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It’s the middle of a cold, nasty winter, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a significant upswing in the number of children coming down with colds, the flu, and different viruses. The CDC suggests that all facilities—schools, park and recreation centers, etc.—that are used by children take extra precautions and use EPA-registered disinfectants in all restrooms and any common areas used by staff members and children.
This information is conveyed to all park managers, who direct their cleaning staff to step up use of disinfectants. However, even with these efforts, children in the park district are still coming down with a variety of illnesses similar to those reported by the CDC. Your job as park manager is to uncover what could be causing this unhealthy situation to escalate, especially when procedures have been put in place that were intended to solve the problem.
Unfortunately, there is not one specific way to determine the cause in the scenario above. Typically, when working with disinfectants, the problem will be one of the following: