Under new pandemic orders coming into place this Thursday, workers in key sectors who are already required to be fully vaccinated must get their third dose before being permitted to work onsite.
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This will apply to healthcare, aged care, disability, emergency services, correctional facility, quarantine accommodation and food distribution workers. Workplaces must sight and record proof of vaccination.
Workers eligible for a third dose on or before Wednesday 12 January will have until Saturday 12 February to get their vital third dose. Workers not yet eligible for a third dose will be required to get it within three months and two weeks of the deadline to receive their second mandatory dose.
This means residential aged care workers must receive their third dose by March 1, and health care workers by 29 March. Disability, quarantine accommodation, correctional facilities, emergency services, and food distribution workers will need to receive their third dose by 12 March.
Food distribution workers includes manufacturing, warehousing and transport (freight/port) workers involved in food distribution. Retail supermarket staff are not included in the mandate.
The Victorian Government made the changes given the current rate of COVID-19 hospitalisations and cases to further protect highest-risk health care and hospitality settings – and key workforces – from the risk of outbreaks and super-spreader events.
