COVID-19 Safe Workplaces Framework

Last Updated:22 Dec 2020 8:39pm

Please check this page and these links regularly for updates

The Tasmanian Government’s COVID-19 Safe Workplaces Framework supports workplaces as they re-open or expand their business activities during the pandemic, while ensuring the health and safety of all Tasmanians.

The Framework encompasses Safe Workplaces Guidelines and minimum standards.

To comply with the minimum standards, you should complete a safety plan and/or checklist. The Safe Workplace Guidelines will help you complete your safety plan/checklist.

COVID-19 Safe Workplace Guidelines

The Government has worked with stakeholders to develop industry specific guidelines to provide examples of the sorts of measures to suit businesses in each sector. Find the practical guidance tailored to your industry.

COVID-19 Safe Workplace Guidelines

COVID-19 Safety Plan templates and checklist

A COVID Safety Plan is a great way for businesses to document measures and show how they are keeping their customers, their workers and the community safe.

WorkSafe Tasmania has also developed templates to help small and medium businesses to prepare their COVID Safety Plans.

Keep your completed plans/checklist at your workplace: you do not need to submit them to WorkSafe (see How to comply below).

Please save this to your computer before you start to complete it, then you can go back to it as you need to. You can also print and complete them by hand if you prefer.

For large businesses (employing 200 plus people):

You may need to create a bespoke plan for your operations. Use the checklist and safety plan templates above as guiding documents.

For event organisers:

COVID-19 Safety Plan Events Template (PDF, 350.3 KB)

All businesses may find useful the My Business's COVIDSafe Plan: National COVID-19 Co-ordination Commission (external link) which also includes business planning.

Mandatory contact tracing requirements

Recording patron details to support contact tracing is now mandatory for a wide range of Tasmanian venues and events.

If you run an event or business where people are spending more than 15 minutes in close proximity to each other, you are likely to be legally obliged to collect patron details.

The name, phone number and date and time of entry must be recorded for individuals or a representative of a group.

These contact details will help Public Health rapidly identify possible contacts if a person at the venue later tests positive to COVID-19. The details may also help identify the source of a person’s infection.

See the Current Restrictions webpage at coronavirus.tas.gov.au (external link) for:

the full list of businesses that must collect contact details
full details about contact tracing.

Collecting details

There is no mandatory method for collecting or storing the details. Venue operators can use a paper-based or electronic system, as long as they adequately protect the privacy of patrons and can make the details available for 28 days after entry as required.

Check In TAS app

Check In Tas is a free Tasmanian Government app to help venues record and store contact details.

Patrons can check-in to venues and have their data stored securely with the Tasmanian Department of Health, so it is available for use if there is a case but also automatically destroyed after 28 days.

Businesses: To register a venue, visit www.coronavirus.tas.gov.au (external link), call the Public Health Hotline on 1800 671 738 or email check.in.tas@health.tas.gov.au (external link)

Patrons: Download the app via Google Play Store (external link) and Apple App Store (external link)