Facilities

• Issue updated guidance to schools on infection control relative to alert level
• Implement ongoing facility access control: 

• • Visitors should be required to report through a single access point as standard school safety procedures remain critical.
  • After-school egress and exit points may be opened based on the current pandemic alert level and in concert with local health official recommendations.

• Maintain infection control procedures based on current pandemic alert level and public health guidance:

• • At a minimum, school nurses should wear surgical masks and maintain six feet of distance from potentially infected staff or students.
  • If close contact is required, N95 respirators and contact gowns should be used if available to help minimize any spread of disease.
• Contact information for local health departments.

Continual audit of necessary materials and supply chain for cleaning, disinfecting, and preventing spread of disease.

• Provide guidance for cleaning and disinfecting all core assets, including school buildings and playgrounds commensurate with the alert level when school resumes.  Convene janitorial and facilities staff monthly to review and make adjustments to district guidance regarding cleaning and disinfection.
• Alert school-based janitorial and infection control staff of any changes in recommended cleaning guidelines issued by OSHA and CDC. It is expected that this guidance will be updated in real-time based on circulating levels of the virus in local geographies.

• Establish daily procedures for school based on alert level: Guidance for school procedures must be based on recommendations by the CDC and local health officials. These recommendations will be based on community risk.
  • Limit access to a small number of fixed entrances to ensure that persons entering are required to be present.
  • Where possible, parents of young children should remain in vehicles or outside of the building where their students will be brought to them.
  • If parents must enter the building, require hand washing.
  • Any person with cough or respiratory symptoms should wear a mask and maintain current social distancing guidelines.
  • Air filters should be changed regularly.
  • Janitorial services should distribute wastebaskets, tissues, and CDC approved soap to every office and classroom so that these materials can be used upon entry and exit into any discrete location and during transit between sites.
  • Signage about frequent handwashing, cough etiquette, and nose blowing should be widely posted, disseminated, and encouraged through various methods of communication.
  • Janitorial staff should follow guidance from the CDC about the use of face masks and special respirators at use when performing cleaning duties.

• Issue updated guidance to schools on infection control relative to alert level.

• Implement ongoing facility access control: 
  • Visitors should still be required to report through a single access point as standard school safety procedures remain critical.
  • After-school egress and exit points may be opened based on the pandemic alert level and in concert with local health official recommendations.
• Maintain infection control procedures based on pandemic alert level and public health guidance:
  • At a minimum, school nurses should don surgical masks and maintain six feet of distance from potentially infected staff or students.
  • If closer contact is required, N95 respirators and contact gowns should be used if available to help minimize any spread of disease to nursing staff.