COVIDSafe Update: Recent changes to the Public Health Order and household contact isolation requirements

The Transport COVID-19 Taskforce has been working with our Government partners, including NSW Health, on recent changes to the Public Health Order and household contact isolation requirements.

A number of guidelines have been set for household contacts to follow in the seven days from the date from the date that any person who you reside with last tested positive for COVID-19. Anyone that is a household contact needs to do the following:

  • Advise your manager that you are household contact
  • If you can work from home, you must work from home
  • If you cannot work from home, you do not have any symptoms, and you can access the

Transport for NSW RAT supply at your workplace, you can return to work provided you:

  • Undertake a Transport supplied Rapid Antigen Test on each work day
  • Wear a face mask in indoor areas
  • Continue to monitor for symptoms for 14 days

You will need to talk to your direct manager and get approval before coming back into the workplace.

While we work on updating the self-isolation report tool to allow managers to record when a household contact returns to the workplace, managers will need to record the details of any household contact approved to return to the workplace here.

This means household contacts who can wear a mask and access the Transport for NSW RAT supply at their usual workplace can return to work.

Where you cannot work from home and cannot access RATs to return to the workplace, you can remain at home and will be able to access special leave for the isolation period.

As always, if you do develop symptoms, you must self-isolate and get tested for COVID-19.

Our COVIDSafe measures, including extra cleaning and capacity limits, will continue throughout all Transport workplaces to help keep you and your team COVID safe.

Rapid Antigen Test supply

For those roles that cannot work from home we will be supplying Rapid Antigen Tests to help our frontline workforce comply with the Public Health Order throughout May.

These tests will be available at centralised frontline staff workplaces. It is important that staff do not use privately sourced RAT kits to return to the workplace.

We are also introducing RAT vending machines, which will be rolled out to 8 high use locations, including:

  • Elizabeth Street, Sydney
  • 110 George Street, Sydney
  • Macquarie Park
  • Wollongong
  • Grafton
  • Bega
  • Dubbo
  • Waratah

Test packs will also be made available through the Sydney Trains PPE vending machines throughout May.

Read the FAQs for more information on the changes to self-isolation for close contacts and coming back into the workplace.