COMBO CAMPS COVID-19 POLICY

In-line with BC Health regulations Kiddy Combo has implemented the following policies:

Access to Camp

Workers, children, parents, and caregivers must not enter the Camp if they have symptoms of COVID-19, have travelled outside of Canada, have been asked to quarantine or have been deemed high risk by public health in the last 14 days.

This policy has been communicated to workers, parents, and caregivers verbally and via signage at entrances to the Camp reminding people not to enter the site if they have symptoms associated with COVID-19.

At drop off, we have implemented a daily “yes/no” verbal confirmation that children do not have symptoms of common cold, influenza, COVID-19, or other respiratory disease. We will not accept a child at drop off if the answer is yes.

Anyone entering the Camp will be subject to a temperature check, and if any irregularities/high temps are registered the person will be asked to leave the Camp immediately.

Workers with symptoms of COVID-19 must be excluded from work, stay home, and self-isolate until they have been assessed by a health care provider to exclude COVID-19 or other infectious disease, and their symptoms have resolved.

In order to limit potential exposure we will also be limiting parents time inside the Camp.

Drop off and Pick up

We will be greeting families outside of the Camp at the registration tent and directing them to their Coach. We ask that parents vacate the premises quickly in order to facilitate social distancing measures.

Staggered drop-off and pick-up times may be used during the busy period and will be communicated to parents when necessary.

Parents and children aged 9+ are asked to wear masks and to practice physical distancing from workers and other children at Drop off and Pick up. Where this is not possible, for example when transferring a young child between a parent and a worker, plan and communicate the work task in advance to ensure that time spent in close proximity is minimized.

Avoid close greetings such as handshakes.

Hand hygiene

Workers are asked to wash their hands/sanitize whenever entering Camp. Hand sanitizer stations are located at all entrances to the Camp. We provide alcohol-based hand sanitizer stations where a sink is not available. Hand sanitizer is supervised and kept out of reach from the children.

Workers should wash their hands regularly throughout the day, including:

• When they arrive at the workplace and before they go home

• Before and after handling food/lunch boxes

• Before and after giving/applying medication or ointment to a child or self

• After assisting a child to use the toilet

• After using the toilet

• After contact with body fluids (e.g., runny noses, spit, vomit, blood)

• After cleaning tasks

• After handling garbage

• Whenever hands are visibly dirty

Workers should support children to wash their hands regularly throughout the day, including:

• When they arrive at the workplace and before they go home

• Before and after eating and drinking

• After using the toilet

• After playing outside

• After sneezing or coughing

• Whenever hands are visibly dirty

Where required education and direction to workers and children to:

• Cough or sneeze into their elbow sleeve or a tissue.

• Throw away used tissues and immediately perform hand hygiene.

• Not touch their eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands.

Physical distancing

Workers should maintain a distance of at least 2 metres from each other. Where this is not possible, for example when transferring a very young child from one worker to another, plan and communicate the work task in advance to ensure that time spent in close proximity is minimized and that masks be worn to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

It is not always possible for workers to maintain physical distance from children, and between children, when in care. Adhere to the principle of physical distancing where possible, by:

• Minimizing the frequency of direct physical contact with children.

• Forming a number of separate play areas in order to space children apart. Note that children who live in the same home do not need to maintain physical distance from each other.

• Creating smaller groups or cohorts of children and keeping these groups separate from each other.

• Minimizing the number of different workers that interact with the same child or group of children.

• Organizing and staggering snack/meal areas to space children apart.

Cleaning

Ask parents and caregivers to only bring personal comfort items (e.g., stuffed animals) if they are clean and laundered at the end of each day.

All unnecessary personal belongings are to be kept outside the Camp in order to reduce surfaces that could become contaminated.

Identify all common areas (e.g., washrooms) and frequently-touched surfaces (e.g., door knobs, cupboard handles, light switches, faucet handles, tables, chairs, toys).

• General cleaning and disinfecting of the workplace should occur at the end of each day.

• Frequently-touched surfaces should be cleaned and disinfected before lunch and at the end of the day.

Toys and objects that children have placed in their mouths should be set aside, for example in a “to be washed” bin, until they are cleaned and disinfected. Toys, objects, and surfaces known to have been in contact with bodily fluids should be cleaned as soon as possible and between uses by different children.

Empty garbage, daily at a minimum.

If a worker or child leaves the workplace due to symptoms of COVID-19, clean areas those individuals were in, including surfaces they may have touched, immediately upon their departure.

Meals and Snacks

Do not allow sharing of food or drink by workers or children.

Lunch should be kept with the child's secondary bag in their allocated basket and collected by the child to reduce the amount of times a worker needs to handle the food. Baskets are sanitized daily for storing lunches. Children should bring their own lunch/snack to the picnic area.

Workers are to remain 6ft away from children and each other when eating.

Transportation

Children aged 9+ are required to wear a mask when boarding the Camp Bus. All other children are encouraged to wear a mask, but this remains a personal choice by their primary caregiver.

Other methods to control risk

Limit sharing of supplies and equipment (e.g., pens, telephone, tablets, computer mouse) between workers.

Provide adequate amounts of high touch materials, such as sports equipment, in order to minimize sharing between children.

Store children’s belongings separately through the use of baskets.

Do not allow sharing of soothers, bottles, sippy cups or other personal items. Label personal items with the child’s name to prevent accidental sharing.