7 February 2022.
To ensure critical work and supply can continue in Queensland, an employer in a critical industry can create a list of critically essential roles.
In addition, a close contact who performs a critically essential role is also considered a critically essential worker.
If your employer decides you are a critically essential worker, you can leave quarantine to do your job, if you:
- have no COVID-19 symptoms
- are vaccinated with two doses of a vaccine and, if eligible, a booster shot.
This does not apply to someone who has COVID-19 – if you have COVID-19, you need to isolate for 7 days.
A critical industry includes:
- agriculture and fisheries production
A critically essential role:
- requires a person with particular skills; and
- must be performed in person at the workplace; and
- must continue to be performed to:
- prevent an immediate risk of death or serious injury to a person; or
- prevent serious harm (social, economic or physical) in the community.
For more information please visit: Critically Essential Worker requirements | Health and wellbeing | Queensland Government (www.qld.gov.au)