Mich. Admin. Code R. 400.1921 - Water hazards; water activities
Rule 21.
(1) A
licensee shall ensure that barriers exist to prevent children from gaining
access to any swimming pool, drainage ditch, well, natural or constructed pond,
or other body of open water located on or adjacent to the property where the
child care home is located. These barriers must be a minimum of 4 feet in
height and appropriately secured to prevent children from gaining access to
such areas.
(2) A hot tub or spa
pool must not be used when children are in care.
(3) A hot tub or spa pool, whether indoors or
outdoors, must be made inaccessible to children in care by the use of a locked
hard cover.
(4) A wading pool may
be used when all of the following requirements are met:
(a) It is clean and free of debris.
(b) It is emptied and cleaned after each play
period or immediately when it becomes dirty or contaminated.
(c) It remains empty at all times when not in
use.
(5) Before use of a
residential pool or any other body of water by children in care, a licensee
shall ensure that the water is clean, safe, and sanitary, and that the children
will be appropriately and adequately supervised.
(6) Public swimming areas may be used only if
a lifeguard is present.
(7) If
there are 2 groups of children, 1 group in the water and 1 group out of the
water, then the personnel to child ratios, as required in
R
400.1910, must be maintained for each group, with the
exception that the personnel to child ratio for children under 3 years of age
who are in the water must be 1-to-1 at all times.
(8) Rescue equipment must be readily
accessible at all times.
(9) A
working telephone must be immediately accessible in the water activity
area.
(10) A licensee shall obtain
and keep on file written permission from a child's parent for the child's
participation in either of the following:
(a)
Before each outdoor water activity at a swimming pool, lake, or other body of
water off the child care home premises.
(b) Once per season for water activities
occurring on the child care home premises.
(11) The emergency plan in
R 400.1945 must include procedures
for water emergencies.
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