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Keeping your workplace safe, clean and healthy during COVID-19

Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Important

Download the Work health and safety plan for COVID-19 (PDF, 0.17 MB)

Template to assist businesses with their WHS COVID19 risk management plan. Existing WHS Plans covering COVID-19 risks and developed in consultation with staff are also acceptable.

Workers

  • You must take reasonable care for your own health and safety and the health and safety of others in your workplace.
  • You must co-operate with any reasonable policy or procedure that relates to health or safety at the workplace.

Employers

  • You must take action to protect workers and others at the workplace from the risk of exposure to COVID-19 so far as is reasonably practicable. This includes implementing the public health measures issued by health authorities including Queensland Health and the Australian Government Department of Health.
  • It is vital that you consult with and communicate with workers and their health and safety representatives (HSRs) on workplace measures to address COVID-19.

Put in place a plan to respond to COVID-19

  • Also put in place any directives issued by Queensland Health – this should include infection prevention and control policies and procedures, safe systems of work, how workers and their HSRs will be consulted, and how you will monitor and update your plan as public health information changes.
  • Consult with workers on the plan and display it clearly in the workplace. Consultation with workers, and, where applicable their representative, is required at each step of the risk management process.

Implement measures to keep workers safe and stop the spread of COVID-19

  • Implement and promote high order controls to complement hygiene practices (e.g. social distancing such as work from home where possible, create separate walkways through worksites, limit numbers of people in lunch or crib rooms or install barriers and screens).
  • Equally as important, implement good hygiene practices including hand hygiene and workplace cleaning – employers must provide sufficient cleaning and disinfection supplies and equipment, or engage a suitable cleaning service.
  • Use personal protective equipment (PPE) where necessary and in accordance with the relevant State and National guidelines.
  • Consider industry specific advice for higher risk workplaces or industries where the health of workers or people who are at the workplace are at higher risk, for example residential aged care, healthcare and correctional facilities.
  • Manage psycho-social risks for workers.
  • Communicate, train and supervise workers on workplace measures to address COVID-19.

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Last updated 23 June 2020