Lockdown Update - Essential & MTA WA Services

29 June 2021|Member Alert, News

WHAT IS ESSENTIAL?

Source: https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/covid-communications/covid-19-coronavirus-essential-workers

Based on health advice, a lockdown has been introduced for the Perth metropolitan area and Peel region starting 12.01am Tuesday, 29 June 2021 until 12.01am on Saturday, 3 July 2021.

People are required to stay at home unless they undertake duties as an essential worker who provide either an essential health service or essential goods and services.

Details are available on this page on what is an essential worker, what are essential health services and essential goods and services.

Essential goods providers

Essential providers may open, and employees who cannot perform their duties remotely may attend work in person in the following areas:

  • Supermarket, grocery, butcher, fruit and vegetable store or fishmonger
  • Restaurant, pub, bar or café for takeaway or delivery only
  • Indoor or outdoor market, but only to obtain groceries or fresh food and not to obtain food and beverages prepared on site
  • Bottle shop
  • Financial institution
  • Consular and diplomatic services
  • Court, tribunal or commission services
  • Post office
  • Newsagent
  • Pharmacy
  • Hardware store
  • Petrol station
  • Vehicle and mechanical repair services
  • Pet store or veterinary clinic
  • Child care or family day care provider
  • Urgent services necessary for the health and safety of any person, animal or premises.

Essential worker

Any person whose work is critical to the continued operation of the following services, and who cannot practicably work from home, may attend work in person.

  • Essential provider
  • Essential health services
  • Funerary or mortuary services or related activities
  • Bakeries
  • Emergency services including SES, fire-fighting, paramedical, ambulance, medial retrieval including RFDS, police, military and defence
  • Essential infrastructure and services without which the safety, health or welfare of the community or a section of the community would be endangered
  • Member of the public service of WA who is critical to or involved in the COVID response
  • Roadside assistance
  • Government or local government services
  • Domestic and commercial waste and resource recovery
  • Journalist and media services
  • Factory or facility that is not able to shut down without causing damage or loss to the plant and equipment
  • Mining for the purpose of critical maintenance and to avoid significant losses (limitation on FIFO mobilisation from affected area)
  • Building, maintenance or construction services
  • Administrative services provided by an employer to enable its employees to work from home
  • Organisations that provide urgent services necessary for the health and safety of any person, animal or premises
  • Public transport including taxis, rideshare and other public passenger services.
  • Air transport
  • Port operations
  • Transport, freight or logistics driver
  • Blood bank
  • Care services for people with particular needs
  • Truck stops and roadhouses
  • Heavy vehicle regulator
  • Production and distribution of food and groceries, liquor, medical and pharmaceutical products
  • Retail for the purposes of fulfilling click-and-collect or click-and-deliver orders.
  • Commercial operations that supply goods or services for the implementation of measures to limit the spread of COVID-19
  • Teachers and essential school/boarding school staff
  • Primary industries to the extent necessary to ensure supply of food to, and care of, animals and maintenance of crops.

Essential health services provider

Any provider of the following services may attend work in person:

  • Emergency surgery, procedures, and medical consulting for investigation, diagnosis, and management of conditions where failure to do so expediently and safely would lead to loss of life, limb, or permanent disability
  • Non-emergency but urgent surgery, procedures and medical consulting as above
  • Any health services provided in a hospital
  • Any health services provided by a GP
  • Any health services at a hospital radiology service other than routine screening
  • Procedures and surgical treatments by dentists in public health care centres for obvious facial swelling, facial trauma
  • Procedures to complete IVF treatment where a patient has commenced, any procedure for the preservation of eggs for future IFG
  • Surgical termination of pregnancy
  • Drug and alcohol services

Allied health services as essential workers in hospitals and residential care; private practice including telehealth, students etc

Page reviewed 29 June 2021