1. Each member of
the staff of a facility that is necessary to meet the applicable requirement
for the ratio of caregivers to children set forth in section 5 for napping or
sleeping children must be on the same floor in the same building where the
children are napping or sleeping. Members of the staff of each facility must be
readily accessible and available to be summoned to ensure the safety of the
children in the facility.
2. Areas
provided for napping or sleeping in a facility must be sufficiently lighted to
provide for visual supervision of the children at all times.
3. The staff of each facility shall:
(a) Ensure that each infant under 12 months
of age is placed on his or her back on a firm mattress, mat or pad manufactured
for use by an infant when the infant is napping or sleeping;
(b) Use a safe, sturdy, well-constructed,
single-level, free-standing crib, portable crib or playpen for children to nap
or sleep in;
(c) Equip any such
sleeping device with a waterproof, firm-fitting mattress;
(d) Ensure that each crib to be used by a
child who is 6 months of age or younger is constructed with vertical slats that
are not more than 2 3/8 inches apart;
(e) Ensure that a child who is 18 months of
age or younger naps or sleeps in a crib which is appropriate for his or her age
or in another sleeping device which has been approved by the
Division;
(f) Ensure that a child
who is older than 18 months of age naps or sleeps in an appropriate crib or on
a cot or mat;
(g) Ensure that each
sleeping device has appropriate bedding and a waterproof and washable
covering;
(h) Wipe clean each
sleeping device with a disinfectant not less than one time each week or more
often if necessary;
(i) Ensure that
the bedding that each child uses is used only for that particular
child;
(j) Replace the bedding each
time it is wet or soiled by a child or when the sleeping device is to be used
by another child;
(k) Within 15
minutes after a child in a crib has awakened from a nap or from sleeping, take
the child out of the crib and engage him or her in an appropriate
activity;
(l) Ensure that each
child takes a nap as needed;
(m)
Ensure that each napping or sleeping child is in an area from which the staff
can readily hear and see the child; and
(n) Ensure that each napping or sleeping
child is checked by a caregiver not less than one time every 15
minutes.
4. The staff of
a facility shall not change the diaper of a child in a crib or other sleeping
device.
5. The staff of a facility
shall not use a waterbed, sofa, soft mattress, pillow or any other soft surface
as a surface on which to place an infant under 12 months of age to nap or
sleep.
Added to NAC by Bd.
for Child Care by R203-97, eff. 4-1-98; A by R047-98, 6-10-98; R112-06,
4-23-2009; R112-06, 4-23-2009, eff. 1-1-2010; A by
R092-16AP,
eff. 9/21/2017
