Promote Healthy Hygiene Practices
☐ A. District will teach and reinforce washing hands, avoiding contact with one's eyes, nose, and mouth, and mask coughs and sneezes among students and staff in class. Please see District grade-level appropriate
health modules.
☐ B. The routine for students and staff to regularly wash/sanitize their hands at staggered intervals is as follows:
BEFORE
AFTER
Preparing food (and during food preparation)
Preparing food
Eating
Blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
Touching your face
Touching your face
Using the restroom
Using the restroom
Putting on your face mask
Removing your face mask
Treating a wound
Treating a wound
Changing diapers or caring for someone else
Changing diapers or caring for someone else
Entering a room
Touching an animal, animal feed, or animal waste
Touching garbage
Being in public/coming home from school
Enter a room
☐ C. District provides adequate supplies to support healthy hygiene behaviors, including soap, tissues, no-touch trashcans, face masks, and hand sanitizers with at least 60 percent ethyl alcohol for staff and children who can
safely use hand sanitizer.
☐ D. The school has a sufficient supply of face masks on site (surgical masks, face shields, and N95 when available) as well as protocols on when it should be used.
☐ E. The school has a sufficient supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) (gowns, gloves) on site necessary to protect employees as well as protocols on when it should be used.
☐ F. Site communication to strongly recommend that all students and staff be immunized each autumn against influenza unless contraindicated by personal medical conditions, to help:
i. Protect the school community
ii. Reduce demands on health care facilities
iii. Decrease illnesses that cannot be readily distinguished from COVID-19 and would therefore trigger extensive measures from the school and public health authorities.