COVID-19 POLICIES
 
Melbourne Tabla School is committed to COVID-safe policies. To keep everyone safe the following procedures are in place:
 
- Physical distancing of minimum 1.5 meters to be maintained at all times
 
- Density quotient of 4 square meters per person to be maintained at all times
 
- Face masks to be worn at all times
 
- Hand sanitising upon arrival and departure
 
- Sign in and out register for each lesson
 
- Students are required to bring their own drums and powder to each lesson. Where this is not possible, any shared instruments are only used by one student per day and wiped down daily
 
- New yoga mats are provided for each student to sit on during lesson. These are cleaned with antibacterial wipes after each student
 
- Students must confirm they have no symptoms prior to every lesson via text reply
 
- Outdoor lessons are provided where possible
 
- Well ventilated spaces provided for all indoor teaching spaces

- Configuration of equipment has been modified for safe physical distancing 

- For indoor lessons, waiting room procedures have been changed so that each student arrives only after the previous student has left, via text

- All hard surfaces are cleaned daily with disinfectant (floors, door handles) and more frequently (every 2 hours) for all high traffic/high touch areas
 
- There are no shared facilities (bathrooms, toilets) at the home teaching venues​
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- There no large groups, workshops or concerts are held at this time

- The current circumstances and advice of health authorities are regularly reviewed to ensure policies are adequate, effective and compliant
 
- Any student or teacher with cold or flu like symptoms is required to do online lessons and only return to face-to-face lessons when all symptoms have gone and given the ‘all clear’ by medical professionals

- If a case of Covid-19 is traced to our premises, Melbourne Tabla School will immediately establish an action plan based on the advice of Health Authorities which may include a full or partial closure of the business to allow for thorough cleaning, contact tracing and testing