Environmental Safety
These cannot be hanging, cannot be exposed, and must always be taped and covered.
What are electrical cords?
This ratio is the Athena policy in a Tots classroom.
What is 9:1?
These are the steps you should take if a head bump, face or head wound, or bite occurs with a child in your care.
What is call the office, contact the parents, and take a photo?
This is the required temperature at which all refrigerators must be kept.
What is 41 degrees or lower?
When you hear the fire drill bells, you must do this.
What is evacuate all of the children to the parking lot calmly and quickly?
This needs to be at an adequate level to ensure you don't step on a sleeping child.
What is lighting?
This ratio is the Athena policy in a Primary classroom when the youngest child is three years old.
What is 15:1?
This report is required when a child needs to seek medical attention for something that occurred while in our care.
What is an incident report?
This is the four step process for sanitizing.
What is: 1. Wash with soap and water; 2. Rinse with clean water; 3. Soak in or spray on a disinfecting solution for at least two minutes; and 4. Allow the surface or item to air-dry?
In this quarterly drill, you must talk to your children about how you will keep them safe, and where you would go in your classroom should this environmental emergency event occur.
What is a severe weather drill?
These must always be covered.
What are electrical outlets?
This ratio is the Athena policy in a Primary classroom when not every child has yet turned three.
What is 11:1?
This is how many feet of clearance are needed, obstruction free, around the perimeter of playground equipment, and how many inches of mulch must be under a fall zone.
What are six feet and nine inches?
This is how all food in your refrigerator needs to be stored once it is opened.
What is covered?
This is what must be posted in your classroom to help you with guidelines for safety.
What are the Emergency Evacuation Plan and Emergency Preparedness Plan?
In order to ensure proper visual supervision at all times, you must be aware of these areas in your environment.
What are blind spots?
This is where an adult must be while supervising children on the L-shaped slide playground.
What is west of the wall?
This report is required any time something happens to a child that the parents need to know about, such as a fall or bite that may leave a (physical or emotional) mark on a child.
What is an accident report?
When serving food family style, it is very important to prevent this from happening.
What is cross contamination?
This is the drill you must conduct to practice for a volatile or endangering person on campus four times per year.
What is a lock-down drill?
This is what you should always do when you find a safety hazard in any environment.
What is send a picture to admin?
You must always know the ages of these two children in your care.
Who are the oldest and youngest?
This is the number of minutes after a child's first dose of epinephrine that you can administer a second dose.
What is 10-15 minutes?
This is what an adult must maintain when the children in their care are eating.
What is supervision?
These are the items that at least one teacher must have on their person in the case of an emergency evacuation.
What are a go bag and a smartphone with the Brightwheel app?