Tradies around town are coming to terms with the new rules mandating they wear face masks in indoor areas of construction sites.
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This new rule, which applies to all of NSW, was introduced on Sunday evening.
President of the Central West Master Builders Association and owner of Banksia Building, Mick Banks, said it was a small price to pay.
"If that's what we gotta do, then that's what we gotta do," he said.
"We're still working and it's a pretty small sacrifice to make to be able to keep working."
The construction site announcement came a day before NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced there were 112 locally acquired infections in NSW in the 24 hours to 8pm Sunday.
Of those, 34 were in the community while infectious, but none of the 112 were in the Central West.
Asked if there had been much discussion amongst his workers, Mr Banks said: "Being winter time it's not too bad and it's only indoor work as well, so a lot of the big, heavy physical work is on the outside usually.
"I suppose that everyone is whinging about it, but when they realise that they're still lucky they can keep working they'll realise it's a pretty small sacrifice to work."
But the post on Facebook by NSW Health announcing the new rules did add that "there are certain exemptions to this requirement including if wearing a mask creates a safety issue", including health-related exemptions. Also asked about his thoughts on the new rule was owner of Cabonne Constructions Matt Stevenson.
Mr Stevenson felt similarly to Mr Banks.
"We just follow the Master Builders guidelines, so whatever our industry recommends we follow that," he said.
"It doesn't matter, it's just what we've got to do. I wasn't really shocked about the rules.
"It is what it is. It's not like we get to flex the rules, we just gotta do what we gotta do."
Monday was the first day of the new rules and Mr Banks added that the initial day was always the hardest.
"After that it will just be normal for a couple of weeks. Everyone is trying to find a loophole, but when they realise it's going to enable us to keep working, I think it'll fine," he said.
"The Government hasn't shut the building industry down and we're the second largest employee in Australia so they need to keep us working so it could be worse.
"It's good that we're still working, it's a slight inconvenience but at least we're still working."
"The biggest message that I'd like to get through to people is to be sensible, to follow the rules, QR code into every site and it's a small sacrifice to keep working."
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