Inspection
• Maintain physical distancing, to the extent possible.
• Provide and require employees and customers to wear masks when possible.
• Provide access to soap and water for handwashing or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer at stations around the casino for use by employees and clients. Require employees to regularly wash hands for at least 20 seconds.
• Operate with reduced occupancy with special attention to limiting areas where customers and employees can congregate.
• Consider spacing out slot machines and tables and spacing out chairs to provide physical distancing between customers.
• Wipe any pens, stampers, counters, electronic gaming devices and other hard surfaces between use or customer.
• Bingo players should be encouraged to bring their own stampers or consider single use stampers.
• Implement comprehensive cleaning and sanitation protocols, focusing on high touch areas.
• All slot machines, tables and kiosks should be cleaned and disinfected on a regular schedule.
• Consider placing disinfecting wipes at slot machines, tables, and kiosks and encourage customers to wipe equipment (handles, buttons, trays, seats, etc) down before they start and after they finish playing.
• Implement symptom screening for employees prior to the start of their shift.
• Consider posting signs advising customers and employees of expectations and guidance.
• Restaurants within casinos should follow the restaurant guidance provided by the Arizona Department of Health Services and the CDC, including avoiding instances where customers serve their own food.
• Theaters/show venues within casinos should follow the theater guidance provided by the Arizona Department of Health Services and the CDC.
• Drink attendants should wash hands after picking up used glasses and should avoid picking up used glasses while serving customers.
• Train all employees in the above safety actions.
• For Active Game tables:
• An active game table should operate between two closed tables, where possible
• Consider limiting the number of people at a table, with unoccupied seats in between.
• Do not allow non-playing customers to cluster or stand at the table or behind seated players.
• Limit community sharing or passing items, such as chips, tiles, etc.
• Provide hand sanitizer on tables of hand dealt games, or consider requirin players and dealers to use gloves and require glove changes /use of hand sanitizer in between hands or rounds.
• Consider changing cards and chips as frequently as possible.
• Consider symptom screening of dealers and customers before participating in active table games. For poker, bingo or other specific game rooms, limit the capacity of the room to ensure appropriate physical distancing or consider closing the rooms to gaming.
