* Measures updated 23 February 2022 To be implemented from 1 March 2022 Subject to changes with Health Orders
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Measure
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Potential options
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Check-ins and attendance
records
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- Organiser or school’s responsibility for collecting attendance records of students
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Cohorting
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- Consider scheduling events across multiple courts or playing spaces to minimise mingling and maximise ventilation.
- When not participating in their event, participants should sit with their cohort in designated areas where practicable.
- Seek parental consent, acknowledging and accepting the higher COVID transmission risk given the lack of strict cohorting.
- Discuss with venue sole use of facility, or how venue will avoid mixing groups outside cohort.
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Hygiene
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- Providing sanitising stations for all participants and attendees and displaying NSW Health messaging
- Cleaning of high touch areas and equipment between games
- Participants should bring own equipment (such as bats and gloves) for individual use where possible.
- Clarify roles and responsibilities of students, schools and venues for maintaining and encouraging hygiene.
- Consider adapting activities to be non contact eg hand shakes and high fives.
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Masks
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- Consider requiring masks indoors when not participating in sport and where physical distancing is not possible and contact is sustained.
- Mask wearing is mandatory for secondary school settings until 28 February, and for primary school settings until 7 March.
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Physical distancing
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- Spectators must adhere to any seating and designated area requirements set out by each venue.
- Adhere to physical distancing.
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Reduced mixing and mingling
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- Staggered competition and arrival times for parents/carers, spectators and participants where possible to reduce mingling.
- Consider asking participants to leave after their event.
- Participants should arrive at the venue ready to participate where possible to limit the use of change rooms.
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Vaccination
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- Consider limiting volunteers to fully vaccinated only. Check with venue requirements.
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Ventilation
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- Choose outdoor or well-ventilated venues. If indoors, open doors/windows to encourage ventilation.
- Consider the venue’s COVID safety measures and work with the venue to maximise ventilation.
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Venue Measures
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- Implement & adhere to the COVID – Safety measures offered by venues and providers
- Ensure COVID-Safety measures undertaken for each event is included in Risk and Safety management plan. Ensure strategies address and mitigate possible risks relevant to each venue and event.
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