Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-128 - Safety and emergency procedures

(a) Emergency plans; drills.

(1) Each applicant, each applicant with a temporary permit, and each licensee shall develop and implement a written emergency plan to provide for the safety of children and staff members in emergencies. The emergency plan shall include the following information:

(A) Procedures for emergencies likely to occur on or near the premises, including a fire, a weather-related event, a missing or runaway child, a chemical release, a utility failure, an intruder, an act of terrorism, a lockdown, and an unscheduled closing;

(B) a designated shelter-in-place area, a designated off-premises relocation site, and evacuation routes for each area and for each site;

(C) procedures to meet the needs of individual children, including each child with special needs and chronic medical conditions;

(D) procedures for responding to and preventing allergic reactions of individual children;

(E) procedures for notifying each parent or adult responsible for a child of any off-premises relocation;

(F) procedures for reuniting each child with each parent or adult responsible for the child;

(G) procedures for continuity of operations, including backing up or retrieving health and other required records; and

(H) procedures designating the tasks to be followed by each staff member in an emergency, including the following:

(i) As appropriate, contacting 911 or other emergency response entities;

(ii) assisting the children, including children with special needs, to move to a designated shelter-in-place area and to a designated off-premises relocation site; and

(iii) ensuring that emergency supplies are readily available.

(2) Each emergency plan shall be kept on file on the premises. Each applicant with a temporary permit and each licensee shall ensure that the plan is reviewed with parents or legal guardians of children enrolled.

(3) Each staff member shall be informed of and shall follow the emergency plan.

(4) Each licensee shall review the emergency plan at least annually and update it as needed.

(5) Each licensee shall ensure that each staff member practices, at least annually, the procedures for assisting the children to move to a designated shelter-in-place area and to a designated off-premises relocation site. The date and time of each practice and a list of all participating staff members shall be recorded and kept on file on the premises.

(6) Each licensee shall ensure that each staff member and child participate in the following drills:

(A) A fire drill shall be conducted monthly. A record of the date and time of each fire drill and a record of each evacuation time shall be kept on file on the premises for one year.

(B) A tornado drill shall be conducted monthly. A record of the date and time of each tornado drill and a record of each evacuation time shall be kept on file on the premises for one year.

(b) Standard precautions for handling blood and other bodily fluids or waste. Each applicant, applicant with a temporary permit, and each licensee shall ensure that each staff member complies with the following standard precautions when handling blood and other bodily fluids or waste:

(1) Each staff member shall avoid coming into direct contact with blood and other bodily fluids or waste.

(2) Each staff member shall wear single-use gloves in the following situations:

(A) When cleaning contaminated surfaces or areas;

(B) before dressing a cut or sore that is leaking body fluids; and

(C) when cleaning up each spill, including urine, feces, blood, saliva, vomit, and tissue discharge.

(3) Each contaminated surface or area on which a spill occurs shall be cleaned by removing any visible spill from the surface or area with a water-saturated disposable paper towel or wipe. After the surface or area has been cleaned, the surface or area shall be sanitized by wetting the entire surface or area with a disinfectant solution of chlorine bleach mixed according to the directions on the label, or an appropriate commercial disinfectant used according to the directions on the label.

(4) Each mop used to clean up a contaminated area shall be cleaned and rinsed in a disinfecting solution, wrung as dry as possible, and hung to dry.

(5) Each paper towel, sponge, or other material used for cleaning up a contaminated area shall be placed in a plastic bag with a secure tie and thrown away in a covered container.

(c) Each applicant with a temporary permit and each licensee shall maintain first-aid supplies in a first-aid kit, carrying case, box, or other container. The first-aid supplies shall include the following:

(A) First-aid manual;

(B) single-use gloves;

(C) adhesive bandages of assorted sizes;

(D) adhesive tape;

(E) a roll of sterile gauze;

(F) sharp scissors;

(G) sterile gauze squares at least four inches by four inches in size;

(H) a cleansing agent or liquid soap;

(I) an elastic bandage;

(J) tweezers; and

(K) a bottle of water for washing and cleansing.

Notes

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-4-128

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 65-508; effective May 1, 1986; amended Feb. 26, 1990; amended by Kansas Register Volume 43, No. 29; effective 8/2/2024.