South Australia Creates a COVID-safe Plan to Reopen Hospitality Businesses

In South Australia, keeping the safety of people at the top of their priority list amid COVID-19, the legal authorities want each business to reopen in a COVID-safe environment.

For that, the government is offering a process to the business owners through which they can create a COVID-safe environment in their work premises and keep their staff safe and healthy.

The process is nothing but a simple form, which once you fill, creates a COVID-proof plan for your business. Your completed form is your plan. No matter in which industry you work, the form will present the best safety guidelines for your workplace.

Which Businesses Are Required to Create a COVID-safe Plan?

If your business was earlier directed to close or was self-closed due to the pandemic, then you must complete filling the form to generate safety guidelines for your business before you reopen, as per the South Australian government.

If your business was permitted to reopen during stage one of the state’s roadmap to recovery, then you must create the safety plan before 1st June.

In both the above case, if business owners do not create the plan, and not have this avail at their workplace, or do not follow the legal guidelines, then they would be fined up to $5,000.

Completing and implementing your plan for a COVID-safe environment will keep your staff and customers safe and eventually South Australia.

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Get Started with These Steps to Create Your COVID-safe Plan:

● First of all, traverse through the website www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au. to fetch the important information and useful guidelines by government authorities for a COVID safe environment.

● Go to the link and fill in all the required details. If your business is segregated into multiple premises, then you are required to fill the individual form for each venue.

● Once done creating the plan, bring in your staff, contractors, suppliers to educate and discuss the plan to make them aware of their roles and responsibilities to form a COVID-safe surrounding.

● Execute the plan you have agreed to as efficiently as you can. Remember, these guidelines are an obligation, you need to follow and execute them, if you don’t, you would be charged with a fine.

● Review your plan periodically and frequently to make favourable changes whenever and wherever required amid Coronavirus.

● COVID-19 is a rapidly changing situation, and the SA government reacts to this in stages to ease certain restrictions.

● Last but not least, print out your plan and make it available at your premises for your employees and customers to keep them safe.

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