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All our principal child care workers, plus ancillary staff, have current first aid certificates.
Hand washing Rules for Children, Carers and Visitors.
Hands should be washed at the following times:
- On arrival at the centre or services
- After toileting or changing nappies
- After wiping a child's nose
- before and after first aid
- before and after giving medicine
- After carrying out cleaning procedures
- Before eating, or preparing or serving food
- Before going home
Hand washing should consist of a period of 10-15 seconds spent washing the hands using soap and running water. All surfaces of the hands should be cleaned - the sides and between the fingers are places that are often forgotten. Children need to be taught to wash their hands. In order to constantly remind children, carers and visitors, posters that promote hand washing are displayed in prominent positions above hand basins in the centre. We also use alcohol-based hand cleaning lotion which does not require any rinsing off for those times hand may not be dirty but still need disinfection.
Hand basins are not to be used for:
- food or drink preparation
- For rinsing soiled clothing
Children should not share face clothes, brushes, combs, toothbrushes or other personal items, as each of these may provide the vehicle for spread of a wide variety of germs. For the same reason, children should not share sheets and pillowcases.
When wiping a child's nose, a disposable tissue is to be used and discarded after a single use. Under no circumstances would a tissue, face cloth or towel be used on more than one child.
There is adequate spacing between cots or beds so that children in adjacent places cannot breathe or cough directly on one another.
If children are brought to care with open cuts or sores which may ooze blood or serum, these will immediately be covered with waterproof bandages or dressings.
If a child sustains a cut or abrasion during childcare, first aid will be given and the parents advised that cuts and sores need to be covered until they have healed whilst the child is at the centre. The person giving first aid should wash hands immediately.
Notification requirements - in the event of a vaccine preventable disease occurring in a child care centre, the Director is required to notify the Public Health Unit. Upon the direction of the health office, unimmunised children must be excluded for the incubation period of the disease in line with the school exclusion or the duration of the outbreak.
Children attending the centre must be immunised according to the NSW Department of Health Guidelines.
It is recommended by the Department of Health that children attending childcare centres should have received Triple Antigen (DTP) and Sabin (Polio) vaccine at 2, 4 and 6 months of age, and booster shot of DTP at 18 months of age. Mumps/Measles/Rubella (MMR) is given at 12 months of age.
Children who have been given homeopathic "immunisation" are classified as "not immunised".
More information on immunisation is available from the Preschool office.
- The Centre floors, tables and bathroom are cleaned thoroughly daily
- Paper hand towels are used by the children and disposed of daily
- Children's toys are washed regularly
- Soiled clothes are sent home and not laundered at the Centre
- Blood and urine are easy off the skin with soap and water
- Split blood or faeces are cleaned with a mild bleach solution of 1:10
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