The following information seeks to assist tenants to complete their COVID Safe plan, to enable them to safely return to the City’s community facilities.
All open businesses and services must have a COVIDSafe plan.
How to manage hygiene
- Display
'wear a mask', ‘wash your hands’, ‘cover your cough and sneeze’ and ‘reduce your risk of
coronavirus’ posters – these can be found via the Department of Health and Human Services website.
- Understand
your density requirements and set up your spaces to comply with physical
distancing rules
- Place soap
dispensers near all water taps
- Install
hand sanitising stations and prompt your visitors to sanitise their hands
regularly during activities
- Use social
distancing advisory floor stickers and posters (Please call council to support
with this if required)
- Disinfect
high touch places frequently (light switches, doors and door handles, tables,
rails etc.)
- Limit the
use of shared equipment and disinfect shared equipment frequently
- Have
personal protective equipment on hand (gloves, hand sanitizer, disinfectant)
- Create a
cleaning chart to record the day, date and times that you have cleaned your
equipment
- Ask your
staff and visitors not to attend the premises when they are sick
- Provide
education and resources about COVID to your visitors and staff
- Create a
COVID Safe group agreement with your program participants
How to manage indoor
facilities
- Block access to areas in your facility that are not in use
- Ensure that the activities you wish to offer
comply with the current Stay at Home and Restricted Activity Directions
- Maintain food safety standards - view some general advice
- Ensure your program facilitators are aware of
your COVID Safe Plan
- Request a COVID Safe Plan from all of your program
facilitators/ room hirers
- Create a joint agreement with program
facilitators/program participants to be COVID Safe
- Review and modify your COVID Safe Plan when
required
How to manage
physical distancing measures
- Provide a
gap between programs finishing and starting (if running multiple sessions
daily)
- Limit
entry to participants only
- Put up
signs / walkway arrows to instruct people on how to enter and exit the facility
- Set up
attendance registers/sheets to track arrivals and departures
- Display
advisory posters in areas where people could gather
- Block
access to areas in your facility that will not be used
How to manage
physical contact
- Modify or
change some activities to limit close contact
- Limit the
use of shared equipment as much as possible.
- Only
recommence programs and activities that comply with the current Restricted
Activity and Stay at Home Directions
How to manage shared
equipment
- Limit the
use of shared equipment and clean it frequently
- If possible,
only use equipment that can be cleaned well
- Create a
cleaning chart to record the date, day, and times that you have cleaned the
equipment
- Create a
COVID Safe group agreement in which your participants will agree not to share
cutlery, drink bottles etc.
How to manage
compliance
- The way you will monitor compliance will be based around the
measures that you put into your COVID Safe plan.
- Monitoring
examples include: staff meetings, attendance registers, cleaning charts,
providing COVID prevention updates and resources in newsletters.
- Strategies
to address non-compliance include: Not permitting entry to visitors if they are
unwell. Add this to your group agreements with participants.
What are some COVID
safe protocols & processes?
- Poster
requesting visitors to not enter the facility if they are unwell
- Group
agreement that visitors will not attend if unwell
- Asking
visitors who present unwell to leave the premises, seek medical attention and
not return until they are medically well
- Communicate
any changes to your program’s COVID Safe plan through letters, newsletters,
staff meetings, social media and website
What are some forms
of communication?
- Writing
letters or sending emails to the key people you need to contact
- Send newsletters
to your members
- Post
information on your social media and your website
- Create
COVID Safe group agreements with program participants
- Display
posters at the entrance to your facility and in your activity rooms