Campus community protective equipment
by UAA Environmental Health and Safety & Risk Management Support |
UAA Environmental Health and Safety & Risk Management Support (EHS) and Facilities departments have been working to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our campus community. Great effort has been made to thoroughly clean and disinfect all touch-points in campus buildings. We are also providing community protective equipment, such as hand sanitizer at building entrances and supplies for disinfecting in classrooms, as well as ensuring all soap dispensers for handwashing are working and filled.
To help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, we encourage our campus community members to use hand sanitizer upon entering or leaving a building. While in buildings, we are asking people to wash their hands as needed in sinks where handwashing supplies are available. We are asking this for two reasons:
- The CDC recommends proper and thorough hand washing with soap and running water for at least 20 seconds as the best way to remove and destroy bacteria and viruses that may be present on your hands, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
- Hand sanitizer is in great demand and the supply is very limited at this time.
Facilities and ABM will continue to provide touch-point and general building cleaning, replacement of hand soap at sinks and hand sanitizer at building entrances, and disinfecting supplies to classrooms approved for use.
As part of the COVID-19 response, EHS has procured a limited supply of community protective items which are intended to ensure our campus community has adequate protective equipment to begin the semester. Due to supply chain limitations, EHSRMS cannot guarantee the availability of these items.
Contact EHS at uaa_ehsrms@alaska.edu if you have a need or concern regarding the protection of our campus community.
"Campus community protective equipment" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.