Fire Protection 418-1.4 & Safety 418-1.5
These must be conducted at least monthly during various hours of operation of the child day care center
What is Evacuation Drills? 418-1.4(b)(1)
This is required daily for all children in care, except during inclement or extreme weather or unless otherwise ordered by a health care provider.
What is supervised outdoor play? 418-1.7(k)
Children cannot be left without this at any time.
What is competent supervision? 418-1.8(a)
A facility's behavior management plan must include these three things.
What is how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors? 418-1.9(a)
This beverage must be available to children at all times and must be offered at intervals that are responsive to the needs of the individual children.
What is safe drinking water? 418-1.12(l)
The Emergency Evacuation Diagrams must be posted here.
What is in a conspicuous place in every room. 418-1.5(b)(1)
Children unable to sleep during naptime shall not be confined to a sleeping surface (cot, crib, etc.) but instead must be offered this.
What is a supervised place for quiet play? 418-1.7(w)
The use of mobile phones is permitted as necessary to promote and ensure these 2 things.
What is to promote the children’s safety and ensuring the orderly operation of the program? 418-1.8(n)
Methods of discipline, interaction, or toilet training which do any of these three things are prohibited.
What is frighten, demean, or humiliate a child? 418-1.9(m)
Staff and volunteers must do this at the beginning of each day, before and after the administration of medications, when they are dirty, after toileting or assisting children with toileting, after changing a diaper, before and after food handling or eating, after handling pets or other animals, after contact with any bodily secretion or fluid, and after coming in from outdoors.
What is thoroughly wash their hands with soap and running water? 418-1.11(i)(1)
These must be posted conspicuously on or next all center telephones.
What is 911 and the Poison control phone number? 418-1.5(m)(2)
If used, this must be part of a planned developmentally appropriate program with an educational, social, physical or other learning objective that includes identified goals and objectives and must not be used solely to occupy time.
What is television or other electronic visual media? 418-1.7(h)
This is defined as including awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child.
What is competent supervision? 418-1.8(a)
Any behavior management used must promote this.
What is self-esteem? 418-1.9(d)
Each staff person and volunteer must complete a minimum of this many hours of training every two years.
What is thirty? 418-1.14(c)
Materials and play equipment used by the children must be these.
What is sturdy and free from rough edges and sharp corners. 418-1.5(n)(1)
As age and development permit, children must be allowed this and must be provided with environment designed to develop such skills as crawling, standing, walking and running.
What is freedom of movement? 418-1.7(d)
Each day care center shall require any and all visitors to the facility to do this upon entry and exit of the facility.
What is sign in and sign out? 418-1.8 (q)(1)(i) & (iv)
The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children do this.
What is solve problems? 418-1.9(b)
These may be used with children over the age of two years only when soap and running water is not available and hands are visibly soiled?
What are individual wipes may be used in combination with hand sanitizer? 418-1.11(4) & 4181.11(4)(i-ii)
Before practicing a Shelter in Place drill, notifications must be made to these two groups.
What are authorities and the children's parents? 418-1.4(b)(3)(vii)
Children must be provided these three types of initiated activities which are intellectually stimulating and foster self-reliance and social responsibility.
What is self-initiated, group-initiated, and teacher-initiated? 418-417(f)
A child can only be released to his or her parent, a person(s) currently designated in writing by such parent to receive the child, or this person.
What is another person authorized by law to take custody of a child? 418.1.8(p)(1)
Restraint that includes the act of using force to extremely limit a child’s body movements for a lengthy period of time. It involves holding a child against his/her will and putting pressure on the child’s chest and/or extremities in an effort to significantly restrict his/her movement, thereby making it extremely difficult for a child to move. It may also involve holding a child flat on the ground and restricting his/her body from movement.
What is physical restraint? 418-1.9(h)
These two "groups" must be immediately notified if a child is involved in any of the following: death, serious incident, serious injury, serious condition, communicable disease, or transportation to hospital.
What is the parent(s) and OCFS? 418-1.15(14)(i-vi)