COVID-19 INFORMATION
FOR BLE 2021

Enhanced cleaning: All Informa events will undertake enhanced, deep cleaning before, during and after our events, working with venue partners to ensure the highest standards of hygiene and cleanliness. This includes continuous sanitisation throughout the course of an event, with a focus on high-touch areas such as door handles, restrooms and food and beverage areas.

Air Filtration: With venue partners, all Informa events will review the air filtration provided by current heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, including the effectiveness of design, installation and maintenance, as part of reducing exposure to any harmful particles. This will also ensure adequate cover of ventilation at all times, including during build-up and breakdown.

Waste receptacles: All Informa event will collecting and remove waste receptacles more frequently during events and disinfect them to a regular schedule.

Personal hygiene: All Informa events will provide additional hand washing facilities and hand sanitising stations throughout the event space, encouraging all participants to regularly wash and disinfect their hands.

Non-contact registration: All Informa events will employ a system that facilitates non-contact registration for participants – i.e. digital badges - including the availability of online registration. Onsite registration will not be permitted..

Physical contact: All Informa events will request that participants avoid physical contact, such as handshakes and embraces, promoting alternative ways to greet business partners. The exchange of printed materials, such as business cards and sales brochures, will also be discouraged, with digital alternatives recommended and provided.

Physical distancing: All Informa events will introduce greater visitor flow and traffic management to avoid unnecessary density and crowding challenges and avoid bottlenecks and cross walking, with regular monitoring during the event. For BLE, specifically this includes:

• Aisle widths / the distances between booths increased to 4m across the show floor
• The removal of high density features - such as the License Global seminar theatre
• Putting in place clear signage and floor markings
• Safe and pragmatic management of any unavoidable queues
  

Food and beverage stations: All Informa event teams will work closely with venue partners to employ the highest standard of food safety, minimising self-service buffets in favour of pre-packaged food options. If any queuing is anticipated, all efforts will be made to ensure the mgmt. of said queues.

H&S Officer: All events will establish an Informa Hygiene and Safety Ambassador/Officer: a colleague from Informa’s operations team, trained in the subject matter and up to date on the latest official guidance, who is responsible for monitoring hygiene and cleaning, ensuring AllSecure standards are followed, and sharing and continuously improving practices 

First aid: All Informa events will have access to a qualified first aider and a separate quarantine area if possible. Participants will be asked not to attend if they are feeling unwell, and teams will follow local health authority guidance on detecting and managing anyone who displays symptoms of COVID-19.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): PPE items, such as gloves, masks and eye screens, will be used by participants and staff if appropriate, in line with local government and health authority advice.

Screening: All Informa events will follow relevant health authority guidance on screening participants. This may include checking the temperatures of everyone on entry, through thermal scanning or other screening processes.

Trace and contact: Should it be necessary, all Informa events will work with local authorities to trace and contact participants at our events, subject to local privacy regulations.