Transport Operators
Drivers of land transport vehicles (e.g. trucks, trains) should vacate their cabs and the like, with replacement staff taking over when boundaries are reached. Hard surfaces in cabs should be wiped to a clean and dry condition by drivers vacating cabs, and again by the replacement drivers. Cab doors should be left open in the intervening period to allow maximum ventilation. It is the responsibility of the employer to ensure that drivers are appropriately trained.
In other situations, i.e. where drivers are to transit through territory where the pandemic is active, it is proposed that entry be permitted subject to the following tests and conditions.
Thresholds
- necessity that boundary be crossed to transport goods that are important for the continued good performance of commerce or society in general
Conditions
- the driver is
- aware of the risks involved
- aware of places and situations to be avoided
- when travelling within an affected area, equipped with adequate PPEs and similar supplies and aware of how to use them
Note: it should be the responsibility of the employer to ensure that staff likely to be required to make boundary crossings are adequately aware of the risks and how to manage them. Attachment 1 sets out some guidelines that may help.
- the person reports to the local Public Heath Service after re-entering the area where travel originated
- stoppages are kept to a minimum
- the person complies with any other reasonable requirements imposed by health authorities at the time
Ministry of Economic Development
February 2008
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