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(3) describes the circumstances under which a child may be isolated for more than one hour; and

(4) includes other less restrictive responses to be used before isolation for more than one hour. (i) A residential child care facility shall document in the child’s file the circumstances leading to each incident of physical restraint of a child or isolation of a child exceeding one hour. (j) A residential child care facility may not isolate a child in a locked room except that, with prior approval of the department, a locked behavior-management room may be used under the following conditions:

(1) the locked behavior-management room must meet the approval of the appropriate municipal or state fire safety authority, must be suicide-resistant, must have break-resistant glass and security screening on its windows, and may not have less space than 50 square feet; and

(2) the facility’s policies and procedures regarding the use of its locked behavior-management room must incorporate the following requirements:

(A) the locked behavior-management room may be used only if a child is out of control and is in danger of harming the child’s self or others, and the facility staff has exhausted all less restrictive alternatives;

(B) the locked behavior-management room may be used only for the time necessary to change the behavior compelling its use;

(C) the locked behavior-management room may be used only on the order of a professional mental health clinician; the clinician must set out in the order a maximum time limit for initial use of the room for isolation of a particular resident, not to exceed two hours for a child 10 years of age or older, and not to exceed one hour for a child less than 10 years of age; after that initial period the clinician may not continue the isolation of the resident in the locked behavior-management room unless