COVID-19 Case and Outbreak Management

Last Updated: 23 Feb 2022 3:50pm
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All businesses and organisations should have a COVID-19 Safety Plan that captures how your business or organisation complies with the minimum standards for managing the risks of COVID-19, to keep staff and other people within the setting safe. COVID-19 Safety Plans should be reviewed regularly.

An Outbreak Management Plan captures how your business or organisation will prepare for and respond to a confirmed case or cases of COVID-19 in your workplace or setting.

Prepare for COVID-19 cases

COVID-19 Safety Plans and Case and Outbreak Management Plans capture how your business or organisation meets minimum safety standards and will respond to a confirmed case of COVID-19 in your workplace or setting.

Respond to COVID-19 cases

Your response to a confirmed COVID-19 case linked to your business or organisation will aim to protect other people and continue your normal activities as safely and soon as possible.

COVID-19 Safety plans

All workplaces should have a COVID-19 Safety Plan that complies with minimum COVID-19 standards

Case and outbreak management plans

A Case and Outbreak Management Plan captures your organisation’s roles and responsibilities in preparing for and responding to a confirmed case/s of COVID-19 in your workplace or setting

Cleaning and disinfection after a case

Following a confirmed case of COVID-19, thorough cleaning and disinfection of contaminated areas is needed as per your COVID-19 Safety Plan, to remove the virus from surfaces

High-risk settings

Advice for planning for a case or outbreak in a high-risk setting

Framework for critical industries

A contingency framework is in place to enable workplaces, identified as essential for the supply of critical goods and services to the community, to register for essential staff to be exempt from the quarantine requirement for close contacts

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