ATHLETE/ PARTICIPANT EVENT TRAINING AT THE VENUE
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During Event Training:
- All participants should wear face masks all the time while at the activity venue (except when training and competing)
- The participants will be arriving to the venue for training in buses, the players should be transported in small groups to avoid spread of infection (maximum of 25 in 50 passenger capacity bus, maintaining 1.5m physical distance front, side and behind).
- Once the participants reach the venue, intermingling with other people should be avoided
- Avoid shaking hands, or hugging or kissing others
- The 1.5 meters in the players changing room need to be maintained.
- Participants are advised, while talking to the other players / staff/event organizers to maintain a distance of 1.5 meters.
- Sanitizers should be made available throughout the training and competition venues and should be used frequently.
- Each Event organizing team should have a non-contact thermometer (e.g. infrared) to screen staff and delegates temperature check on arrival.
- Players should use their own drinking bottles and not share with others.
- Spitting should be avoided on the field of play.
Additional measures during the event:
- Team medical staff or LOC members at venues should check competitors’ temperatures each day, any temperatures above 37.8°C should be reported to the event medical lead/chief medical officer.
- Provide each participant with a clean water bottle. Good team hygiene includes ensuring all players, officials and staff have their own water bottles to prevent the transmission of viruses and bacteria.
- Wash hands often with soap and water. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer if soap and water is not available. Hand sanitizer stations should be available throughout the event venue, the accommodation, and on team buses.
- Gloves should be worn by team and event staff handling towels or laundry in the team environment.
- Towels should not be shared.
- Athletes should not share clothing, bar soap or other personal items.
- Make tissues and containers to dispose of used tissues with lids available on all buses and in all facility changing rooms.
- Provide each team with a thermometer (e.g. infrared) and a recording sheet/internet link for athletes’ temperatures. If this is not possible, each team can be equipped with a non-contact sensor thermometer.
- Anyone due to participate in the event who has fever or is feeling ill should not come to the venue and be advised to go home and contact 16000 for advice.
- It is the responsibility of the organizer to appoint/assign staff/volunteers to monitor the compliance of participants with the preventive measures.
- Option for participants to buy entry tickets online rather than in person to avoid crowding at entrance.
- Provide hand sanitizer containing at least 60% alcohol at entrances, exists, elevators, escalators, throughout the exhibition floor and other areas with commonly touched surfaces.
- Washroom capacity should allow for distancing between guests. For example, consider closing alternate sinks or urinals.
- Thoroughly sanitize each table after attendees leave.
- Washroom sanitation and supervision should be enhanced.
- Enhance cleaning and disinfection of high-touch surfaces such as elevator buttons, railings, door handles, public seating, payment devices, microphones, podiums etc.
- Event staff and volunteers should perform hand hygiene frequently.
- Stagger loading schedules during setup and cleanup to enable distancing of staff, volunteers and vendors at loading docks and entryways.
- Implement elevator use protocols, if applicable, to enable physical distancing.
- Consider how emergency response plans may need to be modified to accommodate physical distancing.
- If background music is provided within a venue, the volume should be kept to a minimum in order to facilitate conversations between vendors and attendees. Loud music may increase the need for participants to lean in closer to each other and/or raise their voices.
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