Are you an essential worker during the NSW lockdown? Photo: GETTY IMAGES/ CANVA.
Want to know if you're an essential worker? We found out from the NSW government who is considered an essential worker during the NSW lockdown. Get your answer in the list below.
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When premier Gladys Berejiklian and Chief Medical Officer Kerry Chant talk about who can leave home during a lockdown they reference 'essential worker' frequently. But who exactly is an essential worker?
The list is broken down into 14 industry sectors.
Administrative and support services
- "Click and collect" services
Agriculture
- Biosecurity and food safety personnel undertaking critical duties
Construction
A person who works on a construction site in Greater Sydney who has
- Had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine
- Had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at least 21 days ago
- Had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine with in the preceding 21 days and has been tested for COVID-19 within the preceding 72 hours (three days)
- A certified medical contraindication and has been tested for COVID-19 within the preceding 72 hours (three days)
Education
- Education and schooling
- Early childhood education and care
Electricity, gas, water and waste services
- Electricity services
- Operation of energy services
- Gas services
- Liquid fuels
- Water supply, sewerage, sanitation and drainage services
- Waste resource recovery services (including collection, treatment and disposal services)
Financial services
- Critical financial services and infrastructure
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Health care and social assistance
- A person who provides health services within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1997 or a registered health practitioner or a person who works for a registered health practitioner
- A person who provides ancillary or support services to the work of a 'health services provider' (including for example cleaners, cooks and security providers at hospitals.)
- A person employed or engaged by the Department of Communities and Justice to provide housing or homelessness services
- A community housing provider
- A person employed or engaged to provide services to persons with disability or vulnerable persons
- A person employed or engaged at a residential aged care facility
- Family violence and sexual assault services
- Veterinary services (including laboratory and diagnostic services and clinics)
- Animal welfare, care and accommodation services (excluding pet grooming unless there is an immediate animal welfare reason)
- End of life services including funeral, crematorium and cemetery services, mortuaries and morgues, spiritual or religious services connected to end of life services
Information media and telecommunications
- Telecommunications services, internet service providers, web search portals and data processing services
- Data specialists and technicians
- Data storage
- Journalism and media services for news and other critical public communication purposes
Manufacturing
- Production and manufacturing of food, beverages, groceries, cleaning and sanitary products
- Food and fibre processing and manufacturing
- Manufacture of food and beverage packaging
- Manufacture of coffins and caskets
- Manufacturing medical equipment, consumables and personal protective equipment
- Manufacturing of telecommunications equipment and infrastructure
- Manufacturing of firefighting equipment and supplies
- Manufacturing installation, maintenance or repair of items that are required for the operation of infrastructure, plant or equipment that is necessary to protect human health or safety
- Manufacture of building supplies to support construction
Parliament
- Functions or requirements of an Australian Parliament
Public administration and safety
- A member of the NSW Police Force, Fire and Rescue NSW, the NSW State Emergency Service, the NSW Rural Fire Service or the Ambulance Service of NSW or other emergency services worker
- A person who provides ancillary or support services to the work of an emergency services worker
- Fire protection and safety
- The administration of justice, including in relation to the operation of courts and tribunals, correctional centres and community corrections
- Critical legal services
- A person employed or engaged by or on behalf of the NSW or Commonwealth Government for the purposes of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Defence, national security and law enforcement
- A person employed or engaged by Services Australia
- A person employed or engaged by Services NSW
- The conduct of local government, State or Commonwealth elections
- Consular services
Retail trade
A person who works at
- Supermarkets and neighbourhood shops
- Shops that predominantly sell food or drinks
- Chemists and pharmacies
- Kiosks
- Shops that predominately sell any of the following in normal operations: Office supplies, Pet supplies, Newspapers, magazines and stationary, Alcohol, Maternity and baby supplies, Medical or pharmaceutical supplies
- Food and drink premises, but they have extra rules. Find out here.
- Cellar door premises but they have extra rules. Find out here
- Hardware and building supplies
- Landscaping material supplies
- Rural supplies
- Timber yards
- Garden centres and plant nurseries
- Vehicle hire premises, not including the premises at which vehicles are sold
- Industrial or commercial food retailing
- Fuel retailing
Transport, postal and warehousing
- Seaport and airport operations
- Freight, logistics, postal, courier or delivery services: Including food logistics, deliver and grocery fulfilment and delivery of building supplies to support construction, But not including home and office removals
- Export supply chain operators
- Distribution of food, groceries and sanitary products for sale by supermarkets, grocery shops or other shops that predominantly sell food or drinks
- Warehousing
- Road transport apart from taxi, rideshare and chauffeur services
- Train transport-including rail yards
- Water transport
- Air transport
- Pipeline and other transport
- Transport support services
- Vehicle repairs and critical maintenance including disinfection
- Towing services
- Critical safety operational staff for transport
Other services
- Essential services for the maintenance, safety and upkeep of public and recreational spaces
- Faith leaders broadcasting services and ceremonies at places of worship, or providing end of life care and support
- Professional, scientific and technical services at critical scientific facilities for critical scientific experiments, labs and collections
SOURCE: NSW Government
Grace Ryan
Deputy Editor
Deputy Editor at the Central Western Daily, Orange. You'll mostly find me tinkering in social media and newsletters. Working hard to get our stories in front of your eyes.
Deputy Editor at the Central Western Daily, Orange. You'll mostly find me tinkering in social media and newsletters. Working hard to get our stories in front of your eyes.
