Priority access vaccination hub plan for FIFO workers

The mining industry is planning to accelerate up the vaccination rollout for its flit-in flit-out (FIFO) workers with a hub at Brisbane Airport.

As the Queensland authorities’s contemporary mass vaccination sanatorium opening at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre at the present time, COVID-19 vaccines possess been prioritised for the sphere.

Whereas the Queensland Assets Council has been encouraging its workers to ascertain in to the authorities’s program, chief executive Ian McFarlane acknowledged he want to ogle the rollout more streamlined and tailor-made to the industry.

“Or not it is now imperative on the industry to procure as moderately a few these FIFO workers vaccinated as quickly as doubtless.”

The industry role up a assorted allotment of Brisbane Airport for the temperature-attempting out of FIFO workers originally of the pandemic.

“We’re aloof working by the critical parts around whether or not that facility is suitable or if now we have to procure one more one,” Mr McFarlane acknowledged.

Confusion on authorities net sites

The prioritisation of mine workers in the vaccine rollout has been inflicting some confusion on the Queensland authorities’s COVID-19 net sites.

Mr McFarlane acknowledged a tumble down menu labelled “flit-in flit-out and interstate freight workers” used to be conventional to quilt all travelling mine workers.

“That tumble-down box will likely be amended in the following couple of days but, at the 2d, a FIFO or DIDO employee can register to be prioritised for a COVID-19 jab.”

Provide of the vaccine has been a tell for the industry, which has been providing the federal authorities relief to distribute and administer vaccinations for the reason that rollout began.

Mr McFarlane acknowledged it remained a challenge to setup of a vaccination hub.

“We are attending to that level now, by the prioritisation of flit-in flit-out workers and power-in power-out workers.”

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