Co-ed Dressing Room Policy (Brampton Hockey Inc.)

Brampton Hockey is committed to equal access for all male and female players at all levels of league play. As such the Co-ed Dressing Room Policy to ensure protection of the reasonable intimacy and safety of all players while ensuring access for all players to coaching time and team participation.  This policy is based on the Hockey Canada Co-ed Dressing Room Policy. The Hockey Canada Policy has been approved by the Hockey Canada Board of Directors:

• When separate facilities exist for both male and female participants, males and females shall make use of these separate facilities.

• If the facility does not have separate changing areas available, players shall address the issue by dressing, undressing, and showering in shifts. It is the responsibility of the team to provide a plan that will ensure the safety of individual players when they are dressing, undressing and showering.

• A list of the Brampton rinks with and without separate facilities is given at the end of this policy.

• In all cases where members of a team include both male and female players, the following dress code will apply in the team dressing room (once dressed in accordance with these minimum requirements listed below all players may return to the team dressing room):

• Male players will not undress to less than a minimum of shorts while females are present;

• Female players will not undress to less than a minimum of shorts and a tee-shirt while males are present.

• It is the responsibility of the Head Coach to ensure that these guidelines are followed.

Approved:
 

Location	Update – September 2013
Cassie Campbell Rec Centre	one alternative dressing room
Century Gardens Rec Centre	NO ALTERNATIVE DRESSING ROOM
Chris Gibson Rec Centre	NO ALTERNATIVE DRESSING ROOM
Earnscliffe Rec Centre	one alternative dressing room
Greenbriar Rec Centre	NO ALTERNATIVE DRESSING ROOM
Jim Archdekin Rec Centre	one alternative dressing room
Memorial Arena	one alternative dressing room
Powerade Centre	one alternative dressing room
South Fletchers Rec Centre	one alternative dressing room
Terry Miller Rec Centre	one alternative dressing room
Vic Park Rec Centre	one alternative dressing room