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and have no barrier to helping children in the napping room;

(B) be easily accessible from the adjoining room;

(C) have sufficient light to view each sleeping child from the door or windowed partition; and

(D) have one or more sound monitoring devices so that staff in the adjoining room can hear the children. (e) A child care home or group home shall ensure that

(1) children are supervised at all times, even when the children are sleeping;

(2) caregivers are on the same floor of the facility as infants and toddlers in care and other children requiring closer supervision, unless infants and toddlers are sleeping on a different level and sound monitoring devices are used to hear sleeping children;

(3) caregivers are within sight or sound of children in care, including when the children are sleeping; and

(4) caregivers know the whereabouts of the children in care at all times. (f) A child care facility shall maintain caregiver and child attendance records that reflect the time caregivers are present and children are in care. (g) A caregiver in a child care facility may participate in duties other than direct care of children and be counted toward the caregiver-to-child ratios required under 7 AAC 57.505 if the caregiver remains on duty and the caregiver’s primary responsibility continues to be the direct care and supervision of children. However, child care facility staff counted toward caregiver-to-child ratio requirements must be awake at all times during which they are counted unless five or fewer children, including the caregiver’s own children under 18 years of age, are in care during nighttime care. (h) A child care home and a child care group home shall designate an adult who is known by the home caregiver to be of good character, and is available to assist in case of serious illness, accident, or other emergency. If this adult assists only in emergency situations for a part of the day during the emergency, the caregiver qualifications set out in 7 AAC 57.310 and the ability to administer first aid and CPR in a child care facility do not apply to that individual. (i) A child care facility shall prevent exposure of children to individuals, animals, and situations posing a possible danger. A child care facility may not allow a child to participate in a high-risk activity, including

(1) use of a mobile infant walker;

(2) a young child walking along a river edge; or

(3) a child of any age