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School Sport Victoria – COVID-19 Safe Plan
Guidance and Return to Play Plan
Version date: 22 January 2021
RETURN TO PLAY GUIDANCE FOR SCHOOL SPORT
This advice is intended to support the delivery of school sport in Victoria throughout 2021. This
advice is intended to be used by:
• School Sport Victoria (SSV) staff
• SSV Coordinators
• SSV Conveners
• SSV Team Vic Team Officials
• State Sporting Organisations, conducting events on behalf of SSV
• Participating schools in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria
• Victorian Teachers’ Games event deliverers.
It is intended to be used for the following events under the SSV banner:
• SSV State Championships
• SSV Region Competitions
• SSV Division Competitions
• SSV District Competitions
• School Sport Australia Championships hosted by SSV
• SSV Team Vic Selection Trials
• SSV Team Vic Training
• Victorian Teachers’ Games
• Any other events conducted by SSV
Up to date advice on SSV’s school sport events and competitions can be found on the SSV website.
This advice aligns with advice regarding sport and the use of indoor and outdoor facilities in the
Department of Education and Training’s (DET) School Operations Guide and the COVID-19 Safe
School Principles. Further advice on maintaining a COVIDSafe School and explanation of these
principles can also be found at Health and safety advice for schools in the context of coronavirus
(COVID-19). Participating schools are encouraged to refer to the School Operations Guide in addition
to this advice.
This plan also aligns with the COVID Safe Plan for Community Sport and Recreation.
Guidance for interschool sport also aligns with the requirements for community sport and recreation
as outlined in:
• Sport and recreation – Victoria – the last step
• Community Sport and Recreation Industry Restart Guidelines
• Public Events Framework
• Restricted Activity Directions
For sport specific delivery, SSV will use and align to the relevant State Sporting Organisation’s
COVID19 Safe Plan.
Contact the DET COVID-19 hotline for enquiries and advice – 1800 338 663.
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Guidance and Return to Play Plan
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School Sport Victoria – COVID-19 Safe Plan
Return to Play
ORGANISATION DETAILS
Provide organisation name, contact person, phone number, type of organisation, ABN, address.
Department of Education and Training, School Sport Victoria (SSV) ABN 62 845 022 867, 189
Urquhart Street Coburg VIC 3058
Key contacts at SSV:
• Rayoni Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, ph: 9084 9175
• Kirsteen Farrance, Operations Manager, ph: 9084 9164
• Ian Landy, National Programs Manager, ph: 9084 9176
SSV COVID Safe Plan
Organisation Name: School Sport Victoria
Plan competed by: Kirsteen Farrance
Date Reviewed: 22 January 2021
School Sport Victoria COVID-19 Tool Kit to be used by all SSV Coordinators/Conveners
• The SSV COVID-19 Tool Kit can now be found on the SSV website, COVID Page.
• The Tool Kit will be updated as new information is received.
If Contacted by the Media
SSV CEO and DET Communications personnel permitted to speak to the media.
If the media contacts any personnel or attends the competition venue, without prior
invitation/permission from SSV, then the convener is to:
• contact the SSV CEO immediately
• provide the contact details of the SSV CEO to the media personnel
• politely indicate that you cannot make any further comment.
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1. ENSURE PHYSICAL DISTANCING
Requirements SSV Actions
You must ensure participants, volunteers and Physical Distancing and Seating
organisers are 1.5 metres apart as much as possible. • Modify activities to optimise ability to maintain 1.5
This can be done by: metres physical distancing, including by separating
groups as much as possible
• Modifying sporting activities to ensure participants
• Ensure seating areas are set up to enable physical
remain 1.5 metres apart where possible except
distancing – this may mean blocking off sections of
when engaging in physical activity permitted by the
fixed seating or removing non-fixed seating.
Chief Health Officer directions
• Reiterate and maintain physical distancing between
• Displaying signs to show patron limits at the students at events when not participating.
entrance of enclosed areas where limits apply
• Reiterate and maintain physical distancing between
• Informing organisers and volunteers to work from
adults at events, physical distancing of 1.5m
home wherever possible
between each person and the density ratio is
You may also consider: enforced.
• Minimising the build-up of people waiting to enter • Provide signage on the maximum occupancy of
and exit the venue/facility areas that are open to the general public.
• Using floor markings to provide minimum physical • Recommend the use of face masks in situations
distancing guides where physical distancing cannot be maintained.
• Reviewing delivery protocols to limit contact
between delivery drivers and organisers and Entries and Exits
volunteers • Adhere to local sports/facility provider
requirements e.g. using lanes/walkways to move
traffic through venues/entries and exits.
