COVID-19 Webinar #5 - Changes to the public health direction from 4 February 2022
Thursday 24 February 2022 | 10am - 11am
Did you know the COVID-19 vaccination Direction has changed for a third time in just three months?
The Workers in a healthcare setting (COVID-19 vaccination requirements) Direction (Direction) (No. 1) took effect from 10 November 2021. It has since been revoked and replaced by Direction “(No. 2)” which took effect from 16 December 2022; and on 4 February Direction (No. 2) was revoked and replaced a third time by a third Direction, same name but numbered “(No. 3)”.
We recommend joining us in this webinar if you are an:
- employer – so you can know what you can and cannot reasonably require of persons entering your private practices, whether they are staff members or otherwise; or
- employed doctor or doctor under a service agreement – to understand what your personal duties are to comply with the Direction.
For those who attended our COVID-19 Webinar#4 on November 2022, this webinar will update you as to your current duties under the Direction. We will cover two key changes including the:
- narrowing of the scope of the public health direction; and
- change to requirements for staff members with medical contraindications and COVID-19 testing requirements.
Further, in this webinar we will clearly explain:
- Who qualifies as a 'worker'' under the Direction?
- What the term 'healthcare setting'' means as referenced in the Direction? In other words, what practice settings are covered by the Direction.
- What the COVID-19 vaccination requirements are, including what, when and how an employee is to be vaccinated against COVID-19?
- What evidence workers must provide to the employer of their compliance with the COVID-19 vaccination?
- The role of risks assessments in assessing refusals by workers to be vaccinated if the worker has a medical contraindication?
- What exceptions apply to the requirement that the worker receive a COVID-19 vaccination?
- What additional measures unvaccinated “workers in healthcare” must take, in order to be permitted to work?
- What records you, as an employer, must hold, with respect to unvaccinated workers in healthcare?
- What measures the Direction permits employers to take, to have an unvaccinated worker lawfully work during a critical workforce shortage?
- What the consequences (both pecuniary and criminal) are for both a doctor and an employer, of not complying with this Direction?
If you have any questions, please send them through to workplacerelations@amaq.com.au
This webinar is complimentary for AMA Queensland members.