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<br />Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: <br />Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 <br />Response <br />Version 1.1(March 23, 2020) <br />THE IMPORTANCE OF ESSENTIAL CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE WORKERS <br />Functioning critical infrastructure is imperative during the response to the COVID-19 emergency for both public health <br />and safety as well as community well-being. Certain critical infrastructure industries have a special responsibility in <br />these times to continue operations. <br />This guidance and accompanying list are intended to support State, Local, and industry partners in identifying the <br />critical infrastructure sectors and the essential workers needed to maintain the services and functions Americans <br />depend on daily and that need to be able to operate resiliently during the COVID-19 pandemic response. <br />This document gives guidance to State, local, tribal, and territorial jurisdictions and the private sector on defining <br />essential critical infrastructure workers. Promoting the ability of such workers to continue to work during periods of <br />community restriction, access management, social distancing, or closure orders/directives is crucial to community <br />resilience and continuity of essential functions. <br />CONSIDERATIONS FOR GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS <br />This list was developed in consultation with federal agency partners, industry experts, and State and local officials, <br />and is based on several key principles: <br />1.Response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic are locally executed, State managed, and federally supported <br />2.Everyone should follow guidance from the CDC, as well as State and local government officials, regarding <br />strategies to limit disease spread. <br />3.Workers should be encouraged to work remotely when possible and focus on core business activities. In- <br />person, non-mandatory activities should be delayed until the resumption of normal operations. <br />4.When continuous remote work is not possible, businesses should enlist strategies to reduce the likelihood of <br />spreading the disease. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, separating staff by off-setting shift <br />hours or days and/or social distancing. These steps can preserve the workforce and allow operations to <br />continue. <br />Linkedin.com/company/cybersecurity- <br />CONNECT WITH US <br />and-infrastructure-security-agency <br />www.cisa.gov <br /> <br />@CISAgov | @cyber | @uscert_gov <br />For more information, <br />email CISA.CAT@cisa.dhs.gov <br />Facebook.com/CISA <br /> <br />