“It’s frightening,” the union’s state secretary Paul Healey said. “This has never occurred in such a short space of time before and we are really concerned about the mental health stresses and the wellbeing of workers due to the pandemic.”
One-third of disability homes were still grappling with shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE) such as highly protective N95 face masks and goggles, the survey found, while about 60 per cent of homes did not have a clinical waste bin and almost 40 per cent were without a sanitary bin. About 40 per cent of workers said they had still not been…
