.
o Supporting new and existing construction projects, including, but not limited to,
pipeline construction. Natural Gas, Natural Gas Liquids (NGL), Propane, and
other liquid fuels
o 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.
o 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.
o Natural gas, propane, natural gas liquids, and other liquid fuel processing plants,
including construction, maintenance, and support operations.
o Natural gas processing plants workers, and those that deal with natural gas
liquids.
o Workers who staff natural gas, propane, natural gas liquids, and other liquid fuel
security operations centers, operations dispatch and control rooms/centers, and
emergency response and customer emergencies (including leak calls) operations.
o Drilling, production, processing, refining, and transporting natural gas for use as
end-use fuels, feedstocks for chemical manufacturing, or use in electricity
generation.
o Dispatch and control rooms and emergency response and customer
emergencies, including propane leak calls.
o Propane gas service maintenance and restoration, including call centers.
o Propane, natural gas liquids, and other liquid fuel distribution centers.
o Propane gas storage, transmission, and distribution centers.
o Supporting new and existing construction projects, including, but not limited to,
pipeline construction.
o Ethanol and biofuel production, refining, and distribution.
o 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.
WATER AND WASTEWATER
• Employees needed to operate and maintain drinking water and wastewater/drainage
infrastructure, including:
o Operational staff at water authorities.
o Operational staff at community water systems.
o Operational staff at wastewater treatment facilities.
o Workers repairing water and wastewater conveyances and performing required
sampling or monitoring, including field staff.
o Operational staff for water distribution and testing.
o Operational staff at wastewater collection facilities.
o Operational staff and technical support for SCADA Control systems.
o Chemical and equipment suppliers to water and wastewater systems and
personnel protection.
o Workers who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting water and
wastewater operations.
TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS
• Employees supporting or enabling transportation functions, including truck drivers, bus
drivers, dispatchers, maintenance and repair technicians, warehouse workers, truck
stop and rest area workers, Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) employees,
towing/recovery services, roadside assistance workers, intermodal transportation
personnel, and workers who maintain and inspect infrastructure (including those that
require cross-jurisdiction travel).
• Workers supporting the distribution of food, pharmaceuticals (including materials used
in radioactive drugs) and other medical materials, fuels, chemicals needed for water or
water treatment and energy Maintenance and operation of essential highway
infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and tunnels (e.g., traffic operations centers and
moveable bridge operators).
• Employees 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. Includes cold- and frozen-chain logistics for food and
critical biologic products.
• Mass transit workers and providing critical transit services and/or performing critical or
routine maintenance to mass transit infrastructure or equipment.
• Employees supporting personal and commercial transportation services – including
taxis, delivery services, vehicle rental services, bicycle maintenance and car-sharing
services, and transportation network providers.
• Workers responsible for operating and dispatching passenger, commuter and freight
trains and maintaining rail infrastructure and equipment.
• Maritime transportation workers, including dredgers, port workers, mariners, ship
crewmembers, ship pilots and tug boat operators, equipment operators (to include
maintenance and repair, and maritime-specific medical, ship supply, chandler, and
repair companies.
• Workers including truck drivers, railroad employees and contractors, maintenance crew,
and cleaners supporting transportation of chemicals, hazardous, medical, and waste
materials to 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.
• Automotive repair, maintenance, and transportation equipment manufacturing and
distribution facilities (including those who repair and maintain 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
packaging materials, pallets, crates, containers, and other supplies needed to support
manufacturing, packaging staging and distribution operations.
• Postal, parcel, courier, last-mile delivery, and shipping and related workers, to include
private companies.
• Employees 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.
• Air transportation employees, including air traffic controllers and maintenance
personnel, ramp workers, aviation and aerospace safety, security, and operations
personnel and accident investigations.
• Workers who support the operation, distribution, maintenance, and sanitation, of air
transportation for cargo and passengers, including flight crews, maintenance, airport
operations, those responsible for cleaning and disinfection, and other on- and off-
airport facilities workers.
• Workers supporting transportation via inland waterways such as barge crew, dredging,
river port workers for essential goods.
• Workers critical to rental and leasing of vehicles and equipment that facilitate continuity
of operations for essential workforces and other essential travel.
