The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alaska
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Public Health Disaster Emergency Declaration of Mar. 11, 2020 (recited); Health Mandate 016 ('Unless explicitly modified by this Mandate... prior Mandates remain in effect')
- Issued
- 2020-04-22 Apr. 22, 2020
- Effective
- Phase I Apr. 24, 2020 8:00 a.m.; Phase II May 8, 2020 (read as 2020-04-24)
- End
- 2020-05-22 (Phase III/IV: attachments reissued as 'Advisory Document[s]', Ex. AK-100) (read as 2020-05-22)
- In force
- Apr. 24, 2020 to May 22, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementWorkplace rulesOperating condition
- Addressees
- specified businesses: non-essential public-facing businesses not addressed by another attachment (Attachments E retail, F restaurants, G personal care, H non-public-facing)
- Character
- order operating condition
- Collection
- Standing duties: Alaska DUT-AK
Operative words
Non-Essential Businesses can resume operations if they meet all of the following requirements:... No more than 50 percent maximum building occupancy, as required by law, are permitted at any one time.... Employer must conduct pre-shift screening and maintain staff screening log.... Employer must establish a plan for employees getting ill and a return-to-work plan following CDC guidance
Penalty
As recited in Mandate 016: order to cease operations and/or civil fine of up to $1,000 per violation; AS 11.41.250 with AS 12.55.035 and 12.55.135 (Ex. AK-085)
What it required
Reopening was conditional ('can resume operations if they meet all of the following requirements'): 50 percent occupancy; household-only parties; a written COVID-19 Mitigation Plan; entryway signage that symptomatic persons 'may not enter'; 'Employer must provide handwashing capability or sanitizer'; 'Employer must provide for hourly touch-point sanitization'; 'Employer must provide training'; 'Employer must conduct pre-shift screening'; symptomatic employees 'may not report to work'; a 72-hour exclusion after fever; an illness and return-to-work plan 'following CDC guidance'; cleaning and disinfecting 'must be conducted in compliance with CDC protocols weekly' or a 72-hour weekly shutdown. Recorded exactly: six-foot spacing 'should be maintained'; reservations 'are encouraged'; cloth face coverings 'strongly encouraged'.
Retrieval noteThe CDC incorporation is by the verbs 'following CDC guidance' (the plan the employer 'must establish') and 'must be conducted in compliance with CDC protocols' (cleaning), with the CDC business-response URL printed in the attachment. AKOSH read the Phase I attachments' face-covering clause as 'Must' and the Phase II clause as 'Strongly recommended' (DUT-AK-010).