Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1.
Policies and records.
The applicant must develop written policies governing
emergencies, accidents, and injuries. The license holder must ensure that
written records are kept about incidents, emergencies, accidents, and injuries
that have occurred.
Subp.
2.
Instruction record.
The license holder must keep a record of instruction to all
staff persons and, when appropriate, to children and parents, about how to
carry out the policies.
Subp.
3.
Policy content.
The policies must contain:
A. Procedures for administering first
aid.
B. Safety rules to follow in
avoiding injuries, burns, poisoning, choking, suffocation, and traffic and
pedestrian accidents.
C. Procedures
for the daily inspection of potential hazards.
D. Procedures for fire prevention and
procedures to follow in the event of a fire. Fire procedures must:
(1) mandate monthly fire drills and a log of
drill times and dates;
(2) identify
primary and secondary exits, building evacuation routes, the phone number of
the fire department, persons responsible for the evacuation of children, and
areas for which they are responsible;
(3) contain instruction on how to use a fire
extinguisher and how to close off the fire area; and
(4) provide for the training of staff persons
to carry out the fire procedures.
E. Procedures to follow in the event of a
blizzard, tornado, or other natural disaster that include the location of
emergency shelter, procedures for monthly tornado drills from April to
September, and a log of times and dates showing that the drills were
held.
F. Procedures to follow when
a child is missing.
G. Procedures
to follow if an unauthorized person or a person who is incapacitated or
suspected of abuse attempts to pick up a child or if no one comes to pick up a
child.
H. Sources of emergency
medical care.
I. Procedures for
recording accidents, injuries, and incidents involving a child enrolled in the
center. The written record must contain the name and age of the persons
involved; date and place of the accident, injury, or incident; type of injury;
action taken by staff; and to whom the accident, injury, or incident was
reported.
J. Procedures mandating
an annual analysis of the record in item I and any modification of the center's
policies based on the analysis.
Subp.
4.
Records.
The following records must be maintained in the center's
administrative record:
A. the
procedures specified in subpart
3;
B. a log of fire and tornado drills;
and
C. a written record of
accidents, injuries, emergencies, and incidents.