• Warehouse operators, including vendors and support personnel critical for business
continuity (including HVAC & electrical engineers; security personnel; and janitorial
staff) and customer service for essential functions.
• Marinas, boat launches, docking, fueling, marine supply and other marina services only
as set forth in Miami-Dade County Emergency Order 06-20, as amended prior to April 3,
2020.
PUBLIC WORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT SERVICES
• 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, contractors, HVAC
Technicians, landscapers, pool care service providers, and other service providers who
provide services that are necessary to maintaining the safety, sanitation, and essential
operation of residences, businesses and buildings such as hospitals, senior living
facilities, any temporary construction required to support COVID-19 response.
• Workers who support, such as road and line clearing, to ensure the availability of and
access to needed facilities, transportation, energy and communications.
• Support to ensure the effective removal, storage, and disposal of residential and
commercial solid waste and hazardous waste, including 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.
COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• Communications:
o 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.
o Government and private sector employees (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.
o Government and private sector employees (including government contractors)
supporting Department of Defense internet and communications facilities.
o Workers who support radio, television, and media service, including, but not
limited to front-line news reporters, studio, and technicians for newsgathering,
and reporting, and publishing news.
o Network Operations staff, engineers and/or technicians to include IT managers
and staff, HVAC & electrical engineers, security personnel, software and
hardware engineers, and database administrators that manage the network or
operate facilities.
o Engineers, technicians and associated personnel responsible for infrastructure
construction and restoration, including contractors for construction and
engineering of fiber optic cables, buried conduit, small cells, other wireless
facilities, and other communications sector-related infrastructure. This includes
construction of new facilities and deployment of new technology as these are
required to address congestion or customer usage due to unprecedented use of
remote services.
o Installation, maintenance and repair technicians that establish, support or repair
service as needed.
o Central office personnel to maintain and operate central office, data centers, and
other network office facilities, critical support personnel assisting front line
employees.
o Customer service and support staff, including managed and professional services
as well as remote providers of support to transitioning employees 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.
o Workers providing electronic security, fire, monitoring and life safety services,
and to ensure physical security, cleanliness and safety of facilities and personnel,
including temporary licensing waivers for security personnel to work in other
States of Municipalities.
o Dispatchers involved with service repair and restoration.
o Retail customer service personnel at critical service center locations for
onboarding customers, 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 on-boarded to provision these front-line employees.
o 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.
• Information Technology:
o Workers who support command centers, including, but not limited to Network
Operations Command Centers, Broadcast Operations Control Centers and
Security Operations Command Centers.
o Data center operators, including system administrators, HVAC & 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).
o 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, and information technology
equipment (to include microelectronics and semiconductors), and 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.
o Workers needed to preempt and respond to cyber incidents involving critical
infrastructure, including medical facilities, SLTT governments and federal
facilities, energy and utilities, and banks and financial institutions,
securities/other exchanges, other entities that support the functioning of capital
markets, public works, critical manufacturing, food & agricultural production,
transportation, and other critical infrastructure categories and personnel, in
addition to all cyber defense workers (who can't perform their duties remotely).
o Suppliers, designers, transporters and other workers supporting the
manufacture, distribution and provision and construction of essential global,
national and local infrastructure for computing services (including cloud
computing services and telework capabilities), business infrastructure, financial
transactions/services, web-based services, and critical manufacturing.
o Workers supporting communications systems and information technology- and
work from home solutions- used by law enforcement, public safety, medical,
energy, public works, critical manufacturing, food & agricultural production,
financial services, education, and other critical industries and businesses.
o Employees required in person to support Software as a Service businesses that
enable remote working, 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), the manufacturing and distribution of the
products required for these functions, and the permits and inspections for construction
supporting essential infrastructure.
• Workers providing architectural, engineering or land surveying services.
• Elections personnel to include both public and private sector elections support.
• Workers supporting the operations of the judicial system.
• State of Florida employees (State of Florida employees should follow guidance regarding
telework, leave, and office closures as provided by their Human Resources Office and
the Department of Management Services)
• Federal, Local, Tribal, and Territorial employees who support Mission Essential
Functions and communications networks.
• Trade Officials (FTA negotiators; international data flow administrators).
