Heat Policy for Games Saturday 2nd March

1 Feb 2019 by Troy Ellis

Hi Club Members,

A reminder of the 🏀 heat policy for the predicted high temperature on Saturday..
Venue staff and referees will have the policy, along with a thermometer on court to monitor the temperature and enforce if necessary.

Can I please ask that you all remind your teams to bring plenty of water and towels. I also recommend that coaches use time-outs (in addition to referee time-outs) to reduce the risk of heat stress.

Heat Policy:
Item 3.4 (a) When the court temperature reaches 30oC competition organisers must consider implementing and where the court temperature reaches 35oC, MUST implement the following timing rules:

If a game is played in halves, the game time must be reduced by 2 minutes per half with 2 team timeouts per half. The clock must run as per KBA ByLaw

When the court temperature reaches 40C games must be abandoned.