You used to be able to smell the meatworks in Melbourne's western suburbs before you could see them.
The Ingham's poultry production plant in Thomastown, in Melbourne's north, shut down this week after several staff tested positive for COVID-19. Cedar Meats, SRS and JBS are located walking distance apart in a small triangle in Melbourne's west, bordered by Somerville Road, Geelong Road, and the Kororoit Creek.
"We know there are groups of people who are still not socially distancing. They're carpooling with other workers or family members, dropping some off at different sites on the way.Three problems stopping Victoria from flattening its coronavirus curveChief Health Officer Brett Sutton described social distancing at meatworks as "intrinsically difficult" in May, when the Cedar Meats cluster started to climb towards 80.
His sisters worked at Myer Highpoint servicing online orders, and their infections led to the closure of that site on May 15."They're good people, and at the end of the day … we're here to support them," he said, adding that his father thought of his employers as his friends.
But the guidance note did not recommend reducing the length of shift times from 10 or 12 hours, to six or eight hours — a key recommendation made by the CDC to reduce the number of people in any one business at the same time.The Department of Health and Human Services declined to comment on why enforceable guidelines had not been introduced to workplaces such as aged care facilities and meat processors.
Several people implicated in the scandals exposed by the Royal Commission into the Australian Meat Industry in the 1980s also remain in the business.
When will DanielAndrewsMP own up to this failings to safely protect Victorians as a result of the quantitative hotel mess (hide the sausage affair) CovidVic
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