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VSP 2018 Operations Manual

Immediate contact: Someone sharing a cabin either full-time or part-time or
sharing a cabin’s bathroom facilities. This includes boyfriends, girlfriends,
spouses, and significant others.

Imminent health hazard: A significant threat or danger to health that is
considered to exist when evidence is sufficient to show that a product, practice,
circumstance, or event creates a situation that requires immediate correction or
cessation of operation to prevent injury.

Injected meats: Manipulating MEAT so that infectious or toxigenic
microoganisms may be introduced from its surface to its interior through
tenderizing with deep penetration or injecting the MEAT such as with juices,
which may be referred to as injecting, pinning, or stitch pumping. This does not
include routine temperature monitoring.

Integrated pest management (IPM): A documented, organized system of
controlling pests through a combination of methods including inspections, baits,
traps, effective sanitation and maintenance, and judicious use of chemical
compounds.

Interactive recreational water facility: An indoor or outdoor recreational water
facility that includes misting, jetting, waterfalls, or sprinkling features that involve
water recirculation systems that come into contact with bathers. Additional
features or facilities, such as decorations or fountains, will designate the facility as
an interactive RWF if there is any piping connected through the recirculation
system. These facilities may be zero depth. Fully or partially enclosed water slides
are considered interactive recreational water facilities.

Isolation: The separation of persons who have a specific infectious illness from
those who are healthy and the restriction of ill persons’ movement to stop the
spread of that illness. For VSP’s purposes, isolation for passengers with AGE
symptoms is advised and isolation for crew with AGE symptoms is required.

Kitchenware: FOOD preparation and storage UTENSILS.

Law: Applicable local, state, federal, or other equivalent international statutes,
regulations, and ordinances.

Linens: Fabric items such as cloth hampers, cloth napkins, tablecloths, wiping
cloths, and work garments including cloth gloves.

Making way: Progressing through the water by mechanical or wind power.

Meat: The flesh of animals used as FOOD including the dressed flesh of cattle,
swine, sheep, or goats and other edible animals, except FISH, POULTRY, and
wild GAME ANIMALS.

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