- Lake Oswego School District
- Safety & Wellness Preventative Measures
Health and Safety Protocols
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Distancing
- Six foot distancing between occupants.
- Classrooms will accommodate 35sq ft per student
- Desks will be set up and locations marked to achieve distancing
- Maximum occupant notices will be posted in common areas
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Face coverings, PPE, plexiglass
- The district has/will provide a clear face shield and a cloth face mask for all staff
- Disposable masks will be available in offices for staff and students if masks are forgotten
- Non latex gloves will be available for use at all health rooms and replenished as needed
- Plexiglass
- Plexiglass sneeze guards will be installed at all transaction counters in offices
- Plexiglass dividers will be installed in rooms using shared tables
- Plexiglass dividers in office areas between occupants unable to maintain 6 ft distancing
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Hand washing and sanitizers
- Most of our classrooms have sinks and will have hand soap and paper towels available, all classrooms will have hand sanitizer dispensers
- Sanitizer dispensers will be located at all entrances, common areas, offices, at stairs both top and bottom, and strategically throughout the facilities
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Cleaning protocols
- Products and equipment
- Electrostatic disinfectant equipment will be available at each facility. This equipment will allow custodial staff to rapidly clean areas of the building with full coverage of all surfaces. Our staff is trained to use the equipment
- Disinfectant spray will be available in every classroom along with microfiber cloth rags for application
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Cohorts & contact tracing
- Cohort groups will be identified
- Logs will be kept for each cohort group if information is needed by Clackamas County Public Health for contact tracing due to a COVID-19 exposure
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Air Flow - building mechanical equipment
- Building air purging will occur prior to occupying each day and during morning/afternoon transition, this process schedules our mechanical equipment to activate and bring in outside air.
- Building automation systems have been modified to bring in higher volumes of fresh outside air into occupied spaces. Building exhaust systems have also been programmed to increase exhaust and maintain constant exhaust.
- Occupants are still encouraged to open windows to provide additional outside air.
- Building mechanical systems have been enhanced with ionization devices throughout the district. The technology produces a high concentration of positive and negative ions into the space. Within the air stream, ions attach to particles, where they combine, become larger and are more easily filtered from the air. When ions come in contact with pathogens, they disrupt the pathogens’ surface proteins, rendering them inactive. Through the needlepoint bipolar ionization or NPBI® technology, clean indoor air is delivered — producing neither ozone nor other harmful byproducts.
- Stand alone HEPA filtration units have been installed in all of our health rooms.
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Wellness monitoring and response
- Signs of illness screening for students:
- Parent screening of student signs of illness before students are sent or brought to school
- Visual screening of student signs of illness by bus driver
- Visual screening of student signs of illness by school staff as students enter the building
- Visual screening of student signs of illness by teachers or other school staff during attendance in the classroom
- Signs of illness screening for staff: Staff will fill out Health
Screening form every day, and every building if they visit multiple buildings - Any individual who feels that they are unwell, or if they have signs of illness will be referred to the school office for a more in-depth screening. Thermometers are available for any individual who requests or requires a temperature screening
- Individuals who have the primary symptoms of COVID-19, or any other communicable disease symptoms will be sent home
- Signs of illness screening for students:
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Restricted visitors and volunteers
- Main building use will be generally limited to Staff and students
- Hands free intercoms have been installed at all of our entry vestibules allowing hands free interaction with office staff
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Signage
- Signage installed at all facilities establishing safe distancing.
- Corridors: Directional arrows in our corridors separating directions and placed appropriately every 25’. Keep your distance reminders placed appropriately every 50’. “Hand sanitizer available here” at common area sanitizer stations
- Entrances: multi lingual OHA approved signage, social distancing reminders and distance markings in vestibules. Signage restricting access to main building areas “staff and students beyond this point only”
- Classrooms: hand washing and sanitizing reminders, desk markings, social distancing reminders
- Common areas: Spacing dots in waiting or queuing areas
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COVID-19 Testing Near You
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Covid-19 Case or Outbreak Response Protocol