Hockey NSW have advised that there has been amendments to the current COVID Recommendations. These amendments are below:

• From Saturday 26 September, interregional community sporting competitions can recommence without restricting these activities to regions or zones, where there is a COVID-19 Safety Plan for the school or community sporting activity in place.
• The advice provided in August regarding limiting spectators to one parent per child, and inter-region sport and recreation activities has been removed, however organisations must still ensure their activity is delivered in compliance with the Public Health Order and the COVID-19 Safety Plan requirements.
• This includes the requirement to adhere to the 500-person limit for community sport activities (including participants, officials and spectators) and/or adhering to the one person per four square metre rules in indoor spaces.
• School and community sports organisations and participants should continue to avoid shared travel arrangements such as car-pooling, along with minimising social gatherings before and after the event.

Other bits of information that are relevant to shared community sport facilities:

• Some community sport facilities may cater for several sports, for example multiple football fields located next to multiple netball courts in a single outdoor precinct. In this case, each organised activity is permitted up to 500 participants, as long as the people from the respective activities are not interacting with each other.
• Each organised activity must have its own allocated common facilities (including changerooms, toilets and canteen areas) to ensure participants from both activities are not interacting.
• Community sport organisations should discuss how this can be facilitated with their venue owner/operator.

It is still vital that:

• Your venues COVID Safety Plan is up to date, communicated to your members & adhered to.
• Physical Distancing protocols are followed (e.g 1.5 meters apart etc).
• Hygiene protocols are followed.
• Attendance Registers are still operational and to be used for tracing purposes.
• Signage is still displayed encouraging Physical Distancing, Hygiene and other COVID related topics.
• No more than 500 people attend your venue (if outdoors) and/or adhering to the one person per four square metre rule in indoor spaces.

There have been multiple checks on venues from councils and health officials so please be aware of this and re-enforce the importance of complying with all Government and Health regulations in place at the current time.

The LHA board thanks all members and family members for their understanding during what has been a unique and challenging time for our hockey community.

Regards

Barry Samson

President