Because once the household case tests positive they stop being a household case and are now considered a positive case - and then you need to assess the positive case's isolation period, this being the earlier of either; the positive RAT, or becoming symptomatic. It could be reasonable to considered that the positive RAT result is due to being infected at the same time as his partner but a lag in the build up of sufficient virial load (or inaccuracy with previous RATs) resulted in negative results until this time, i.e. the onset of the symptoms relating to the positive RAT were 7 days prior to the test.Which bit of your quote above says the household contact can leave with a positive day 7 test? — Jane
(On a technicality) that is essentially the advice that the MoH / Covid-19.govt.nz website is giving:That goes against every public health measure we have in place, and I would love to know if it was a hcw who said that leaving the house straight after getting a pos rat was ok. — Jane
And given my understanding the the reporting of being a positive case is essentially automated now there would be no other advice given apart from this.Friday is your Day 0
What you need to do:
You need to self-isolate until Friday next week (Day 7).
You can leave self-isolation on Saturday next week.
What your household needs to do
The people you live with are Household Contacts. They must isolate with you until you leave self-isolation.
They must get a test this Monday (Day 3) and Friday next week (Day 7).
If their Day 7 test is negative and they have no new or worsening symptoms, your Household Contacts can leave self-isolation on Saturday next week.
If their Day 3 or Day 7 tests are positive, they need to begin 7 days of isolation as someone with COVID-19, and follow the guidance for people who are positive. — covid19.govt.nz
This is an interesting question for me - should WorkSafe NZ really be so involved in Covid... or to be more specific, is Covid actually an Occupational Health and Safety risk? Because if it is why have other highly infectious disease not been given the same level of occupation H&S risk scrutiny in all/general workplaces that Covid is been given, example being measles (or even seasonal influenza).And WorkSafe also having a focus on COVID. — Suzanne Broadbent
The next Saturday morning (after symptoms had subsided) I did another RAT test as it should have been the end of my isolation, and this one finally came back positive, but since I was asymptomatic, I was able to leave isolation? — Aaron Marshall
Unless since Aaron was originally symptomatic his timeframe could be consider from when he was first symptomatic... and therefore day 7 is the day he took the test...↪Aaron Marshall If I am reading your post correctly, you are a household contact of a positive case, so needed to test on day 3 and day 7 while isolating. Your viral load was high enough to be detected by RAT on your day 7 test. That would mean you need to stay in isolation, regardless of symptoms.
Your wife, however has done her 7 days isolation since testing pos, and can leave isolation so long as she has no further symptoms. — Jane
No problems Benjamin - I hope that the "hypothetical situation" is in fact hypothetical as it does sound like a bit of a tough position.Thank-you very much for your explanation which makes sense — Benjamin Basevi
I am assuming it is in reference to HSWA Sch 2 Cl. 1 further detailing of the HSR functions, which includes "to investigate complaints from workers in the work group regarding health and safety".Please can you define an HSR investigation? as I have never heard of it before.. — Don Ramsay
S69 states a PIN can be issued for any contravention of the Act, but shorthand any section which either has a duty to do something or has a offence attached to it.the Act does not (appear to) state which sections cannot be used for the purposes of a PIN, and therefore can these sections be a reason for a PIN if the HSR considers that this section of the Act is being contravened by a PCBU? — Benjamin Basevi
Please explain what part of this you do not understand. — KeithH
On the basis that HSR(B) is not available to represent the work group then may HSR(A) act in their capacity.HSR-B may accompany and assist HSR-A, or act in the capacity of HSR-A, in the circumstances:
a worker in work group B asks for HSR-A’s assistance, and HSR-B is found, after reasonable inquiry, to be unavailable; or
HSR-B requests that HSR-A perform his or her functions and exercise his or her powers during a period of absence or in other circumstances that will render HSR-B unavailable to the workers of work group B.
(note A & B references have been reversed to match the hypothetical situation above) — HSWA Sch 2 Cl. 6
Are you meaning investigation of a recent incident, or the workers have raised their concern regarding a serious health and safety matter with HSR(A) as HSR(B) is unavailable?Trained HSR (A) is conducting an investigation into a serious health and safety matter — Benjamin Basevi
Also add to this is that it can depend on if the RAT is being swabbed effectively - e.g. are they sticking the swab far enough up their nostril and wiping enough? Can be more likelihood for poor technique when the test is self-administered.b) there is little snot to carry the spike protein to the swab to the buffer to the well in the testkit — Jane
My take was (and this is just my interpretation) that businesses would not get any confirmation of acceptance/approval to use the scheme.Step 3 says the email that we receive after we registered is not an approval. — Yonny Yeung
will they be able to comply with the requirement of the order to "travel by a private means of transport, either alone or with a fellow resident only" (doesn't look like the Director-General has specified any other means they can travel...yet - but that's what you get when legislation is hastily written by those that don't live the reality of a lot of NZ, such as not having their own vehicle).A lot of our staff do not have a car or do not drive to work themselves — Jade
↪MattD2 Yes close contact scheme is correct. We were initially declined first attempt to register as a critical service. So, we have had to go back and do it again. Seemingly the process was different this time and we were given acceptance. It is a little mind boggling we were ever declined as without us, 8 DHB's cannot operate safely. — Jade
The RAT results can be recorded via the My Covid Record — TracyRichardson
notify the result of any rapid antigen test taken by the critical worker—
- to their employer before leaving their place of self-isolation to undertake permitted work or permitted work travel; and
- to the Ministry of Health in a manner required by a Director-General notice
the person undergoes daily symptom checks by following the instructions as set out on the Ministry of Health website
We have finally been accepted as 'critical' under the critical worker scheme — Jade