Safety
True or False: You can leave your personal belongings (purse, backpack, etc) out, as long as there are no choking hazards or dangerous items inside.
What is False?
Regulation: 418 - 1.5 (aa) pg. 16
The following items must be used and stored in such a manner that they are not accessible to children: Handbags, backpacks, or briefcases belonging to adults; plastic bags; and toys and objects small enough for young children to swallow.
These two activities are performed as soon as a child enters the classroom.
What is hand washing and Daily Health Check?
What must be provided for each child during a rest period?
418-1.3(a)(1)(e) A firm clean crib, cot, bed or washable padded mat of age appropriate size and
construction must be provided for all children requiring a rest period
Children cannot be left without _______ _______. This includes an awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child.
What is Competent Supervision?
Regulation: 418 - 1.8 (a) pg. 21
It requires all children can be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed.
Your back should never be towards the children at all times.
Acronym M.A.T. stands for this.
What is Medication Administration Training?
Regulation 418 - 1.11 (c)(2)(vii)(a,b,c) pg 32
MAT staff are the only staff that can accept and administer prescription medications. MAT staff must always be on-site, be at least 18 years of age, possess CPR of the ages of children in care, and have successfully completed the MAT training.
Protective caps, covers, or installed devices must be used to cover these.
What are Electrical Outlets?
Before children arrive, perform your safety check in the classrooms. Throughout the day maintain that these are covered. At the end of the day, make sure you replace the covers after vacuuming.
This must be done between each diapering.
What is sanitize diapering surface, change gloves and disguard soiled diapers/clothes.
(iii) Children must be kept clean and comfortable at all times. Diapers
must be changed when wet or soiled. The diaper changing area must be
as close as possible to a sink with soap and hot and cold running water.
This area or sink must not be used for food preparation. Diaper changing
surfaces must be cleaned and disinfected after each use with an
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registered product that has an
EPA registration number on the label.
An operable ________ must be kept in the child care area. Such equipment must be properly maintained for use in the event of a power failure.
What is a flashlight or batter powered lantern?
Use of this item is prohibited to be used on children under the age of 2.
What is hand sanitizer?
Regulation: 418 - 1.11 (i)(4)(ii) pg. 44
Hand sanitizer is available in the building and should only be used on adults. Children should always be brought to a sink with soap and water. Regulations state: When soap and running water is not available, hand sanitizer may be used by children, staff and volunteers on visibly clean hands. Package directions must be followed including supervision of children so that ingestion does not occur.
i. When soap and running water is not available and hands are visibly soiled, individual wipes may be used in combination with hand sanitizer.
ii. The use of hand sanitizers on children under the age of two years is prohibited.
Children may not ______ in car seats, baby swings, strollers, infant seats or bouncy seats.
What is Sleep or Nap?
Allowing children to sleep in these has shown in studies to pose a serious risk to the health of the child and their ability to breath.
Please discuss what you should do if a child arrives to the program (or during care) and falls asleep in any of these apparatuses.
Every staff member has signed this form, which states the use of any type of personal electronic media device for social or entertainment purposes, including but not limited to, listening to music on headphones, playing screen games, surfing the internet or social media, sending emails or making personal calls while supervising children is prohibited.
What is our Cell Phone policy?
All containers or bottles of breast milk, formula or other individualized food items and personal hygiene items must be clearly marked with ____ _____ _____ _____.
What is The Child's Complete Name?
Regulation 418 - 1.12 (z) pg. 50
Bottle warmers and washing items could accidently remove the child's first and last name. Please reapply with permanent marker whenever necessary.
Programs must offer daily supervised _____ _____, except during inclement or extreme weather.
What is Outdoor Play?
How often we change children's diapers.
What is every __ hours?
Please check more often if you are potty training, or if a child has a rash, etc. You can document in Brightwheel and use it as a refence for last time it was checked.
This document needs to be posted conspicuously next to every doorway.
What is an Emergency Evacuation Plan
_____ must be available to children at all times and offered at intervals throughout the day.
What is drinking water?
What must be provided to children who are not able to sleep during rest time?
What is a quiet activity?
(w) Children unable to sleep during nap time shall not be confined to a sleeping surface
(cot, crib, etc) but instead must be offered a supervised place for quiet play
When a child day care center is in operation, an adequate number of qualified staff must be on duty to insure the health and safety of the children in care. These are called _____.
What is Ratio?
6 weeks old to 18 months is 4:1 (Max 8)
18 months to 36 months is 5:1 (Max 12)
3 years old is 7:1 (Max 18)
4 years old is 8:1 (Max 21)
5 years old to 9 years old is 10:1 (Max 20)
10 years old to 12 years old is 15:1 (Max 30)
*DAILY DOUBLE* What is the ratio when you have six 3 year olds and five 4 year olds together and how many teachers are needed?
This is the first thing you need to do before handling a child's open wound.
What is put on disposable medical gloves? (Make sure to not use food prep gloves)
_______ and other electronic visual media must be turned off when not part of a planned developmentally appropriate program activity.
What is Television?
This type of disposable cup, bowl, or plate may never be used with infants and toddlers.
What is Styrofoam?
Regulation 418 - 1.12 (m)
Do not use any styrofoam with infants or toddlers. Be mindful of unusual choking hazards and banned items such as glitter.Peeling or damaged ________ must be repaired.