• Employees necessary to maintain news and media operations across various media.
• Employees supporting Census 2020.
• Weather forecasters.
• Clergy for essential support.
• Workers who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting other critical
government operations.
• Workers who support necessary credentialing, vetting and licensing operations for
critical infrastructure workers.
• Customs and immigration workers who are critical to facilitating trade in support of the
national emergency response supply chain.
• Educators supporting public and private K-12 schools, colleges, and universities for
purposes of facilitating distance learning or performing other essential functions.
• 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.
• Workers supporting essential maintenance, manufacturing, design, operation,
inspection, security, and construction for essential products, services, and supply chain
and COVID 19 relief efforts.
• Professional services, such as legal or accounting services, when necessary to assist in
compliance with legally mandated activities.
• Childcare providers that enable employees exempted to work as permitted. To the
extent possible, childcare facilities should operate under the following mandatory
conditions:
o Childcare must be carried out in stable groups of 10 or fewer (inclusive of
childcare providers for the group)
o Children and childcare providers shall not change from one group to another
o If more than one group of children is cared for at on facility, each group shall be
in separate rooms. Groups shall not mix or interact with each other.
• Any employees whose business is interacting with customers solely through electronic
or telephonic means and delivering products via mailing, shipping, or delivery services.
• Hotel, motel, other commercial lodging establishment workers.
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, 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 and personal protective equipment (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).
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), testing operations (laboratories processing test kits), and energy
(nuclear facilities) Workers at nuclear facilities, workers managing medical waste,
workers managing waste from pharmaceuticals and medical material production, and
workers at laboratories processing tests Workers who support hazardous materials
response and cleanup.
• Workers who maintain digital systems infrastructure supporting hazardous materials
management operations.
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; 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, 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.
CHEMICAL
• Workers supporting the chemical and industrial gas supply chains, including workers at
chemical manufacturing plants, workers in laboratories, workers at distribution facilities,
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,
personal protective equipment, disinfectants, fragrances, and packaging that prevents
the contamination of food, water, medicine, among others essential.
• Workers supporting the operation and maintenance of facilities (particularly those with
high risk chemicals and/ or 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 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, including glass container manufacturing.
DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE
• Workers who support the essential services required to meet national security
commitments to the federal government and U.S. Military. These individuals include,
but are not limited to, space and aerospace; mechanical and software engineers
(various disciplines), manufacturing/production 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, as well as personnel at
government-owned/contractor- operated and government owned/government-
operated facilities, and who provide materials and services to the Department of
Defense, including support for weapon systems, software systems and cybersecurity,
defense and intelligence communications and surveillance, 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/installation, including cabinetry, fixtures, doors, cement, hardware,
plumbing, electrical, heating/cooling, refrigeration, appliances, paint/coatings, and
employees who provide services that enable repair materials and equipment for
essential functions.
• Workers supporting ecommerce through distribution, warehouse, call center facilities,
and other essential operational support functions.
• Workers in hardware and building materials stores, consumer electronics, technology
and appliances retail, and related merchant wholesalers and distributors - with reduced
staff to ensure continued operations.
• Workers distributing, servicing, repairing, installing residential and commercial HVAC
systems, boilers, furnaces and other heating, cooling, refrigeration, and ventilation
equipment.
RESIDENTIAL/SHELTER FACILITIES AND SERVICES
• Workers in dependent care services, in support of workers in other essential products
and 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 travelling 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 construction related activities to ensure additional units
can be made available to combat the nation’s existing housing supply shortage.
• 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 supporting the construction of housing, including those 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 serve the construction of housing (e.g., allow
qualified private third-party inspections in case of government shutdown).
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.
• Workers providing disinfection services, for all essential facilities and modes of
transportation, and supporting 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/cleaning personnel, and support personnel functions that need freedom of
movement to access facilities in support of front-line employees.
ESSENTIAL ACTIVITIES
• Attending religious services conducted in churches, synagogues and houses of worship
• Participating in recreational activities (consistent with social distancing guidelines) such
as walking, biking, hiking, fishing, hunting, running, or swimming
• Taking care of pets
• Caring for or otherwise assisting a loved one or friend
