The Near North District School Board gave a rundown Friday of the enhanced infection prevention measures it has been applying to all NNDSB buildings.
Deb Lamb, an NNDSB facilities supervisor says custodians are frequently cleaning high-touch and high traffic areas in their buildings, in addition to increasing the concentration of cleaning disinfectant solutions.
Lamb added, “We’ve really upped the disinfectant. We have peroxide disinfectant that we use on door handles, walls, push plates, push bars, light switches, desks, sinks, taps, toilets, stalls.”
According to NNDSB, compared to other school boards and regions in Ontario, the number of COVID-19 cases in NNDSB schools has been very low partially due to the outstanding job the custodians are doing each day.
As additional prevention measures, each NNDSB school has hand sanitizer located at every entrance and exit. When students enter the building in the morning and after recess, staff ensure students are wearing their masks and sanitizing their hands.
The board says its schools have appropriately placed directional arrows on the floor to ensure a safe and physically distanced traffic flow.
And even though students and staff should not attend school when they are not feeling well, schools do have an isolation area if people become unwell during the day.
When that area has been occupied, it is immediately rendered unusable until a thorough cleaning has taken place, including the walls.
In the event of a positive case in the school community, more custodians are brought to that school to help with a thorough sanitization of the building, which includes washing down every chair and every desk in the affected room, washing all washrooms from top to bottom and all touchpoints are sanitized.