Never Alone Policy for Volunteer/Competitor Interaction
2024
To assure that students are safe during their time at the host facility, the following practices will be in effect:
A. All volunteers, regardless of whether they are university faculty, staff or students; or members of the general public at large, will need to sign in and show identification prior to being allowed to serve in their volunteer capacity.
B. All students will have a participation bracelet and will be required to wear this bracelet at all times throughout the competition.
C. All volunteers will have a nametag with identifying credentials and will be required to wear their credentials at all times throughout the competition.
D. Students will at no time be placed in a situation where they are in a one-on-one situation with any volunteers.
E. All volunteers will maintain a minimum two-person rule for all their interactions with individual students. This requirement is satisfied if the interaction occurs in an open venue event in which the volunteer and the individual student(s) are observable by other volunteers and the public.