Coronavirus: Metro Melbourne lockdown extended

12 August 2021

The seven-day snap lockdown has been extended for metropolitan Melbourne until Thursday, 19 August 2021 11:59pm.

Accordingly, there remain five reasons to leave home:

• getting necessary goods or services
• care or other compassionate reasons
• exercise (up to two hours per day)
• authorised work and permitted education if it can’t be done from home
• to get vaccinated.

The limitation on exercise and shopping will be five kilometres from home – or the closest location (if not within the five-kilometre radius).

The following automotive industry businesses can continue to operate through this extended lockdown in metropolitan Melbourne as authorised providers and workers:

• Petrol stations, including a petrol station that sells groceries
• Vehicle and mechanical repair services
• Contactless ‘click and collect/deliver’ services
• Emergency repair workers
• Roadside assistance services
• Ancillary and support businesses, where necessary for the operations of an authorised provider
• Administrative services provided by an employer to enable its employees to work from home
• Truck stops and roadhouses, but not the provision of seated dining or shower facilities to persons who are not transport, freight or logistics drivers.

COVIDSafe Plans should be reviewed to ensure they remain current and that cleaning, signage, record-keeping and other applicable requirements are being adhered to and communicated with all relevant staff. Members can contact the VACC OHSE Unit for any further information or assistance, including in relation to their COVIDSafe Plan obligations.

For more information, please refer to a recent member Bulletin.

VACC Industrial Relations
P: 03 9829 1123
E: ir@vacc.com.au

VACC OHSE
P: 03 9829 1265
E: ohs@vacc.com.au