Child Health and Safety Hand washing Policy

1. Child Health and SafetyHand washing Policy Partner Meeting March 24, 2010 Region 17 Education Service Center

2. Contact Information: Matilda Elizondo SPCAA HS/EHS Health Manager 806-762-8815-office 806-893-8547-cell matilda.elizondo@spcaa.org

3. § 1304.22 Child health and safety. (a) Health emergency procedures. Grantee and delegate agencies operating center-based programs must establish and implement policies and procedures to respond to medical and dental health emergencies with which all staff are familiar and trained. At a minimum, these policies and procedures must include:

4. (e) Hygiene. • (1) Staff, volunteers, and children must wash their hands with soap and running water at least at the following times: • (i) After diapering or toilet use; (ii) Before food preparation, handling, consumption, or any other food-related activity (e.g., setting the table); • (iii) Whenever hands are contaminated with blood or other bodily fluids; and • (iv) After handling pets or other animals

5. (e) Hygiene. • (2) Staff and volunteers must also wash their hands with soap and running water: • (i) Before and after giving medications; (ii) Before and after treating or bandaging a wound (nonporous gloves should be worn if there is contact with blood or blood-containing body fluids); and • (iii) After assisting a child with toilet use.

6. SPCAA HS/EHS Hand washing Policy The SPCAA Head Start and Early Head Start goal is to instill in staff, parents, and volunteers working in the classroom knowledge about how to teach and model excellent preventive hygiene practices, through hand washing, in order to lower the risk of spreading communicable diseases

7. Procedure: • Training on modeling and teaching the appropriate way of hand washing will be done with staff and other adults working in the classroom. • Hand washing will be with soap and running water. • Hand washing should be done frequently throughout the day including, but not limited to the following times:

8. Office of Head Start Monitoring FY 2010 ProtocolHygiene (Safe Environments) • Safe Environments Question 2A • Do staff, volunteers, and children wash their hands with soap and running water?

9. Observation: Safe Environments (Hand Washing) •  Do staff, volunteers, and children wash their hands with soap and running water: • • After diapering or toilet use, • • Before food preparation, handling, consumption, or any other food-related activity, • • Whenever hands are contaminated with blood or other bodily fluids, and • • After handling pets or other animals?

10. Observation •  Do staff and volunteers wash their hands with soap and running water: • • Before and after giving medications, • • Before and after treating or bandaging a wound (nonporous gloves should be worn if there is contact with blood or blood-containing body fluids), and • • After assisting a child with toilet use?

11. Rationale • The Hand washing Policy is located at the spcaa.org website under the Health/Policies and Plans tab. • Effective implementation of hygiene procedures significantly reduces health risks to children and adults by limiting the spread of infectious germs. • Effective hand washing practices: • Using running water • Using soap • Scrubbing of all surfaces of lathered hands. • Dry hand with paper towels

12. Any Questions???????