Airport worker COVID-19 vaccination requirements
Workers in airport settings must be fully vaccinated. Workers must provide evidence of their vaccination status to their employer.
Airport workers
Airport workers are anyone who works in an airport terminal or provides transport or carpark services primarily within the airport precinct. This includes:
- Queensland-based air crew
- workers conducting health screening or other health services
- workers conducting passport and border control, biosecurity and law enforcement
- workers providing transport and carpark services within the airport precinct, where their principal place of work is the airport, including AirTrain™ workers who work primarily at the airport stations and airport transfer drivers who provide shuttles to and from the airport
- those involved in customer service roles in the airport including staff in airport lounges
- those providing terminal and airside services, including ground crew, freight staff, ground handlers, caterers, cleaners, ramp workers, baggage handlers, maintenance workers, engineers and security staff
- workers engaged by a retail, car hire or food outlet in the airport terminal or in an adjoining carpark
- volunteers (including Airport ambassadors) working in the airport terminal.
Workers in physically separate airport precincts, such as Brisbane’s Direct Factory Outlet (DFO) precinct, are not included in the vaccination mandate.
Taxi and rideshare drivers who do some but not most of their work at the airport are not included in the vaccine mandate. There are, however, requirements on drivers for endorsed transport providers.
Visitors to airport settings
The requirement to be fully vaccinated does not apply to visitors to airports.