Covid-19 Precautions

Physical Distancing

Urban STEAM Lab will:

  • Ensure that their employees maintain a distance of at least six feet from other employees at all times, unless safety or the core activity requires a shorter distance.

  • Ensure that employee and children/camper groupings are as static as possible by having the same group of children/campers stay with the same staff whenever and wherever possible. Group size must be limited to no more than fifteen (15) children or campers.

  • Modify the use and/or restrict the number of work areas and seating areas for their employees and children, so that individuals are at least six feet apart in all directions (e.g. side-to-side and when facing one another) and are not sharing work areas without cleaning and disinfection between use.

  • Ensure signs are posted throughout the site consistent with DOH COVID-19 sinage.

  • Prioritize activities that maximize social distancing and with little or no physical contact.

Personal Protective Equipment

Urban STEAM Lab will:

  • Provide face coverings to employees at no cost to the employee. Employees are able to wear their own face covering if preferred.

  • Put in place measures to limit the sharing of objects.

  • Ensure employees are trained to properly put on, take off, clean, and discard PPE.

  • Provide disposable face coverings for children and staff in the event their face covering breaks, becomes dirty, or is unable to be worn correctly for any reason.

  • Require children to wear a face covering at all times of the day unless they are eating or outside and able to maintain 6 feet of distance between each other.

  • Ensure that employees wear face coverings at all times when interacting with children or campers, regardless of the distance between the employee and children/campers.

Hygiene, Cleaning, and Disinfection

Urban STEAM Lab will:

  • Require children and staff to practice hand hygiene upon arrival to the site, between all program activities, after using the restroom, before eating, and before departing the site.

  • Conduct regular cleaning and disinfectant of the site and more frequent cleaning of high-risk areas.

  • Disinfect desks and shared supplies/objects during every program activity transition.

  • Clean and disinfect restroom at least twice daily.

  • Clean and disinfect equipment and toys at least twice daily.

Screening and Testing

Urban STEAM Lab will:

  • Instruct staff to stay home if they are sick and remind parents/guardians to keep sick children home.

  • Implement mandatory daily health screening practices of their employees, visitors, and children attending the program.

  • Require employees and parents/guardians to immediately disclose if they or their children are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19

  • Prohibit anyone displaying symptoms of COVID-19 from entering the site.

  • Ensure that any staff or child that becomes symptomatic for COVID-19 and/or tests positive for COVID-19 will not be allowed back on the site until their quarantine is complete.