COVID-19
Site Provisions (note - some site provisions may not be applicable during the recovery / de-escalation phase).
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Offshore protocol
- Pre Mobilisation
- Inter and Intra-State Travel
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Site Provisions (note - some site provisions may not be applicable during the recovery / de-escalation phase).
- Dedicated, trained COVID-19 managers on worksites
- COVID testing
- Establishment of optimum safe manning levels
- Daily workforce testing regimes may be undertaken
- Workforce physical distancing and staggered messing practices are implemented and enforced
- Workforce information and education programs are initiated
- HSER’s and company supervisors used as focal point for information dissemination
- Support the mental health and wellbeing of employees
- Government biosecurity and public health advice to remote communities / at risk populations needs to be followed
- All facility personnel to minimise contact with members of the broader local community
- Critical suppliers and contractors
- Marine Service
- Isolation (note – low rates of community transmission may mean resident workforces scale back self-isolation / quarantine requirements)
- Evacuation
- Infection Control (Clean up)
- Managing inspector access to offshore petroleum facilities and places
- Housekeeping - Office based roles & visitors
- Onshore protocol
Workforce information and education programs are initiated
Principal Requirements
(suggested performance expectations for this part of the protocol)
27. Frequent workplace updates provided on infection controls and any changes to infection control practices provided.
28. Information and training on personal, living space and workspace hygiene provided.
29. Members of the workforce encouraged to practise good hand hygiene and good sneeze/cough hygiene.
30. Extensive distribution of hand sanitizers wherever available and backed with workplace education campaign.
31. Workforce trained and instructed in the appropriate use of infection control PPE.
Guidance
(suggestions for practices to meet performance expectations)
- Extensive workplace hygiene practices – hand washing, physical distancing, ban on non-essential travel and meetings, physical separation of teams and shift change over.
- Avoid touching the face (mouth, eyes and nose) with hands.
- Wash hands often with soap and water, or use alcohol-based sanitiser before and after eating as well as after attending the toilet.
- Distribution of posters and other educational material in the workplace on COVID-19 controls.
Better Practice Exemplars
(references to describe practices that, if utilised across the industry, will deliver performance expectations)
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Links
(links to other websites that are relevant to this part of the protocol)
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