Nationwide, cities and counties are issuing mandatory stay-at-home orders for Americans, but what about those workers in the vegetation management and utility industry who can't simply work from home?
On March 16, President Trump issued the updated Coronavirus Guidance for America. In turn, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) identified those workers in critical infrastructure industries who are essential to continued infrastructure viability. For the complete list from the CISA click here.
- Workers who maintain, ensure, or restore the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power, including call centers, utility workers, reliability engineers and fleet maintenance technicians
- Workers needed for safe and secure operations at nuclear generation
- Workers at generation, transmission and electric blackstart facilities
- Workers at Reliability Coordinator (RC), Balancing Authorities (BA), and primary and backup Control Centers (CC), including but not limited to independent system operators, regional transmission organizations, and balancing authorities
- Mutual assistance personnel
- IT and OT technology staff – for EMS (Energy Management Systems) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and utility data centers; Cybersecurity engineers; cybersecurity risk management
- Vegetation management crews and traffic workers who support
- Environmental remediation/monitoring technicians
- Instrumentation, protection, and control technicians
How are you protecting your vegetation management crews and line workers as they continue to work in the field? Email Field Editor Amy Fischbach with your stories and photos.
