03/12/2020
To our families and friends at Next Level Fitness & Martial Arts:
You may be feeling concerned about the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, that has been in the news. If so, you are not alone. We at NLF want to let you know we are proactive in making sure our environment is as safe as is possible for you and your family. Here are some specific measures we are taking:
- If a staff member or instructor is feeling under the weather, we tell them to stay home and rest. We don't want them to feel pressured to come in when not feeling well.
- If a studio member was out of school or work sick, please don't come to class that day or until the illness has passed. This is our standard policy - but in the current environment, it's even more important. If we see that a child appears to be under the weather or feels warm to the touch, we'll ask you to take them home. If you're out because you're sick, we'll help you make it up with a complimentary training class or two when you return.
- The studio is cleaned on a daily basis. We have chosen to implement some extra preventive measures (double cleaning) when cleaning and disinfecting everything our friends and families come in contact with such as benches, faucets, toilets, paper towel dispensers and more. We use Clorox Wipes and Lysol Spray on touch surfaces, and a special anti-viral / anti-fungal cleaner on all mats and gear. We're doing extra cleaning on the benches, before, between and after classes.
- Our team will perform extra duty tasks where common hand contact occurs during operating hours, especially between classes such as wiping down and disinfecting doorknobs, handles, faucets, and toilet operating arms.
- Recently, we also have hand sanitizer pump bottles placed around the school so that we could have them close to where we needed them. We're strongly encouraging the use of hand sanitizer more frequently to all students and to parents and family members. especially before and after classes.
- Disinfecting wipes will be conveniently located throughout our facility for you to wipe down your phones, tablets, computers, sparring gear, and whatever else you need.
- We will be doing fist-bumps, not handshakes or high-fives and will be greeting people without contact to make the environment even safer. Fist-bumps will be reserved for the interior of the studio, after hand sanitizer has been applied.
Here are things you can do to help support us in offering the safest environment possible.
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
- Wash your hands with soap and water regularly while singing the A,B,C’s, and use hand sanitizer as often as you feel it's needed.
- Try not to touch your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
- Please stay home when you are sick or show any signs of not feeling well. Remember, we have a great makeup class policy for you to keep up.
- Cough or sneeze into a tissue or your elbow. If you use a tissue, wash your hands afterwards.
- Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces that you bring into Next Level with the disinfecting wipes we have throughout the school.
NLF was one of the first businesses in our area to issue a Coronavirus policy. Most haven't done it yet, and many large organizations are a week or more behind us. It's important that our members and their families understand how seriously we're taking this - and that our goal is to make sure that the studio is the cleanest and safest place in town for you and your family.
Please feel free to reach out if have any questions or suggestions.
