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Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, for the year ended December 31, 2020, should be carefully considered, together with the other information contained or incorporated by reference in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in our other filings with the SEC in connection with evaluating Chesapeake Utilities, our business and the forward-looking statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
−Removed: A security breach disrupting our operating systems and facilities or exposing confidential information may adversely affect our reputation, disrupt our operations and increase our costs.
−Removed: The cybersecurity risks associated with the protection of our infrastructure and facilities is evolving and increasingly complex.
−Removed: We continue to heavily rely on technological tools that support our business operations and corporate functions while enhancing our security.
−Removed: There are various risks associated with our information technology infrastructure, including hardware and software failure, communications failure, data distortion or destruction, unauthorized access to data, misuse of proprietary or confidential data, unauthorized control through electronic means, cyber-attacks, cyber-terrorism, data breaches, programming mistakes, and other inadvertent errors or deliberate human acts.
−Removed: Further, the U.S.
−Removed: government has issued public warnings that indicate energy assets might be specific targets of cybersecurity threats by foreign sources.
−Removed: The failure of, or security breaches related to, our information technology infrastructure, could lead to system disruptions or cause facility shutdowns.
−Removed: Any such failure, attack, or security breach could adversely impact our ability to safely and reliably deliver services to our customers through our transmission, distribution, and generation systems, subject to us to reputational and other harm, and subject us to legal and regulatory proceedings and claims and demands from third parties, any of which could adversely affect our business, our earnings, results of operation and financial condition.
−Removed: In addition, the protection of customer, employee and Company data is crucial to our operational security.
−Removed: A breach or breakdown of our systems that results in the unauthorized release of individually identifiable customer or other sensitive data could have an adverse effect on our reputation, results of operations and financial condition and could also materially increase our costs of maintaining our system and protecting it against future breakdowns or breaches.
−Removed: We take reasonable precautions to safeguard our information systems from cyber-attacks and security breaches;
−Removed: however, there is no guarantee that the procedures implemented to protect against unauthorized access to our information systems are adequate to safeguard against all attacks and breaches.
−Removed: We also cannot assure that any redundancies built into our networks and technology, or the procedures we have implemented to protect against cyber-attacks and other unauthorized access to secured data, are adequate to safeguard against all failures of technology or security breaches.
+Added: Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of employees or testing of employees could impact our workforce and have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
+Added: On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a proposed new rule requiring all employers with at least 100 employees to require that their employees be fully vaccinated or tested weekly.
+Added: Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) is currently drafting an emergency regulation (the “OSHA Regulation”) to carry out this mandate, which is expected to take effect in the coming weeks.
+Added: At this time, it is unclear, among other things, if the OSHA Regulation will apply to all employees or only to certain employees, or how compliance will be documented.
+Added: In addition, on September 9, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order (the “Executive Order”) requiring all employers with U.S.
+Added: Government contracts to ensure that their U.S.-based employees, contractors, and subcontractors, that work on or in support of U.S.
+Added: Government contracts, are fully vaccinated by December 8, 2021.
+Added: At this time, it is not possible to predict with certainty the nature and extent to which we will be subject to the OSHA Regulation or Executive Order, or impact that the OSHA Regulation or Executive Order will have on us or on our workforce.
+Added: Additional vaccine mandates may be announced in other jurisdictions in which we operate, or by governmental agencies with which we provide services.
+Added: Implementation of these requirements by us may result in employee attrition, including attrition of critically skilled labor, absenteeism within our skilled labor force, challenges securing future labor needs, inefficiencies connected to employee turnover, and costs associated with implementation and on-going compliance, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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