{"id":7228,"date":"2020-07-08T22:24:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7228"},"modified":"2020-07-08T22:24:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T22:24:48","slug":"businesses-must-embrace-covid-safe-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/businesses-must-embrace-covid-safe-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSINESSES MUST EMBRACE COVID SAFE MEASURES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW businesses must follow the State Government\u2019s COVID safety warnings and public health orders or risk a penalty of up to $55,000.<br \/>\nMore than 117,500 COVID safety plans have been downloaded in less than a month but businesses also need to register to provide customers with confidence.<br \/>\nPremier Gladys Berejiklian said there are 10,500 registered COVID Safe businesses across NSW but she would like to see this number increase.<br \/>\n\u201cThanks to the hard work of the community, thousands of businesses and have been able to reopen their doors and welcome back customers,\u201d Ms Berejiklian said.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile communities embrace the easing of restrictions and we kick start the economy, safety must come first and businesses cannot be complacent.<br \/>\n\u201cWhether it\u2019s a caf\u00e9, construction business, cinema or sports club, all organisations must ensure the safety of staff and customers. There are no more excuses.\u201d<br \/>\nMinister for Customer Service Victor Dominello said help and assistance is available for businesses.<br \/>\n\u201cDownloading an industry specific safety plan and registering as COVID Safe is simple and can be done online. Service NSW can help with any questions,\u201d Mr Dominello said.<br \/>\n\u201cCustomers are encouraged to give feedback to businesses. Our focus in June was on educating industry; while our focus in July will be on compliance.\u201d<br \/>\nAny business found in breach of the public health orders will be held to account and could face a penalty of up to $55,000 or an on the spot fine of $5000.<br \/>\nBreach of orders made under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislation.nsw.gov.au\/#\/view\/act\/2010\/127\">Public Health Act 2010<\/a>\u00a0is a criminal offence and attracts heavy penalties. In the case of any business, the maximum penalty is $55,000 and a further $27,500 penalty may apply for each day the offence continues.<br \/>\nTo download a safety plan visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/covid-19\/covid-safe-businesses\">https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/covid-19\/covid-safe-businesses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW businesses must follow the State Government\u2019s COVID safety warnings and public health orders or risk a penalty of up to $55,000. More than 117,500 COVID safety plans have been downloaded in less than a month but businesses also need to register to provide customers with confidence. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said there are 10,500 registered &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/08\/businesses-must-embrace-covid-safe-measures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BUSINESSES MUST EMBRACE COVID SAFE MEASURES&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}