• Ensure different doors for entry and exit and use
floor markings to provide minimum physical
distancing guides.
• Use an entry and exit system to the venue/facility
that is as contactless as possible and quick to enter
and exit.
• Identify designated drop off and pick up areas.
• When permitted to use a school venue, the teacher
in charge of the visiting team must meet team
members outside the school gate and escort them
(via an outdoor route) to the competition site.
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Requirements SSV Actions
You must apply the density quotient to configure • Rearrange, remove or cordon off furniture in
shared activity areas and publicly accessible spaces to common areas to ensure physical distancing.
ensure that: • Stagger seating so participants, volunteers,
• You are complying with any density quotient, any organisers, parents and carers are not facing one
group size limits and other restrictions applicable to another.
the type of facility being used. • Comply with relevant density quotient and signage
requirements as required under relevant
directions of the Chief Health Officer.
• Enforce the current restrictions limiting the number
of players, teachers and parents that can attend an
event, as per the density quotient for the venue.
• School sports on school sites involving external
guests, the density quotient of one per 2m2
applicable to staff and visitors/parents.
• External visitors on school grounds will be at the
discretion of the Principal and must meet the
density quotient specified in the School Operations
Guide.
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Requirements SSV Actions
You should provide training to organisers and SSV Conveners
volunteers on physical distancing expectations while • SSV Conveners and Coordinators must have
working and socialising. undertaken all necessary COVID training.
• Reinforce messaging to participants, volunteers and
organisers that physical distancing needs to be
maintained during activities/events and during
social interactions.
• SSV will provide fluoro COVID-19 vests to identify
the convener and specifically appointed COVID-19
officer at the event.
Advice to Schools
• SSV will provide advice to schools for participation
in SSV events which includes travel, equipment and
hygiene requirements.
• Schools will communicate the necessary restrictions
to parents, including that additional spectators are
to be discouraged.
• Staff are recommended to attend SSV events with
their students, to minimise risks to staff and
students.
• Where staff are not available, schools will provide
permission for only the necessary parents to
accompany students for the competition and will
take responsibility for the recording of the personal
details of these people.
• SSV will communicate to schools on rules in relation
to gathering limits, participants limits and
spectators.
• Educating participants, volunteers and organisers on
hand and cough hygiene, including how to wash
and sanitise their hands correctly.
• No high fives, handshakes, or other physical contact
other than physical activity permitted by the Chief
Health Officer as part of the game.
• Reinforcing the importance of not attending
activities or events if unwell.
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2. WEAR A FACE MASK
Requirements SSV Actions
You must ensure all participants, volunteers and Face Masks
organisers entering the venue/facility wear a face • When required, monitor the use of face masks by all
mask as per public health advice participants, volunteers, organisers and people who
https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/face-masks-vic-covid-19 attend the venue/facility unless a lawful exception
applies.
• Facemasks must be carried at all times.
• It is recommended that people 12 years and older
wear a face mask when you cannot keep 1.5m
distance from others.
• Those that are required to wear a face mask are
responsible for providing their own. However, SSV
will maintain a supply at events in the case where
they have not provided their own.
You should provide training, instruction and guidance
on how to correctly fit, use and dispose of PPE.
• SSV must comply with the current regulations about
Masks must be worn at all times except when out of
breath or puffing from strenuous exercise unless a carrying and wearing facemasks.
lawful exception applies.
You should inform participants, volunteers and
organisers that cloth masks should be washed each day
after use. However, if during the day the mask is visibly
dirty or wet, the mask needs to be changed
immediately and the dirty mask stored in an airtight
bag or container until it can be washed.
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3. PRACTICE GOOD HYGIENE
Requirements SSV Actions
You must frequently and regularly clean and disinfect Good Hygiene
shared spaces, including high-touch communal items • Reinforce hand hygiene before, during and after
such as door knobs, shared equipment and activity.
telephones.
• If soap and water are not readily available, hand
You should: sanitiser with at least 60 per cent alcohol should be
• Clean surfaces with appropriate cleaning products, made available
including detergent and disinfectant • Arrive ready to play, i.e. already in sports uniform to
• Replace high-touch communal items with hygienic reduce need for changing rooms.
alternatives, for example single-use or contactless • Stagger use of change rooms and adhere to density
options, where possible to do so quotients.
• Minimise the sharing of equipment. All equipment • Students to provide own drink bottles, food, towels
must be cleaned and disinfected between uses and personal equipment.
