Utah Admin. Code R430-90-13 - Child Safety and Injury Prevention
(1) The provider shall ensure that the
building, outdoor area, toys, and equipment are used in a safe manner and as
intended by the manufacturer to prevent injury to children.
(2) The provider shall ensure that poisonous
and harmful plants are inaccessible to children.
(3) The provider shall ensure that sharp
objects, edges, corners, or points that could cut or puncture skin are
inaccessible to children.
(4) The
provider shall ensure that choking hazards are inaccessible to children younger
than three years old.
(5) The
provider shall ensure that strangulation hazards including ropes, cords,
chains, and wires attached to a structure and long enough to encircle a child's
neck are inaccessible to children.
(6) The provider shall ensure that tripping
hazards including unsecured flooring, rugs with curled edges, or cords in
walkways are inaccessible to children.
(7) The provider shall ensure that empty
plastic bags large enough for a child's head to fit inside, latex gloves, and
balloons are inaccessible to children younger than five years old.
(8) The provider shall ensure that standing
water that measures two inches or deeper and five by five inches or greater in
diameter is inaccessible to children.
(9) The provider shall ensure that toxic or
hazardous chemicals including cleaners, insecticides, lawn products, and
flammable, corrosive, and reactive materials are:
(a) inaccessible to children;
(b) used according to manufacturer
instructions;
(c) stored in
containers labeled with the contents of the container; and
(d) disposed of properly.
(10) The provider shall ensure that the
following items are inaccessible to children:
(a) matches or cigarette lighters;
(b) open flames;
(c) hot wax or other hot substances;
and
(d) when in use, portable space
heaters, wood burning stoves, and fireplaces.
(11) The provider shall ensure that the
following items are inaccessible to children:
(a) live electrical wires; and
(b) for children younger than five years old,
electrical outlets and surge protectors without protective caps or safety
devices when not in use.
(12) Unless used and stored as allowed by any
state or federal law, the provider shall ensure that firearms including guns,
muzzleloaders, rifles, shotguns, hand guns, pistols, and automatic guns are:
(a) locked in a cabinet or area using a key,
combination lock, or fingerprint lock; and
(b) stored unloaded and separate from
ammunition.
(13) The
provider shall ensure that weapons including paintball guns, BB guns, airsoft
guns, sling shots, arrows, and mace are inaccessible to children.
(14) The provider shall ensure that alcohol,
illegal substances, and sexually explicit material are inaccessible, and not
used on the premises, during offsite activities, or in facility vehicles any
time a child is in care.
(15) The
provider shall ensure that an outdoor source of drinking water, including
individually labeled water bottles, a pitcher of water and individual cups, or
a working water fountain is available to each child when the outside
temperature is 75 degrees or higher.
(16) The provider shall ensure that areas
accessible to children are free of heavy or unstable objects that children
could pull down on themselves, including furniture, unsecured televisions, and
standing ladders.
(17) The provider
shall ensure that hot water accessible to children does not exceed 120 degrees
Fahrenheit.
(18) The provider shall
ensure that highchairs that are used by children have T-shaped safety straps or
safety devices that are used when a child is in the chair.
(19) The provider shall ensure that infant
walkers with wheels are inaccessible to children.
(20) The provider shall ensure that tobacco,
e-cigarettes, e-juice, e-liquids, and similar products are inaccessible and, in
compliance with the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act, not used:
(a) in the facility or any other building
when a child is in care;
(b) in any
vehicle that is being used to transport a child in care;
(c) within 25 feet of any entrance to the
facility or other building occupied by a child in care; or
(d) in any outdoor area or within 25 feet of
any outdoor area occupied by a child in care.
Notes
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