Earning Criteria

• Identify environmental guidelines essential to health and safety, for example: • outlines signs of abuse and neglect, and • ways to document abuse and neglect
• Implement strategies to maintain a safe and risk-free indoor environment for children in which hazards are identified, risks assessed, and threats responded to with appropriate corrective action.
• Implement appropriate food preparation and handling procedures.
• Implement emergency, medical, and first aid procedures.
• Implement instructions and required documentation for administration of different medicines and approved medical treatments and health appraisals.
• Apply contagious disease prevention procedures.
• Incorporate healthy nutritional practices, for example, dietary requirements and healthy eating and feeding strategies into safe and healthy learning environments.
• Utilize ethical and confidential record- keeping strategies related to health and safety, for examples, • risk analysis documentation, • accident reports.
• Implement standards and regulations related to health and safety (e.g., DCFS).
• Implement regulations that support the rights of children with developmental delays and disabilities (e.g., IDEA).
• CHLD 228/CHLD202
• Link with Rubric assessment values attached