List of essential workplaces

Read the list of essential workplaces in response to COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus)

• Supply chains
• Retail and wholesaling
• Food services and accommodations
• Institutional, residential, commercial and industrial maintenance
• Telecommunications and IT infrastructure/service providers
• Transportation
• Manufacturing and production
• Agriculture and food production
• Construction
• Financial activities
• Resources
• Environmental services
• Utilities and community services
• Communications industries
• Research
• Health care and seniors care and social services
• Justice sector
• Other businesses
• Business regulators and inspectors

Priority services and activities

• Information for businesses and essential services
• Priority health care services
• Public security services
• Priority government services
• Maintenance and operation of strategic infrastructure
• Priority manufacturing activities
• Priority stores
• Media and telecommunications
• Banking and financial services
• Construction sector
• Building maintenance services
• Priority transportation and logistics services

Essential and Non-Essential Services: COVID-19

Anyone who must access essential services is to practice safe social distancing and good hand hygiene. If you feel unwell stay at home. Only one person per household should be going out to get groceries or supplies from essential services.

Employers should:

• lead and practice safe social distancing with staff
• ensure anyone who is ill or self-isolating not report to work

Essential services

“Essential services” means services that the interruption of which would endanger the life, health or personal safety of the whole or part of the population.

Non-essential services

“Non-essential services” means services not providing food supplies, health, financial support or utilities and when not offered to the public will not impact life, health or personal safety.

At this time Alberta is not limiting any business operations therefore, there is no list of essential services.

The Alberta government has restricted mass gatherings and encouraged companies to visit these websites for further details:

Restrictions for mass gatherings

COVID-19 info for Albertans

List of essential services in B.C. during COVID-19 pandemic

List of essential services in Saskatchewan during COVID-19 pandemic

RDC members qualify in one or more activities under items 1(a), 1(b), 4, 14, 18, 22, 23, 37, 39, and 40 of the Schedule.

Public Health Orders April 1, 2020