Sport in Italy is getting going again
and not just for professional athletes.
Guidelines.
Sports centres and gyms now have guidelines for when they
reopen, with doors set to open on May 25, and the information is
also useful for the people who use the facilities.
The ministry of sport has published these instructions, the
result of work by sport and health officials and the federation
of sports doctors, with the support of a CONI-CIP-Politecnico di
Torino study, on its website and so all managers of sports
facilities have the necessary directions.
Tracing Access.
Where possible, remote working is still recommended, along
with technological solutions that make it possible to trace
access to the facilities.
Risk Profile.
Each sports centre must carry out an assessment of its risk
profile and the sports operators are obliged to respect the
national health rules, such as the obligation to stay away from
work if they have symptoms and report contact with an infected
people.
Here is a summary of what the centres must do:
- evaluate reorganizing work-activities to reduce the number
of sports operators (those doing the activity and the personnel
authorised to be in the facility);
- split operators into groups doing the same job and in the
same places;
- distance training for personnel;
- determine in detail the risks of each area and the possible
scale of the movements;
- organize a sanification system for each change of shift and
constant cleaning of all spaces;
- give instructions on correct use and set times for airing
of the spaces;
- give information about the procedures to follow, on the
Internet, in areas of access, communal spaces, areas of sporting
activity, changing rooms and bathrooms;
- prepare special systems to collect potentially contagious
trash (such as tissues and facemasks).
PROTECTION AND PREVENTION MEASURES:
- use contagion-protection gear (facemasks, disposable
gloves);
- clean and sanify areas and equipment;
- put up clear signs on how to enter and exit the centre;
- prepare areas with set paths to keep people separate;
- prepare evacuation plans that avoid clusters of people
forming in the case of situations of need or emergency;
- ban operators and personnel on site swapping devices
(smartphones and tablets) and sporting equipment.
HYGIENE.
- frequently wash hands, including via dispensers of
disinfectant gel;
- maintain a minimum interpersonal distance of one metre if
not performing physical activity and two metres if performing
activity;
- do not leave clothes used for physical exercise in communal
areas, but put them into bags and, once home, wash them
separately from other garments;
- disinfect personal items (water bottles, tissues,
equipment) and do not share them;
- come to the centre already dressed for the activity that
will be performed and bring bags to put potentially infected
trash into;
- follow especially rigorous hygiene and safety measures for
the use of showers, changing rooms and bathrooms, where access
is to be limited to a set number of people;
- avoid using the facility's communal devices, such as
hairdryers;
- always drink from one's own disposable bottle and cup;
- immediately throw away tissues and other materials used in
sealed bags in the given containers.
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