https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/parks-rec/aquatic-venues.html
Promoting Behaviors that Prevent the Spread of COVID-19
Public aquatic venues can consider different strategies to encourage healthy hygiene, including:
- Hand Hygiene and Respiratory Etiquette
- Encouraging all staff, patrons, and swimmers to wash their hands often and cover their coughs and sneezes.
- Cloth Face Coverings
- Encouraging the use of cloth face coverings as feasible. Face coverings are most essential in times when physical distancing is difficult.
- Advise those wearing face coverings to not wear them in the water. Cloth face coverings can be difficult to breathe through when they’re wet.
- Encouraging the use of cloth face coverings as feasible. Face coverings are most essential in times when physical distancing is difficult.
- Staying Home
- Educating staff, patrons, and swimmers about when to stay home (for example, if they have symptoms of COVID-19, have tested positive for COVID-19, or were exposed to someone with COVID-19 within the last 14 days) and when they can safely end their home isolation.
- Adequate Supplies
- Ensuring adequate supplies to support healthy hygiene. Supplies include 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.
- Signs and Messages
- Posting signs about how to stop the spreadpdf icon of COVID-19, properly wash hands, promote everyday protective measurespdf icon, and properly use a cloth face coveringimage icon in highly visible locations (for example, at deck entrances and at sinks).
- Broadcasting regular announcements about how to stop the spread on PA system.
- Including messages about behaviors that prevent the spread of COVID-19 in contracts with individual patrons or households, in emails, on facility websites (for example, posting online videos), through facility’s social media accounts, and on entrance tickets).
Maintaining Healthy Environments
To maintain healthy environments, operators of public aquatic venues may consider:
- Cleaning and Disinfection
- Cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces at least daily and shared objects each time they are used. For example:
- Handrails, slides, and structures for climbing or playing
- Lounge chairs, tabletops, pool noodles, and kickboards
- Door handles and surfaces of restrooms, handwashing stations, diaper-changing stations, and showers
- Consulting with the company or engineer that designed the aquatic venue to decide which List N disinfectants approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyexternal icon (EPA) are best for your aquatic venue.
- Setting up a system so that furniture (for example, lounge chairs) that needs to be cleaned and disinfected is kept separate from already cleaned and disinfected furniture.
- Labeling containers for used equipment that has not yet been cleaned and disinfected and containers for cleaned and disinfected equipment.
- Laundering towels and clothing according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Use the warmest appropriate water temperature and dry items completely.
- Protecting shared furniture, equipment, towels, and clothing that has been cleaned and disinfected from becoming contaminated before use.
- Ensuring safe and correct use and storage of disinfectants, including storing products securely away from children.
- Cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces at least daily and shared objects each time they are used. For example: