Manko Waterbird and Wetland Center Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines (updated April 2021)

1. Basic Checklist
□ Staff members must take their temperature and check health condition before commencing work.
□ Staff members must practice hand hygiene properly.
□ Staff members must wear masks.
□ Place hand sanitizers at the entrance and other appropriate places.
□ Announce face mask requirements to visitors.
□ Ensure adequate ventilation.
□ Avoid the “three Cs”: closed space, crowded places, and close-contact settings.

2. Basic Measures to Prevent the Spread of Infection
(1) Measures of Infection Prevention for Visitors
① Measures to avoid the “Three Cs”
* Regarding opening and closure of the facility, follow the request of national and local government according to the COVID-19 alert level:
[Level 1~3] open the facility while ensuring infection prevention.
[Level 4 or case of special request] close the facility temporary.
* Limit the number of visitors as needed to avoid congestion.
* Cut the maximum occupancy of each area in half.
* Ensure adequate ventilation with more than two ventilation openings in each area of the facility.
* In the exhibition room (1st floor), control the number of people and staying time per person as needed.
* Visitors are required to fill in their 1) name, 2) staying time, and 3) contacts when they apply to use the library area (2nd floor).
* Booking in advance is required for group tours and use of the lecture room, and the number of group visitors will be limited if necessary.
※ Maximum occupancy of each area based on the Fire Service Act.

② Measures for Visitors with fever and/or flu-like symptoms.
* Visitors who have fever, cough, headache, and/or other flu-like symptoms are not allowed to enter in principle.
③ Others (Requirements for Cooperation of Infection Prevention to Visitors)
* Visitors are required to wear masks and practice hand hygiene.
* Visitors are not allowed to touch the exhibits and the equipment unnecessary.
* Eating and drinking is not allowed on the terrace (Place chairs spaced apart for resting and drinking water to prevent heat stroke).
* In case of visitors without face coverings, distribute face masks in return for cooperation money.
* Children over 6-year-old are required to wear masks in principle. Those who have respiratory problems, however, are not necessary to wear masks in terms of prevention of heat stroke.
* People who have visited or lived in the endemic areas or countries in the past 14 days are not allowed to enter.

(2) Social Distancing
① Prevention of Contact Transmission
* Staff members must keep physical distance (1.5~2m) from visitors.
* Put away equipment that can be touched by public such as birding scopes for the time being. If the occasion arises, however, staff members must clean and disinfect that equipment as soon as it was returned.
* Practice hand hygiene properly especially after giving and receiving money and items.
② Prevention of Droplet Infection
* Place plastic sheets to provide a barrier between visitors and staff members at the information counter.
* Prohibit the use of drinking fountain in principle.
* Announce to flush the toilet with the lid closed.
* Place acrylic screens on the desk in the study space of the library area (2nd floor).

(3) Ventilation of Facility
* Keep all windows open at any time in principle.
* In the exhibition room (1st floor), keep all smoke exhaust windows open and place an electric fan at the door to ensure adequate ventilation.
* Run air conditioner while providing ventilation in terms of prevention of heat stroke.

(4) Disinfection of Facility and Equipment
* Clean and disinfect frequently touched places and objects such as door handles in the morning and when needed.
* Put away coloring pictures on the 1st floor and wooden jigsaw puzzles on the 2nd floor for the time being.
* Place alcohol-based hand sanitizer at the 2nd floor entrance and urge visitors to sanitize hands before and after their stay.
* Opening hours of the exhibition room (1st floor) and the library area (2nd floor) is from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm for consideration of cleaning and disinfection. Even in the opening hours, however, close these areas temporary when cleaning and disinfection is needed.
* Visitors are required to return books they read at the library area (2nd floor) to staff member. Staff member shelve books after disinfection.

(5) Other Basic Measures against the Spread of Infection
* Practice hand hygiene and gargling frequently, especially after talking to visitors and cleaning and disinfection.
* Wash hands with soap and water and use alcohol-based hand sanitizer when taking off masks and gloves.
* Staff members must immediately report and ask for directions to park ranger when feeling ill or having troubles to deal with.

3. Other Measures based on our own policy
(1) Events
* Birdwalks and other events will be arranged for 10 people and ensured social distancing. However, the number of participants will be arranged according to the events and the coronavirus situation.
* In case of indoor events, especially for the face-to-face group activities, place acrylic screens between participants or take other preventive measures as needed.
* Participants are required to take a temperature on the morning of the event, or are not allowed to participate when feeling ill.
* People who have visited or lived in the endemic areas or countries in the past 14 days are not allowed to participate.
* Participants are required to wear masks. In case of outdoor event, however, wearing masks is not necessary if participants practice social distance properly.
* Events during Summer must be arranged carefully in terms of high risk of heat stroke by wearing masks.
※Planning of events and projects for older adults and children must be well concerned in particular in terms of infection control.
※Take necessary steps to reduce close contact with participants.

(2) Volunteer activities
* Carry out volunteer activities according to the annual action plan while preventing infection.
* Outdoor activities must be arranged in consideration of both infection prevention and volunteers’ physical load: ensure social distancing, shorten hours, etc.
* Volunteers are required to wear masks and practice other preventive actions for infection.
* Volunteers are required to take a temperature on the morning of the activity, or are not allowed to participate when feeling ill.
* People who have visited or lived in the endemic areas or countries in the past 14 days are not allowed to participate.

(3) Others
* Prepare Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines in English to announce and call for public cooperation.
* If a staff member is confirmed to have COVID-19 or had a close contact with a COVID-19 patient, he/she must stay at home according to the direction of the public health center and COVID-19 Infection Control Guideline for Workplace.
※ COVID-19 Infection Control Guideline for Workplace (Japanese Society of Travel and Health and Japanese Society of Occupational Health)
https://plaza.umin.ac.jp/jstah/pdf/corona04.pdf (Japanese)