• Clean between user groups or sessions • Sharing of food should be avoided, where required
provide individual portions.
• No sharing of personal items and personal
equipment.
School Sporting Equipment
• Schools that bring sports kits e.g. bats, gloves,
helmets, positional bibs etc. are responsible for
maintaining the hygiene of this equipment.
• Avoid sharing of sporting equipment between
schools (other than what is required on field).
• Schools to provide own first aid kit including hand
sanitiser with at least 60 per cent alcohol.
Cleaning
• Identify high touch surfaces (lift buttons, door and
cupboard handles, kitchen counters, touch screens,
shared equipment, taps and toilets).
• Obtain information about venue/facility cleaning
schedule and how to use cleaning products.
• Aligned with the required cleaning standards in a
school facility, please ensure that the necessary
cleaning arrangements are made. Schools should
provide their onsite facility manager with the
Enhanced School Cleaning Guideline so that the
necessary cleaning arrangements can be made.
• At venues where there is an onsite facility manager,
the SSV Convener will liaise with the manager to
ensure facilities are undertaking their regular
hygiene practices throughout the day.
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Requirements SSV Actions
• At venues where there is no onsite facility manager,
the SSV convener must ensure that the cleaning and
disinfecting activities listed in the Enhanced School
Cleaning Guideline are delivered accordingly.
• Ensure cleaning and disinfection of communal
facilities (toilets and communal changerooms) prior
to and after an interschool sport event and high
touch point areas during an event.
SSV will provide the following for all SSV events:
• Competition equipment as required under the SSV
rules or hire required equipment to conduct the
event.
• Sufficient cleaning products to maintain hygiene
requirements of equipment.
• Information to competing schools regarding
equipment, first aid kits, requirements of the venue
etc.
You should make soap and hand sanitiser available for • SSV will ensure that hand sanitiser (with at least 60
all participants, volunteers and organisers throughout per cent alcohol), wipes and spare single use face
the venue/facility and encourage regular handwashing. masks are available at a central location where
teams report on arrival.
• Schools must supply their own hand sanitiser (with
at least 60 per cent alcohol) for their team
bench/areas.
• Ensure participants, volunteers and organisers have
information on how to wash and sanitise their
hands correctly.
• All attendees will sanitise their hands upon arrival
and departure at the venue/facility.
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4. KEEP RECORDS AND ACT QUICKLY IF PARTICIPANTS, VOLUNTEERS OR
ORGANISERS BECOME UNWELL
Requirements SSV Actions
You must support participants, volunteers and • Any staff, students, parents, officials etc. who are
organisers to get tested and stay home even if they unwell must not attend the venue or attend the
only have mild symptoms. event, and should return home if they become
unwell with COVID-19 symptoms (loss or change in
sense of smell or taste, fever, chills or sweats,
cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny
nose).
• Clear communication messages provided to
students, staff and others that they stay home
when unwell.
• The COVID-19 Identifying the Symptoms Fact Sheet
is to be displayed and available at SSV events – this
resource explains the different symptoms that may
be experienced if you have coronavirus (COVID-19),
a cold or the flu.
• Staff or students most at risk of severe illness
should continue to individually assess
appropriateness for participation in interschool
sport with support from their treating medical
practitioner. Note that the outcome of such an
assessment may vary during the course of the
pandemic and the level of community
transmission.
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You must develop a plan to manage any outbreaks. The Department has comprehensive procedures in
This includes: place with DHHD to manage suspected or confirmed
cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in schools, that will be
• Having a plan to respond to a participant, volunteer
followed in the event of a suspected or confirmed case
or organiser being notified by health authorities that
of coronavirus at an SSV event.
they are a positive case and attended the facility
whilst infectious, noting people who show
symptoms or have been in close contact should NOT Below are the actions for SSV in relation to responding
attend the venue/facility or activity until they to a person who presents as unwell.
receive their test results or have completed their
quarantine period and are cleared by DHHS. Responding to an unwell person
• Having a plan to identify and notify close contacts • Follow guidance on ‘Management of an unwell
in the event of a positive case attending the student or staff member’ from the Operations
venue/facility during their infectious period. You are Guide that applies to interschool sport.
also required to notify DHHS of the positive case
• PPE should be considered and used as indicated in
• Having a plan in place to clean the venue/facility (or the Department’s guidance for the use of Personal
part) in the event of a positive case
Protective Equipment in education settings in the
• Having a plan to contact DHHS and notify the context of coronavirus (COVID-19).
actions taken, provide a copy of the risk assessment
• School or SSV will need to provide appropriate PPE
conducted and contact details of any close contacts
in the event of symptomatic individuals
• Having a plan to immediately notify WorkSafe • An appropriate isolation space should be
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with coronavirus (COVID-19) at your venue/facility becomes unwell symptoms compatible with
• Having a plan in the event that you have been coronavirus (COVID-19), such as fever, cough or
instructed to close by DHHS sore throat.
