Access and safety

All Australian campuses will reopen in the week commencing 8 June 2020 (Orientation Week 20T2). Based on campus activity in late 20T1, campus opening hours may not be the same as in 20T1, and will be reviewed every 3 weeks in response to demand and prevailing conditions. Visit your campus Technical Portal for details:

Adelaide - no change

Brisbane

Byron Bay

Melbourne

Sydney

Perth

In keeping with our commitment to protect the health and wellbeing of our college community, we ask that any student who is at greater risk of contracting COVID-19, or living with someone at risk, refrains from coming to campus for the time being. People at risk include those aged over 70 and anyone with a chronic health condition or compromised immune system. For more information please read the Australian Government’s advice for people at risk at COVID-19 and speak with your facilitator or Student Services.

All students are asked to use the wall-mounted hand sanitiser dispensers at the main entry door upon arrival, and in classrooms.

Additional hand sanitiser dispensers are located in Student Services and the Technical Department.

The following measures have been put in place to encourage physical distancing:

• • All rooms have been measured and labeled with their maximum capacity according to Department of Health guidelines. If there is no lable, the Dept has exempted Higher Education providers from the restrictions.

  • Walkways, elevators and places where people congregate or queue have been labelled on the floors to indicate physical distancing.

  • Some chairs have either been removed or labelled in meeting rooms, auditoriums, breakout spaces etc. to indicate that they should not be used.

All students are to observe room capacity, and floor and chair markings that encourage physical distancing.

Where distancing is not practical, masks are to be worn.

The number of available workstations on campus has been reduced to facilitate physical distancing. Please use the laminated card attached to the keyboard to indicate when you have used a computer.

SAE staff will routinely patrol the campus and replace or sanitise used keyboards and mice. and wipe down used desktops.

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All students who attend campus must, as a condition of entry, report to either Student Services or the Technical Department to log their attendance in our Contact Tracing System (CTS). This is an advanced visitor log book, which will assist in identifying who was on campus, and on which days, should we have a local confirmed case of COVID-19. The response is kept locally, and can be referred to if we are notified of a local infection. It will assist health authorities to contact the other people who were in the same location at the same time.

The system will send a summary to your email address on file. This can be used as your personal diary, and as evidence that you signed in.

Please consider downloading the Australian Government’s COVIDSafe App onto your phone. The app helps State and Territory health officials to quickly contact people who may have been exposed to COVID-19 and aims to reduce the spread of the virus to other people in the community.

Using the COVIDSafe App does not preclude you from logging your attendance in the SAE CTS.

Anyone considered a suspected case will be provided with a mask, and asked to leave campus to get tested. SAE will send each suspected case an email providing instructions on testing, and a member of staff will follow up to check on your welfare.

Examples of visitors include:

• • Actors & musicians

If students require a visitor to attend campus, you are to ensure that they:

• • Sanitise their hands upon entry.

  • Sign in via the relevant QR code

Please observe physical distancing rules, and stagger your coffee and meal breaks where possible. All shared utensils will be temporarily removed from circulation, and you should bring your own to campus. Please do not leave them in the shared space, or they will be discarded.

AIR TRAVEL

If you are unable to travel back to your home campus due to bans on cross-border travel, you will be able to join classes at your home or away campus in blended mode. We can facilitate you joining practical sessions and accessing facilities at your away campus. Please contact Student Services at your away campus.

ROAD TRAVEL

Information regarding the NSW / QLD border is changing regularly. For up to date information on QLD border restrictions please refer here. SAE Byron Bay students residing in QLD who are unable to attend their home campus should contact their lecturer(s), in the first instance. Blended / Flexible classes will be run to enable all students to attend via Zoom.

DENSITY

Accommodation density has been reduced by allowing only single room occupancy, with a maximum of 30 students living on campus at any one time.

PHYSICAL DISTANCING

Appropriate signage will be displayed in student accommodation common areas. All commencing residential students will attend an accommodation specific orientation in week 3 where physical distancing and hygiene protocols will be explained. Signs indicating the maximum number of students in common spaces are displayed, with separate entry and exit doors designated where possible.

HAND SANITISER

Hand sanitiser will be made available in the common kitchen, lounge and laundry. If bottles need replenishing, please see Student Services or the Tech Team.

VISITORS

In order to limit the amount of people in the student accommodation precinct, and reduce the risk of COVID19 transmission on campus, particularly in common areas, non essential visitors are not permitted. Essential visitors are defined as immediate family and will only be permitted into student accommodation after registering their attendance at Student Services or the Tech Team via the Contact Tracing System. For the avoidance of doubt, current non-residential students and former students are not permitted in student accommodation.

COMMUNICATIONS

The following activities will take place on a fortnightly basis, facilitated by the Byron Bay Student Services & Accommodation Coordinator:

• • Student accommodation newsletter with links to up to date information on the SAE COVID19 Response web page

  • Meetings with Student Prefects (Leaders) to facilitate the flow of information between staff and residential students and vice versa

MANAGING A SUSPECTED CASE

The Student Services & Accommodation Coordinator. will review the CTS daily and contact all suspected cases to check on their welfare and get an update. Follow the process for managing a suspected case.