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School-age only facilities shall provide at least one (1) toilet and (1) lavatory for each group of twenty-five (25) children on the premises. (4) Supplies. Bathrooms shall be within easy reach of children and equipped with soap, toilet tissue and single-use towels or cloth towels used only once between launderings. (5) Cleanliness. Bathrooms shall be cleaned daily with a disinfectant. F. Equipment and Toys (2) All equipment and furniture shall be used only by the age-appropriate group of children. Equipment and furniture shall be: (b) Kept clean; H. Hygiene

(1) Handwashing, Children. Children's hands shall be washed with liquid soap and warm running water: (a) Upon arrival for care; (b) When moving from one child care group to another; (c) Upon re-entering the child care area after outside play; (d) Before and after eating meals and snacks, and handling or touching food; (e) After toileting and diapering; and (f) After playing in sand, touching animals or pets, and contact with bodily fluids, and after contamination by any other means.

(2) Handwashing, Staff. Staff shall wash their hands with liquid soap and warm running water: (a) Before and after eating meals and snacks, and handling or touching food; (b) After diapering each child; and (c) After toileting or assisting children with toileting.

J. Policies and Procedures (1) The Program shall establish and implement written policies and procedures that describe the Program's operations as follows: (a) The exclusion of children with contagious illness, (b) Notification of parents in the event their child becomes ill while at the facility, (c) The notification of all parents of enrolled children when a reportable contagious illness is present in the facility, (e) Emergency preparedness and response. A written plan for handling emergencies, including but not limited to severe weather, loss of electrical power or water and death, serious injury or loss of a child, a threatening event, or natural disaster which may occur at the program. The program will have in place procedures for evacuation, relocation, shelter-in-place, lock-down, communication and reunification with families, and continuity of operations. The plan must apply to all children in care and will include specific accommodation for infants and toddlers, children with disabilities, and children with chronic medical conditions. Such plan shall include assurance that no Personnel will impede in any way the delivery of emergency care or services to a child by licensed or certified emergency health care professionals, (f) The handling and appropriate disposal of bodily fluids and storage of hazardous materials (soiled clothing and bedding),