COVIDSafe requirements for visitors and volunteers

Visitors and volunteers performing work on school sites (both inside and outdoors) are required to have received three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by 25 February 2022 if they became fully vaccinated on or before 25 October 2021. For those that became fully vaccinated after 25 October 2021, the deadline is 15 March 2022, or have a valid medical exception. 

This requirement applies to:

• a person contracted to work at an education facility and who will or may be in close proximity to children, students or staff, whether or not engaged by the education operator including casual relief teachers, NDIS providers and auditors (but does not include delivery personnel).
• Department staff who attend an education facility (such as allied health personnel)
• Staff of any other entity who attends an education facility
• Volunteers that attend and education facility and that work in close proximity to children, students or staff (including parent helpers)
• Students on placements at an education facility.

Schools must advise visitors and volunteers they must adhere to COVIDSafe requirements: physical distancing, face mask requirements, cough etiquette, and good hand hygiene.

More information about the collection of vaccination information from visitors and volunteers on school sites is available at COVID-19 Vaccinations – Visitors and Volunteers  on School Sites : Policy | education.vic.gov.au, including a template register that schools can use for recording vaccination information during visitor and volunteer sign-in.