ONSW COVID-19 Update March 2025
COVID-19 and influenza are at a low level of activity in the community.
Current NSW Health Guidance on COVID-19 recommends you stay at home if you have cold or flu symptoms and wear a mask if you need to leave home. Also stay up to date with your Covid-19 vaccinations.
To continue to protect the orienteering community from Covid-19 and other respiratory viruses, clubs should:
- Advise competitors and volunteers not to attend events if they have cold or flu symptoms.
- Maintain a cancellation policy of fully refunding entry fees for those entrants who are unable to attend an event due to genuine COVID-19 related concerns.
- Keep the orienteering community safe by: providing hand sanitiser for competitors to use before and after competing, encouraging physical distancing, and disinfecting surfaces after use.
- Ensure indoor spaces are well ventilated.
Resources
ONSW has now archived the COVID-19 resources that were previously available.
Archived RESOURCES
Sample COVID-19 Safety Plan for Minor Orienteering Events – 21 July 2022
COVID-19 Safety for Community Sport Communication Toolkit – March 2022
Other guidance for organisers
Current NSW Public Health Orders - current
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Archived documents
Instructions for preparing a COVID-19 Safety Plan - 21 October 2021 (ONSW)
Sample COVID Safety Plan – Minor Events (older version but more comprehensive)
Hand-washing poster - 1 December 2020
Sport Venue Guidelines for clubs - 17 July 2020 (Sport NSW poster)
Sport Venue Guidelines for participants and spectators - 17 July 2020 (Sport NSW poster)
WHO advice for the public - with downloadable posters
World Health Organisation guidance on cleaning surfaces
Last updated 1st March 2025
