PDE Health and Safety Plan Requirements
Plan must include the following:
Guidelines for hygiene practices for students and staff which include the manner and frequency of hand-washing and other best practices.
PDE Considerations
Teach and reinforce washing hands and covering coughs and sneezes among students and staff.
Post signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, such as properly washing hands, promote everyday protective measures, and properly wear a face covering.
Ensure communications are in common languages spoken at school and easily understandable for children and adults.
Work with health departments and local health care systems to disseminate hygiene and disinfection strategies for transmission prevention at home.
Purchase adequate supplies, and carefully monitor inventory, to support healthy hygiene behaviors, including soap, hand sanitizer with at least 60 percent alcohol, paper towels, tissues, and no-touch trash cans. (See Pennsylvania COVID-19 PPE & Supplies Business-2-Business (B2B) Interchange Directory.)
NEPA Task Force Considerations
Have adequate supplies to support healthy hygiene behaviors, including soap, hand sanitizer with at least 60 percent alcohol (for staff and older children who can safely use hand sanitizer), paper towels, tissues, and no-touch trash cans. Consider encouraging hand-washing at regular intervals during the day to include but not limited to: when students/staff arrive and dismiss, before eating, restroom use, etc.
Teach and reinforce use of face coverings (dependent upon current guidance). Consider a procedure if a student/staff refuses or is not able to wear a face covering.
Post signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, properly wash hands, promote everyday protective measures, and properly wear a face covering.
Consider plans to protect most vulnerable populations. (students/staff with pre-existing medical conditions, medically fragile and/or special health care needs).
PDE Health and Safety Plan Requirements
Plan may also include the following to the extent possible:
Guidelines for hygiene practices for students and staff.
PDE Considerations
Teach and reinforce washing hands and covering coughs and sneezes among students and staff.
Post signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, such as properly washing hands, promote everyday protective measures, and properly wear a face covering.
Ensure communications are in common languages spoken at school and easily understandable for children and adults.
Work with health departments and local health care systems to disseminate hygiene and disinfection strategies for transmission prevention at home.
Purchase adequate supplies, and carefully monitor inventory, to support healthy hygiene behaviors, including soap, hand sanitizer with at least 60 percent alcohol, paper towels, tissues, and no-touch trash cans. (See Pennsylvania COVID-19 PPE & Supplies Business-2-Business (B2B) Interchange Directory.)
NEPA Task Force Considerations
Have adequate supplies to support healthy hygiene behaviors, including soap, hand sanitizer with at least 60 percent alcohol (for staff and older children who can safely use hand sanitizer), paper towels, tissues, and no-touch trash cans. Consider encouraging hand-washing at regular intervals during the day to include but not limited to: when students/staff arrive and dismiss, before eating, restroom use, etc.
Teach and reinforce use of face coverings (dependent upon current guidance). Consider a procedure if a student/staff refuses or is not able to wear a face covering.
Post signs on how to stop the spread of COVID-19, properly wash hands, promote everyday protective measures, and properly wear a face covering.
Consider plans to protect most vulnerable populations. (students/staff with pre-existing medical conditions, medically fragile and/or special health care needs).