(Updated: 07/22/20 in NMSU Ready)
Detailed
guidelines for cleaning are available on the ESH&RM website. That site includes cleaning procedures, information on the
process to clean after a positive case is reported, and recommended
disinfectants. Our Facilities & Services custodial team has revised their schedules to increase custodial coverage and to have staff on campus during classes. Custodial team schedules will be adjusted, if needed, after classroom use schedules are finalized. Custodial teams will emphasize sanitizing shared spaces on a daily basis in the academic buildings:
- Clean and sanitize classrooms
- Clean and sanitize computer labs
- Clean and sanitize restrooms
- Clean building entryways, break rooms, elevators, conference rooms, and common areas.
Some tasks will be reduced to allow custodial resources to focus on sanitizing high-use areas. Custodial team performs the following tasks on a weekly basis in the academic buildings:
- Remove trash and recyclable materials from departmental offices
- Vacuum and dust surfaces without moving items in departmental offices
- Clean hard surface floors weekly
- Vacuum and carpet spot removal weekly
As we move forward with resuming some in-person instruction, the custodial team may modify weekly tasks to accommodate increased daily task cleaning. In non-academic buildings, the custodial team will adapt their cleaning schedule and frequency to adjust for reduced building occupancy. Schedule changes will be communicated to the building monitors. Custodial teams will perform the following tasks on in the non-academic buildings after the occupancy load is verified:
- Clean and sanitize occupied departmental offices
- Clean and sanitize training or computer rooms
- Clean and sanitize restrooms
- Clean building entryways, break rooms, elevators, conference rooms, and common areas
- Empty trash receptacles in common areas and break rooms
- Remove trash and recyclable materials from departmental offices
- Vacuum and dust surfaces without moving items in occupied departmental offices
- Clean hard surface floors weekly
- Vacuum and spot removal weekly
Facilities & Services will update the cleaning protocol document regularly as additional departments reopen and communicate updates with building monitors and campus community.