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A 20 page overview of the various provisions that are necessary to prevent the spread of disease and exposure to toxic chemicals in the day care environment. This paper provides a step by step review of basic hygiene practices in response to specific questions and scenarios regarding those practices. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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- activity 1.4 page 7 Children Services Regulations have a number of commonalties across states and
territories. These regulations are written, of course, to protect the health and welfare of our children. We entrust day care facilities with the most precious aspects of our
lives, our children. To live up to that trust these facilities should not only meet every requirement in the regulations that govern them but they should also employ common
sense when it comes to designing and operating a facility that houses young people. Food safety is a particular pressing concern
in the daycare environment just as is personal hygiene of the staff and children. As history has demonstrated in more than one instance, inattention to either can be hazardous!
Outbreaks of bacterial related diseases can result in hundreds or even thousands of deaths in just a very short period of time. Interestingly, although the organisms that can
cause such outbreaks are quite varied the means through which we prevent their spread are essentially the same. To understand this point it is helpful to first consider these
organisms in more detail. Escherichia coli is an excellent starting point in this exercise. The bacteria Escherichia coli is just one of
the organisms that regulations regarding hygiene in a child care facility are written to avoid. The organism can cause gastroenteritis in humans, diarrheal symptoms, and an excess loss of
chloride and water, causing cholera-like symptoms (USFDA, 1995). In severe cases symptoms can include acidosis and sometimes stools containing blood and pus. In invasive diarrhea the enterotoxic
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