The Houston Texans are exploring how the team will tackle maintaining its facilities amid the COVID-19 outbreak once players and staff are permitted back, and the entire process will be overseen by someone with the title of facilities hygiene coordinator.
This staffer, according to a Sports Business Journal report, will be tasked with running “coronavirus risk mitigation,” and the assignment is believed to be the “first known case of a major U.S. pro sports team hiring a dedicated industrial hygiene expert.”
Details of the Texans’ plans were laid out by executive vice president of football operations Jack Easterby, who described the ideal candidate as someone who will “wake up each morning and go to bed each night thinking about the cleanliness of the facility.”
The facilities hygiene coordinator, upon his or her hiring, will ultimately report to Special Advisor for Medical Administration Geoff Kaplan.
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Originally posted on Sportress of Blogitude By Jason Rowan | Last updated 5/5/20
