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Environmental Safety

​3 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education
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Falls

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Falls are the single greatest cause of injury in the child care environment and the most common injury requiring medical care. Thus, the prevention of falls will pose one of the greatest challenges to creating a safe environment. ​ Although many injuries resulting from falls are minor (cuts and scrapes), many others such as heavy bleeding, broken bones, and head and eye injuries will be more severe and could be potentially life-threatening. 
The most common type of fall leading to hospitalization is a fall from one level to another, such as from playground equipment, beds, tables, chairs and stairs. Falls resulting in severe or fatal injuries are usually due to falls from second story (or higher) windows.  Children are capable of falling or hurting themselves at any age. A tiny baby can wiggle, move and push. An older baby can roll over, crawl and creep. Toddlers can climb to get to places that were formerly inaccessible to them. 
Indoor furniture and playground equipment are frequently related to injuries from falls. Changing tables vary greatly and can be the cause of an infant’s fall if the infant is left unattended. Although baby walkers are tested, they are the cause of more injuries than any other infant equipment. Injuries occur when young children in walkers fall down stairs or off porches. (Walkers are outlawed in child care.)  
You know well, as an educator, that there is not much you can do to block the activity levels of children in your care. However, you can reduce the risk of injuries through control of the children’s environment, by teaching appropriate behaviors (both indoors and outdoors) and by careful supervision.  
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Modification of equipment and environment:
  • Use infant and child equipment that is in good repair, inspected for safety and meets the needs of all children in your program.
  • Use durable, balanced furniture that will not tip over easily.
  • Get rid of baby walkers.
  • Place safety gates at the top and bottom of stairs. Remove all objects from stairs.
  • Make needed adjustments to the environment for children with mobility or other developmental needs.
  • Keep windows screened and latched. Install window guards on upstairs windows.
  • Pick up toys when play is finished.
  • Pick up other objects from the floor and clean up spills quickly.
  • Avoid highly waxed floors and stairways.
  • Secure or remove loose mats and rugs.
  • Use skid-proof mats or stickers in the bath.
  • Keep the area well lit.
  • Maintain safe playgrounds. The surface under and around play equipment where children can fall should be shock absorbent and soft (e.g., rubber, sand, pea gravel or wood chips).
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Course Navigation Menu

1. Course Agenda
2. Health and Safety​
3. Preventing Injuries
4. ​Safety Regulations (1/11)
5. Hazards (2/11)
6. Risk of Injury
7. Developmental Age (3/11)
8. Safety Policies​
9. Safe or Unsafe (4/11)​
10. Hazard Analysis (5/11)​
11. ​Supervise the Children
12. Staff Ratios (6/11)
13. ​Regular Safety Checks
14. Burns and Fire
15. Burn and Fire Prevention
16. Hot Liquid Burns (7/11)
17. ​Strangulation & Suffocation
18. Falls
19. Poisoning
20. Poisoning can be Prevented
21. ​Drowning
22. ​Emergency Procedures
​23. Emergency Experiences (8/11)
​24. First Aid
25. Minor Injuries (9/11)
26. Disaster Preparedness
27. Emergency Preparedness (10/11)
28. Missing Child
29. Authorized Persons
30. After the Emergency
31. End of Course Quiz (11/11)
32. Evaluation Form
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