All the jobs that need the jab under the NT government’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate

The Northern Territory government’s vaccination mandate comes into effect on November 13. Here’s the list of workforces the chief health officer has outlined in the Covid-19 Directions (No. 55).

FROM November 13 the NT government’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate come into effect for people working in environments where they interact with the public.

For the period starting November 13, 2021 and ending December 24, 2021, anyone who hasn’t received their first dose of an approved vaccine must not attend their workplace.

From December 25, anyone who hasn’t received two doses of the vaccine must not attend their workplace.

A person with an approved Covid-19 vaccine exemption is allowed to attend work.

Does your job come under the mandate? Here’s the list of workforces the chief health officer has outlined in the Covid-19 Directions (No. 55).

The Covid-19 vaccine mandate applies to the following workers:

– A worker who, during the course of work, is likely to come into contact with a vulnerable person;

– A worker who is at risk of infection with COVID-19 because the worker, during the course of work, is likely to come into contact with a person or thing that poses a risk of infection;

– A worker whose workplace poses a high risk of infection with COVID-19;

– A worker who performs work that is necessary for the operation or maintenance of essential infrastructure or essential logistics in the Territory.

The mandate specifically applies to the following:

– Workers who work with children, such as teachers, child care workers, tutors, gym coaches and swimming instructors;

– Workers who work with disabled persons, elderly persons or other persons vulnerable to infection with COVID-19, such as legal service providers, disability care workers and personal carers;

– Workers who directly face customers or patients in health care and ancillary health care services;

– Workers who work in a community consisting of mostly Aboriginal people;

– Workers who provide community services;

– Workers who directly face customers in retail services, financial or hospitality industries and other service industries.

The mandate applies to workers in places likely to come into contact with a person or thing that poses a risk of infection, including:

– Health care workers in hospitals and emergency departments;

– Police and emergency service workers;

– Workers in quarantine facilities or other quarantine places;

– Border control workers;

– Workers at other places to which symptomatic people may go such as medical clinics, respiratory clinics and pharmacies.

The mandate applies to people who work in these places that pose a high risk of infection from Covid, including:

– Correction and detention facilities;

– Shelters for persons experiencing homelessness or other forms of adversity;

– Mining sites;

– Food processing and distribution facilities;

– Cold storage facilities and abattoirs;

– Cruise vessels.

The mandate applies to people who work in essential infrastructure or essential logistics, including:

– Electricity generation facilities, electricity networks and electrical installations;

– Liquid natural gas and other gas facilities;

– Water supply and distribution infrastructure;

– Sewerage treatment facilities;

– Telecommunications systems;

– Roads;

– Covid-19 emergency operations centre.

A vulnerable person is considered to be the following:

– A person under 12 years of age;

– A person who cannot be vaccinated with an approved COVID-19 vaccine due to a contraindication to all approved COVID-19 vaccines;

– A First Nations person;

– A person is at risk of severe illness from COVID-19 for medical reasons, such as being on immune suppressive therapy after an organ transplant or having chronic kidney, heart, liver or lung disease.