• Having a plan to re-open your venue/facility once • Should a student present with these symptoms,
agreed by DHHS and notify participants, volunteers they need to be isolated with supervision and their
and organisers they can return to the venue/facility parent/carer notified to collect them as soon as
More information can be found at possible.
coronavirus.vic.gov.au • The teacher/parent responsible for the student or
the student themselves should take immediate
action to report concerns to the SSV COVID-19
Officer or the Convener of the event.
• The SSV COVID-19 Officer should advise the
teacher/parent responsible for the student that the
student should seek medical advice and/or obtain a
COVID-9 Testing locations can be found here:
https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/where-get-tested-
covid-19.
• Every precaution should be taken to ensure that
distance and hygiene measures are adhered to
when communicating with and taking care of
someone presenting with COVID-19 symptoms.
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Cleaning
• The isolation space/chair and objects touched
should be cleaned and disinfected after the unwell
person has left.
• If an SSV event is conducted on a school site, liaise
with the school principal and follow the advice in
the School Operations Guide and the COVIDSafe
Routine Cleaning Guidelines for School Settings.
Notify
• The SSV COVID-19 Officer needs to ensure they
have all the relevant contact details for the person
who is presenting unwell. If the student is not
accompanied by a teacher or a parent, contact
should be made with the school/parent.
• The SSV COVID-19 Officer may/will be required to
communicate the incident to the school, DET
and/or the venue.
• SSV Convener to contact the schools attending and
SSV to notify them of the incident
• The SSV Manager or CEO to notify DHHS, WorkSafe
and your health and safety
representative/authorised officer, if applicable.
You must keep records of all people who enter the • Participating schools to keep a list of attendees
venue/facility for contact tracing. (staff/parents and students) as per DET excursion
requirements via relevant administration software
e.g. Compass.
• Unless listed on a school’s excursion
documentation (as per above), SSV will record the
name and contact details in the attendance
register via a QR code, to support contact tracing.
• SSV Convener to send any illness/injury reports to
SSV for all SSV interschool sport events.
• Comply with any additional entry requirements
requested by facilities/venues in addition to
complying with requirements of the school group
to which you are accompanying.
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5. AVOID INTERACTIONS IN ENCLOSED SPACES
Requirements SSV Actions
You should reduce the amount of time participants, Travel
organisers, parents, carers and anyone in attendance • Schools are to comply with DET travel arrangements
for activity are spending in enclosed spaces (e.g. for students as per the School Operations Guide.
entrances, bathrooms, changerooms and clubhouses)
• SSV officials and conveners are to travel separately
(where use of indoor areas are permitted under the
to the venue.
restrictions).
• Discourage carpooling when travelling to and from
This could include: the venue.
• Enabling working activities in outdoor environments • Requirements relating to interstate travel will follow
• Moving as much activity outside as possible, the advice as per the School Operations Guide.
including serving customers patrons, meetings,
tearooms and lunchbreaks and locker rooms. Venue
• Enhancing airflow by opening windows and doors • SSV Coordinators are encouraged to use outdoor
• Optimising fresh air flow in air conditioning systems venues where possible e.g. netball/basketball
courts.
• Where possible promote outdoor airflow into
bathrooms and changerooms.
• Making sure that air conditioning is not set to
recirculate and that windows are set for optimum
air flow during sessions or activities.
• Where applicable, minimise the activity conducted
in foyers, entrances, clubrooms, bathrooms and
changerooms.
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Guidance and Return to Play Plan
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6. CREATE WORKFORCE/ACTIVITY BUBBLES
Requirements SSV Actions
Limit the number of participants, volunteers and • SSV Coordinators may:
organisers engaging in activities across multiple
o modify sport rules/draws etc as part of a
teams/venues/facilities where practical. This includes
transmission reduction strategy for
avoiding having participants playing across multiple
participants.
teams
o consider scheduling of events/matches to
minimise groups/teams gathering in a
permitted space.
o moving of furniture, chairs, scoring benches to
encourage physical distance being maintained.
• Designate areas within the venue/facility for each
group to store equipment and belongings (bags,
bats, etc.)
• Encourage participants, volunteers and organisers
to minimise time in shared facilities when taking
breaks/between games/sessions.
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