With the lifting of the COVID lockdown, we are pleased to be able to return to playing games this weekend, as per the published fixtures. Please check your team’s fixtures for the remainder of the season as there have been some changes made in order to adjust for the cancelled rounds.
Please abide by the COVID Safe rules so that we can continue to enjoy our game safely.
Electronic Record Keeping
- Every person (player, team official, umpire, spectator etc) who enters Stead Park or Lloyd Reserve must record their attendance by checking in using the QR code located at the venue. There are separate QR codes for indoor and outdoor sections of the venues.
- All electronic record keeping will be via the Services Victoria app using the QR code supplied. Please download the app before you enter the venue.
COVID Check In Marshals
- A COVID Check In Marshal must be present in order for the facility to operate. Marshals will ensure that each person entering the venue has provided their details as required prior to entry and checked in using the QR code.
Face Masks
- A face mask should be carried at all times. It should be worn when indoors and outdoors, at all times except when playing a match or exercising strenuously.
Venue limits
- Only people who are required to attend to facilitate the activity may attend. This may include coaches, umpires, team managers.
- Carers, parents and guardians attending to support participation of a child or person with a disability may attend, limited to 1 parent per child.
- Spectators are not permitted at either training or games.
- There is a limit of 100 people indoors and 300 people outdoors. However, the density quotient of 1 person / 4 square metres still applies. Therefore the maximum number of people who can be indoors in the social area at Stead Park is 39.
- Do not arrive more than 30 minutes before your scheduled game time. Leave promptly as soon as your game is finished.
Practice Good Hygiene
- Social distancing rules must be observed. Do not stand around close to other participants while waiting to take part in the training drill or waiting for the match.
- No high fives, handshakes, spitting or contact.
- Do not attend the venue or participate in a match if you are feeling unwell or have any of the symptoms of COVID-19, or have been in contact in the last 14 days with someone who has tested positive or has had symptoms.
- Use hand sanitiser before, during and after your match, and wash hands frequently.
- Bring a full water bottle. Drink taps are not to be used.
- Arrive for your game dressed ready to play.
- Use your own equipment and do not share equipment. Do not share water bottles, sticks, clothing, training bibs, towels etc.
- Avoid touching the hockey ball, cones or training equipment unless you are the designated coach/ team manager.
- Cones and hockey balls should be cleaned and disinfected after use, before being used again. Wash the equipment in the cleaning solution, leaving it in for at least 10 minutes, before rinsing and drying.
Ensure physical distancing.
- Enter Stead Park via the gate on the left, exit via the gate on the right.
- Patrons should remain 1.5 metres apart from others and not gather in groups of more than 10.
- Avoid carpooling where possible.
Entering and leaving dugouts
- While waiting for your game to begin, maintain a social distance of 1.5 m from others.
- To avoid overcrowding and lack of social distancing at the end of games and training sessions, incoming teams who are waiting to begin their game/ training should gather to one side of the player dugouts.
- Do not enter the dugout until the outgoing team has retrieved their bags and left the dugout. The outgoing team should move as quickly as possible to clear the dugout for the incoming team.
- Use the spray disinfectant provided in the dugouts to sanitise touchpoints when the team is leaving.
Activity bubbles
- Limit the number of players, coaches, officials who participate in multiple games or training sessions in the one day. Try to maintain physical distancing where possible.
Change rooms and toilets
- Change rooms and toilets are open, with a maximum density of 1 person / 4 sq metres. Face masks should be worn indoors.
- A maximum of 2 people should be in the toilet area or in the corridor at the one time.
- The social area is open for use, with limits on the number of people permitted in the area.
- Members are asked to clean and disinfect areas of common use when they leave e.g. wipe the tables in the social area with the supplies provided.
- There will be no canteen facilitities at Stead Park or at Lloyd Reserve on the weekend of July 31/ August 1.
Training Guidelines
Training will resume as from August 2.
- Full contact training is allowed in groups of no more than 20 plus a coach or the minimum number of people required to conduct the activity. Each group may train on one half of the pitch.
- Participants should not mix or move between the groups. Ensure that there is a 5 m clear zone between each half of the pitch.
- Training sessions should finish 15 minutes before the next group is scheduled to begin i.e. sessions are 45 minutes long.
- Spectators are not allowed, but carers, parents and guardians may attend to support participation of a child or person with a disability may attend, limited to 1 parent per child.
- No high fives, handshakes or spitting.
- BYO water bottle.
- Do not share equipment – sticks, clothing, towels etc.
- Shared equipment should be cleaned between uses.
- Design your training drills to ensure that participants are socially distanced. Avoid participants standing together between drills.
- When the training session has finished, participants should leave immediately. ‘Get in, Train, Get out‘.