Earning Criteria

• Aligns with ITC HSW4: Develop safe indoor and outdoor play environments for infants and toddlers.
• Implement environmental guidelines essential to health and safety (e.g., outlines signs of abuse and neglect and ways to document abuse and neglect).
• Design 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.
• Facilitate appropriate food preparation and handling procedures by following required national, state, or local standards and regulations.
• Implement instructions and required documentation for administration of different medicines and approved medical treatments and health appraisals.
• Implement emergency, medical, and first aid procedures.
• Utilize instructions and required documentation for administration of different medicines and approved medical treatments and health appraisals
• Engage in contagious disease prevention and procedures.
• Employ healthy nutritional practices, for example, dietary requirements, feeding practices, and healthy eating strategies
• Utilize ethical and confidential record- keeping strategies related to health and safety., (e.g., risk analysis documentation, accident reports, etc.)
• Apply 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