OVID 19 INFORMATION<

COVID 19 INFORMATION

HPI Will for your the safety of student staff and visitors

• Provide adequate equipment and supplies for staff and students to wash and sanitize hands periodically.
• Place stations with hand sanitizer with 60 percent or more alcohol content at all building entry points and throughout the facility.
• Provide students and staff adequate break time to wash hands regularly.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Provide training for students regarding COVID-19, including topic such as sanitization, hand hygiene, and social distancing practices and protocols as a condition for resuming in-person instruction.
• Provide training for faculty and staff on appropriate sanitization, hygiene and social distancing standards, and regarding the school’s restart plan protocols.
• Display CDC hand hygiene posters and other “How to Protect Yourself and Others” materials in English, Spanish, and other languages as needed.

VENTILATION

• Consider methods to get fresh air to individuals and properly utilize ventilation system.
  
  Some ways to do so include: ‒ Maximizing fresh air through your ventilation system;
  • Maintaining relative humidity at 40 to 60 percent
  • Ensuring restrooms are under negative pressure
  • Asking a HVAC professional and reviewing American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) updates for more information
  • Considering the use of portable HEPA filtration units
• Require all faculty, staff, students, and visitors to wear cloth face coverings except where doing so would inhibit the individual’s health.
• Provide information to staff and students on proper use, removal, and washing of cloth face coverings.
• Please refer to the CDC’s guidance on Childcare, Schools, and Youth Programs for additional information on face coverings.

CLEANING AND DISINFECTION

• Clean and disinfect classrooms and common areas after each usage.
• Disinfect high-touch areas like desktops, light switches, doorknobs, etc. periodically throughout the day.
• Provide top-to-bottom cleaning of the facility at least daily.
• Refer to the CDC’s Reopening Guidance for Cleaning and Disinfecting Public Spaces, Workspaces, Businesses, Schools, and Homes for additional information on cleaning and disinfection.
• When an individual is suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19, private career school is to close off areas visited by the ill person, open outside doors and windows and use ventilating fans to increase circulation in the area, and wait 24 hours or as long as practical (during which time the facility should not be open to students or staff), and then conduct cleaning and disinfection as directed by the CDC

HAND HYGIENE

• Maintain adequate equipment and supplies for staff and students to wash and sanitize hands periodically.
• Place stations with hand sanitizer with 60 percent or more alcohol content at all building entry points and throughout the facility.
• Provide students and staff adequate break time to wash hands regularly.

HAND HYGIENE

• Maintain adequate equipment and supplies for staff and students to wash and sanitize hands periodically.
• Place stations with hand sanitizer with 60 percent or more alcohol content at all building entry points and throughout the facility.
• Provide students and staff adequate break time to wash hands regularly.

COLLABORATION WITH HEALTH OFFICIALS

• Collaborate with local and State officials, including local health departments and local office of emergency management to share reopening plans and revise those plans as necessary
• Establish testing guidance and contact tracing protocols in consultation with local health officials and in line with existing State and federal health privacy statutes and regulations, at minimum, such protocols should include

SPECIAL GUIDANCE FOR LABS, TECHNICAL, AND CLINICAL PROGRAMS

• Private career schools with labs, technical, and clinical programs should observe the CDC and NJDOH public health standards for personal protective equipment (masks or face shields as appropriate), physical distancing, sanitizing equipment, hand-washing, cleaning and disinfection, and exclusion of individuals with symptoms or a positive diagnosis of COVID-19.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• The Road Back: Restoring Economic Health Through Public Health
• Establish testing guidance and contact tracing protocols in consultation with local health officials and in line with existing State and federal health privacy statutes and regulations, at minimum, such protocols should include
• State of New Jersey: COVID-19 Information Hub
• Center for Disease Control: Social Distancing Guidance
• New Jersey Department of Health: Information for Communities and the General Public
• New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) Local Public Health Directory
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Testing for COVID-19
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Symptom Checker
• New Jersey Department of Health: COVID-19 Information for Schools
• State of New Jersey: Executiv