Health & Safety

Information for family child care providers about fire safety, preventing child abuse, and Department of Health regulations.

• Bloodborne pathogens
  Like anyone working with young children, child care providers are inevitably exposed to blood at some point in their working lives.
• Fire safety
  Child care providers need to keep an eye on safety. More kids to watch means additional opportunities for unsafe behaviors or actions.
• Know your regs: common DOH violations
  Have you ever had a Department of Health inspector come to your day care and write you up for a violation? Thought you were in compliance with all of the regulations only to be surprised you had missed something? Wished you had known the ins and outs of the DOH inspector’s checklist?
• Prevent child abuse
  Reports of child abuse and neglect can be made 24 hours a day, seven days a week by calling the New York State Central Register (SCR) Child Abuse and Maltreatment Hotline. All calls are confidential.
• Safety tips
  Do you have a list of local emergency contact numbers for the fire and police departments, poison control and ambulance service posted by each phone?