What is paint, plaster, changing pad, toys, furniture?
Child Care staff are required to be informed of and post this information for each child.
Medical Alerts (allergies, medical conditions, etc)
(13) Staff must be aware of each child’s special health care needs identified in
the child’s individual health care plan. This includes, but is not limited to,
allergies, disabilities and medical conditions.
This is the distance cribs/cots must be apart from each other while children are sleeping.
What is 2 Feet?
Regulation 418 - 1.7 (r) (1,2,3,4,5,6,7) pg. 20
Children unable to sleep during nap time shall not be confined to a sleeping surface (cot, crib, etc.) but instead must be offered a supervised place for quiet play.
Regulation 418 - 1.7 (w) pg. 20
You are outside with a large group of children and another teacher. One child requests to use the bathroom. Describe the process of how to correctly maintain ratios and supervision.
1. Notify the other teacher
2. Together, discuss which children will stay and which children will come with you.
3. Count your children staying/going
4. Confirm with the other teacher on the correct number of children and that ratios are maintained for yourself and the other teacher
5. Bring the small group with you to the bathroom and count your children before leaving the bathroom area
6. Reenter the outdoor area and notify the other teacher.
7. Each teacher should count the total children individually and confirm the number matches together (ie: "I counted 10 total, what did you count?")
_____ _____ must be covered, and cleaned as needed after emptying.
What is garbage cans?
Use medical gloves and wipe down the lids or any soiled areas, wash hands after taking out any garbage or diaper genie pails.
Staff and volunteers must take suitable precautions to prevent children from receiving burns caused by contact with _____ _____.
What is Hot Liquids?
Regulation 418 - 1.5(ac) pg 17
This includes hot coffee, hot tea, or any warmed beverage. Best practice suggests adults should only drink water in front of the children, and it must be labelled with your first and last name.
Except while sleeping, awaking, or going to sleep, an infant must not be left in a crib, playpen or other confined space for more than ______ at any one time. Other than at meals or snack time, a child must not be left in a high chair for longer than ______.
What is 30 minutes and 15 minutes?
Regulation 418 - 1.7 (l) pg. 19
All Cleaning materials must be stored in this.
What is original packaging.
(w) Cleaning materials must be stored in their original containers unless the product’s
use or the program’s health care plan indicates that the product be mixed with water
before use. In this case, the container used for subsequent use of the mixed product
must state the name of the cleaning material contained within. Cleaning materials must
be used in such a way that they will not contaminate play surfaces, food or food
preparation areas, or constitute a hazard to children. Such materials must be kept in a
place inaccessible to children.
Name the times that staff must thoroughly wash their hands. Regulations require at least 9, but name at least 4.
1. Beginning of each day
2. Before & After the administration of medications
3. When they are dirty
4. After toileting or assisting children with toileting
5. After changing a diaper
6. Before & After food handling or eating
7. After handling pets or other animals
8. After contact with any bodily secretion or fluid
9. After coming in from outdoors
What are some of the regulations pertaining to sleep surfaces when not in use?
-Sleep surfaces can not touch.
-Each child should have a separate washable cover that is labeled and kept separate.
(s) Individual clean bed coverings must be available, as needed, for each child requiring
a rest period.
(t) Bedding, which is the removable and washable portion of the sleeping environment,
must not be shared between children.
(u) Sleeping surfaces, including bedding, which is the removable and washable portion
of the sleeping environment, must not come in contact with the sleeping surfaces of
another child’s rest equipment during storage. Mats and cots must be stored so that the
sleeping surfaces do not touch when stacked.
Describe the processes used to ensure all children are accounted for at all times.
1. Attendance - children are checked in/out immediately on Brightwheel upon arrival and departure
2. Name to Face - staff look at each child and mark them on the Name to Face category on Brightwheel to ensure the number of children in your classroom match the number of children on Brightwheel
3. Before leaving an area (or adding children to a room) they communicate with other staff, give specific names and number amount to the other staff and wait for acknowledgement before you move on
4. If your numbers do not match or you believe there is a child missing, what should you do? (walkie talkie etiquette)
5. All teachers must always know how many children are in their care at all times, without hesitation.
Space must be provided so that children's _____ _____ may be stored separately.
What are Personal Items?
Regulation 418 - 1.3(s) pg.9
Evacuation drills must be conducted at least ______, during various hours of operation. When conducting Evacuation drills, the _____ _____ must be varied to ensure that all approved means of egress are practiced.
What is Monthly & Exit Route?
Regulation 418 - 1.4 (b)(1)(2) pg.9
Name as many specific about infant feeding as are written in the regulations. There are 9 total, name at least 4.
1. Unused portions of bottles/containers children are spoon fed from must be discarded after each feeding or send home in a bag.
2. You can never heat feeding items for a child in a microwave oven.
3. Devices used to warm feeding items for children cannot exceed 120 degrees.
4. You cannot hold an infant while removing a bottle or food from a warming device.
5. Warming devices must be kept out of the reach of children.
6. Infants 6 months and younger must be held while bottle feeding.
7. Propping of bottles is prohibited.
8. Infants and toddlers must be placed in an appropriate chair for feeding.
9. Children may not be placed in the crib with a bottle, food, or drink.
*Name items that also cannot go into a crib with a child.