Licensing Standards for DayCare Centers

Section 17-895-28
Staff Health Standards

        (a)  Evidence that staff is free from health    

problems, which would have a harmful effect on the infants    

and toddlers or  which would interfere with effective    

functioning, shall be available at the facility as    

follows:    

        (1)     The facility shall have on file the results of    

an employment physical examination for each person    

employed in the facility and each volunteer who serves ten    

or more hours per week.  These examinations shall have    

been taken within a year of beginning employment or    

volunteer service.     

        (2)     Written evidence that each employed staff and    

volunteer of an infant and toddler child care facility is    

free from communicable tuberculosis as a result of a    

negative tuberculin skin test or a satisfactory chest x-   

ray taken within six months before beginning child care    

employment shall be on file at the facility. The tests    

shall be repeated in compliance with chapter 164, title    

11, administrative rules of the state department of    

health; and   

        (3)     Each caregiving staff with an identified health    

problem shall provide the facility with a written    

statement from a physician that the caregiving staff is    

able to care for infants and toddlers.   

     (b)  The facility shall have provisions for    

substitution of staff who is too ill to function    

effectively or who presents a serious health hazard to    

others in the facility. 

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