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ARTICLE · 21 MAY 2020

COVID-19 - Construction - Working at alert level 3 - Non-essential construction work

Cavell Leitch
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There are new construction standards and protocols to ensure that the health and safety risks of Covid-19 are mitigated.

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The Government has recently announced that Covid-19 alert level 3 will allow non-essential construction work to resume. This is good news for the industry, however there are new rules in place to ensure the health and safety risks of Covid-19 are mitigated. MBIE in consultation with industry bodies have produced the following documents:

  1. Covid-19 Construction Standard v1.1;
  2. New Zealand Covid-19 Health and Safety Protocols for NZ Residential Construction Sites; and
  3. New Zealand Covid-19 Health and Safety Protocols for Vertical (commercial) and Horizontal (civil) Sites.
These documents can be downloaded here.

It's important these rules are complied with by the entire industry for a few main reasons:

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