Queensland Government - Work Health and Safety Plan for COVID-19

• Use this template to record how you and your workers will stay safe at work during the COVID-19 pandemic. This
  information will help your workers and others know exactly what to do and expect.
  
  Refer to our guide, Work health and safety during COVID-19 to assist in completing your plan.
  
  You need to consult with your staff and their representatives to develop responses to the questions below—and
  other people who are relevant to reopening your business.
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic is an evolving situation—review your plan regularly and make changes as required.
  
  You do not need to send this plan to Workplace Health and Safety Queensland. However, you must complete and
  maintain your plan and make it available to our inspectors or other Queensland Government officials if they ask for it

• Conducted on

  Date

• Prepared by

• Location
  Address

Business details

• Business name

• Division/group

• Date completed

  Date

• Date distributed

  Date

• Revision date

  Date

• Manager approval

  Date

• Worker representative consultation

  Date

• Manager’s name:

  Date

• Worker representative’s name:

  Date

• What checks and preparation have you done to know your business can re-open?

• - Consider: advice on www.Covid19.gov.au, checked condition of equipment and facilities, condition of perishable items, staff training
  - Example: Restart the line - carry out restart procedure and clean all touch surfaces.
  - Who is responsible: Engineering supervisor, manager, administrator, maintenance staff

• How will your business comply with social distancing requirements?

• - Consider: advice on www.Covid19.gov.au, checked condition of equipment and facilities, condition of perishable items, staff training
  - Example: Restart the line - carry out restart procedure and clean all touch surfaces.
  - Who is responsible: Engineering supervisor, manager, administrator, maintenance staff

• What extra measures is your business doing to keep customers/ clients safe? (For example, cafes are now required to keep contact information of customers dining in.)

• - Consider: advice on www.Covid19.gov.au, checked condition of equipment and facilities, condition of perishable items, staff training
  - Example: Restart the line - carry out restart procedure and clean all touch surfaces.
  - Who is responsible: Engineering supervisor, manager, administrator, maintenance staff

• What measures have you put in place to keep workers safe?

• - Consider: advice on www.Covid19.gov.au, checked condition of equipment and facilities, condition of perishable items, staff training
  - Example: Restart the line - carry out restart procedure and clean all touch surfaces.
  - Who is responsible: Engineering supervisor, manager, administrator, maintenance staff

• How is your business complying with hygiene and cleaning requirements?

• - Consider: Instruction on how to practice good hygiene, maintaining quantities of soap for hand washing and detergent for cleaning, providing hand washing facilities for customers and patrons, reducing shared equipment and tools, ensuring frequently touched areas and surfaces are cleaned regularly with detergent, ensuring any surfaces used by clients/customers are cleaned between use, ensuring routine cleaning carried out in all areas of the workplace.

• - Example: Hand washing facilities or alcohol-based hand sanitiser at entry and exit points and in common rooms/lunchrooms, signs posted regarding practicing of proper hygiene and hand washing, scheduling appointments/bookings to allow for sufficient cleaning time

• - Who is responsible: Facilities manager to review procedures and order supplies, cleaners to use the new supplies and follow new cleaning procedures

• How is your business complying with hygiene and cleaning requirements?

• - Consider: Contact free deliveries, removing paperwork from delivery interactions, keeping contact details of all visitors to assist with contact tracing.
  - Example: Arrange drop off point for deliveries, have contractors or visitors sign in or text their contact details
  - Who is responsible: Team leaders

• How is your business reviewing and monitoring work health and safety compliance?

• - Consider: review processes to ensure the measures in place are effective, review existing critical risks and whether work practice changes will affect current risk management, are any new critical risks introduced due to changes in worker numbers, work practices, what new risk controls are required?
  - Example: Schedule weekly review of processes, consult with staff on effectiveness
  - Who is responsible: Team leaders

• Notes

• Completed by (Name and Signature)

  Sign