McLaws said complying with best-practice airflow standards would help protect workers from any failures of PPE.
âIf they were non-compliant and pulled their masks down but there werenât aerosols for them to breathe in then they would not get infected,â she said.
She said she was âdisappointedâ security guards in Western Australia were not required to wear masks when more than 1.5 metres away from a guest until this week and eye protection was not mandated until Thursday. WA only began daily testing of quarantine staff last week.
But ultimately, McLaws said, hotels were not hospitals. They were not designed to deal with infection control so the government should invest in purpose-built facilities or options like Howard Springs.