• Provide employees with any personal protective equipment recommended by occupational health and safety guidelines, and with training to ensure it is used correctly.

• Health Canada has published a list of hard surface disinfectants that are likely to be effective for use against COVID-19.

• Provide access to soap and paper towels in washrooms. Do not let them empty.

• Purchase and place hand sanitizing dispensers in prominent locations (entrances, ice area, lounge).

(B) CURLING CENTRE LAYOUT AND NAVIGATION

• J Check with your local authorities about the use of locker rooms. You may have to insist on players arrive at the rink ready to play if access to locker rooms is restricted.

• J Remove water dispensers (unless they are touchless). Players may bring their own containers (no alcohol). Individual containers do not need to be 6 feet apart, however, only the owner should handle their container.

• J Investigate arriving in one door and exiting another.

• J Use markers to show traffic flow: in the front door, to the ice, off the ice, out the exit door.

• J Add temporary partitions to the lounge to create some extra change room space.

• J Set up tables of eight with four chairs to maximize physical distancing.

• J Investigate electric doors; touchless taps for sinks; automatic soap dispensers; automatic paper towel dispensers; touchless urinals and toilets.

(C) CURLING EQUIPMENT

• J Rental equipment (sliders, brooms) should be disinfected aſter each use. Consider charging $5 (or more) per item and use this revenue to hire someone to clean them.

• J Consider removal of club-provided equipment from the ice shed such as stabilizers if you cannot ensure proper disinfection measures aſter each use.

• J Stones:

  • Stones should be sanitized at the start of each draw.

  • Players select their two stones. No interchanging of stones during a game.

  • Players should not touch any stones other than their own. Let the player delivering the next stone retrieve their own stone.

  • Insist that the stones are lined up in single fle in the corners.

• J Measuring: remove gloves, sanitize your hands, conduct measure, return measure device to its normal location, sanitize your hands.