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Total Image Beauty Academy Reopening Strategy July 20, 2020

Our institution will implement the following to provide a safe and clean space for our students and staff. First and foremost, our goal is to do our best to try and eliminate the known ways that the virus spreads to reduce the likelihood of infection. Our goal is to provide ideal space for each individual to work and be safe upon our school re-opening July 20th, 2020.

• Our Director, Michael Hechme will be the Covid19 POC.
• Staff and Instructors will receive constant training that comes from the CDC and local and state Gov't.
• Our institution will provide to each student and staff member Face Shields, masks, and gloves. In order to be allowed into the school each individual, students and staff member must be wearing a mask. They can use the face shield once inside but the mask and or face shield must be worn at all times. No exceptions.
• We will have hand sanitizer stations upon entering the building and each floor landing.
• We will also have multiple hand sanitizer pump bottles for student use inside each classroom and clinic as well as at each staff member's desk.
• We have sufficient hand soap dispensers at every sink in the bathrooms and maintenance areas.
• The school internal maintenance crew will clean twice a day. Once in the morning before opening and again before evening classes start. Our personnel will have germ killing solutions and equipment for sanitizing all aspects of the school including all hand touch surfaces such as workstations, classrooms, desks, cabinets, tabletops, mirrors, chalkboards, floors, bathrooms, sinks, stairs, railings, doors, station chairs and shampoo bowls. We have provided for them bleach and detergents.
• Use of shared objects like color tubes, pens, supplies and equipment will be eliminated. Students will be given their supplies by the instructor in portions necessary.
• Our ventilation system will be maintained by changing the filters weekly. We have also placed industrial fans to bring in fresh air from outside. We are scheduled to install an Air Purification System inside our HVAC.
• High risk individuals such as students and staff over 55 years old and individuals with health situations will be advised and guided individually.
• Each instructor will dispense to her student's germ-killing hand wipes for each individual to sanitize their personal workstation and desk. The redundancy of sanitizing will help reduce the spread of any contagion. -Students will be encouraged and reminded frequently of the importance of washing hands for 20 seconds, to avoid touching their face, and coughing or sneezing into their elbows.
• Signs will be posted in English and Spanish in all areas of the school with information such as this. Information for local testing centers will be posted. In class reminders will be exhaustedly repeated daily.
• Our institution will implement a combination of in school instruction and Online Distance Education (if NJ State Board Approves) upon return to the brick and mortar school. This will help reduce the amount of people in the school to best follow Social Distancing standards. We will have only half the students in the school at any one time. One half will be home on line with the class and instructor doing Distance Education while the other half will be physically in school with their class and instructor performing practical exercises. This way we reduce the frequency of interaction and proximity of each other inside the school.
• In school and inside each class, students will be 6 feet away from each other performing at their individual station. There will be no free walking around. Students will need to call out when they need to move outside their work station and with the instructors watching and classmate's knowledge. Desks will be faced away from facing each other.
• In the clinic area for our Seniors students the same holds true. Work stations will be separated 6 feet apart and students will be restricted from freely interacting. Our instructors will oversee this implantation.
• There will be plexiglass barriers between each shampoo bowl and pedicure bowl. Also for our staff plexiglass barriers are placed on top of their desks.
• Floor marks will be placed on the floor in the office areas for students to distance each other.
• The lunch areas are closed for the foreseeable future. Students will be encouraged to eat their lunch outdoors.
• Upon entering the school each student will have their temperature checked by their instructor using a thermometer. Each students temp will be marked down next to their name on the attendance sheet.
• Same applies to staff which will be handled by the Director.
• Students and staff will be told to stay home if they feel sick.
• Our clinic will be closed for the foreseeable future. No services will be performed on the public and students will not be allowed to practice on each other. All practice and practical work will be performed on each individual students' mannequin.
• When the school is given the clearance to re-open the clinic to the public by the State Board, we will have sufficient oversight by our instructor staff.

We believe these measures will be helpful in minimizing the spread of the virus in our facility.