Note: Your progress in watching these videos WILL NOT be tracked. These training videos are the same videos you will experience when you take the full Coronavirus COVID-19 for Healthcare Workers Level 2 (VTQ) program. You may begin the training for free at any time to start officially tracking your progress toward your certificate of completion.
The single most important action you can take is to stay at home in order to take the pressure off the medical services and therefore you will save lives.
Government advice is currently that you should only leave the house for very limited reasons.
When you are outside you should minimise time spent outside your home and ensure you are at least two metres apart from anyone outside your household.
Critical workers and parents of vulnerable children may leave the house to take their children to and from schools or their childcare provider.
When you are shopping you need to think about your actions and help yourself and others to keep safe. Some ideas to keep safe while shopping are to the only shop when needed, do not go every day, buy for the week to minimise the number of trips. Do not make shopping trips just an excuse to leave home.
Use home delivery services but that is not always easy to get a slot.
Shop smart exactly what you need without panic buying and plan what you need to limit wasting food and making your shopping trip as quick as possible. Try and shop when the store is not busy.
Use hand gel if you have some and do not use a trolley, use bags for life if you only need a few items and you can carry them. If you do use a trolley, wipe it down with anti-viral wipes or spray or put alcohol hand gel. If you use scan and shop, make sure you clean the scanner as well.
Avoid unnecessary touching of shelves or products, look for what you want and pick up the product you want to buy to avoid contamination risks.
Avoid using your phone as this can transfer the virus directly to your face.
Keep at least 2 meters away from shoppers and staff, this is about two trolleys apart. Ideally, just one adult do the shopping for the household. Think about social distancing the whole time and do what the store tell you and follow their rules.
Gel hands before getting in car and wash hands when you return. If you do not have gel, use gloves and wash your hands before and after your shop.
Pay by card or contactless payments to minimise possible contamination.
Think about the safety of staff in the store to keep your distance and let them do their important job safely and follow their requests.
Some other ideas to protect yourself and your household during a lockdown include: