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.
Contact ONSW COVID Officer (Margaret Duguid) at
Resources
ONSW has now archived the COVID-19 resources that were previously available.
Please contact John Murray at
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
The links below relate to Eventor
How to set up an event so competitors can still enter via Eventor after the event has commenced
How to Register and Add Yourself as a State Casual in Eventor - version 1.0a
Documents for Sydney Summer Series Manual Backup
Casual member registration form
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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
