Business Continuity

For more information about business impacts in Victoria, visit https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/business-sector-coronavirus-disease-covid-19

30 March 2020

Moratorium on Commercial Evictions

The Federal and State Governments announced on 30th March 2020 that a moratorium on evictions will be introduced for the next 6 months for residential and commercial tenants who are experiencing financial distress due to the impact of coronavirus. This will apply across all states and territories.

27 March 2020

What can be done to support business continuity?

While COVID-19 started as a health emergency, it is rapidly developing into an economic crisis. Your planning needs to consider a significant downturn in business activity. You may need to consider how you redeploy staff across other areas of your organisation. You may need to discuss leave arrangements. As a last resort, you may need to consider stand downs.

S524 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) allows an employer to stand down an employee without pay in certain circumstances for a period when the employee cannot be usefully employed because of, among other reasons, a stoppage of work for any cause for which the employer cannot reasonably be held responsible. Stand downs should only be considered as a last resort and specific advice should be sought before doing so.

What financial support is available?

What is the impact for the industry?

The impact of the current State of Emergency will be significant, but exact details are unknown. Research by Royal Life Saving Society identifies the scale of the industry:

Training

In addition to the CPR and First Aid Webinar Training for Workplaces and the CPR@Home and First Aid@Home training courses already available, LSV is pleased to announce that face-to-face courses are currently open for booking, this includes Pool Lifeguard, Swim Teacher, face to face CPR and First Aid and Aquatic Technical Operator. All training courses are discounted 25% until December 31.

You can book into courses at www.lsv.com.au/training.

To book a group course for your staff contact training@lsv.com.au  or call us on 03 9676 6950 for group bookings.

Pool Safety Services

LSV are pleased to continue to offer a 25% discount on Pool Safety Services including:

-Pool Safety Assessments

-Supervision Plan Validation Audit

-SwimSafe registration

-Supervision Plan development

-Emergency Planning Services (incl: Emergency Plan development, Emergency Planning Committee Training, Emergency Management Risk Assessments & Evacuation Diagrams

For more info head to: https://lsv.com.au/pool-safety-services/ or email us at: assessments@lsv.com.au or call at 03 9767 6985

Are planned LSV industry events going ahead?
A number of upcoming activities and events which will be impacted by the current state of emergency. While some activities will need to be cancelled, where possible activities will be postponed or conducted via an alternative method. See LSV event advice for a full list of changes.

Aquatic, Fitness and Recreation (AFAR) – Professional Development Series

In uncertain and challenging times, key aquatic and fitness industry organisations have come together and taken the decision to step up the effort to support engagement and professional development during the COVID-19 state of emergency. The outcome of this collaboration is the decision to offer free professional development opportunities to anybody associated with the aquatic and fitness industry four times each week between April and July.

These sessions will be delivered directly into the homes of industry personnel through a simple Microsoft teams link. Four streams have been developed to guide the delivery / inform attendance and are hoped to encourage uptake by a broad scope of industry personnel who are stuck at home.

To participate head to: https://lsv.com.au/pool-safety-services/afrf-pd-series/