Check Your Knowledge: Know When and Where Injuries or Hazards Occur

What is the leading cause of death in infants from one to twelve months of age and is an unexplained death associated with sleep?

What can occur when an infant’s mouth and nose are blocked and the infant is unable to breathe? This most often occurs when soft items are places on or near a sleeping infant?

What can occur when an infant’s airway is blocked due to clothing, bedding, or other items becoming tangled around the infant’s neck?

Programs need to make sure that outdoor climbing, swinging and slide structures have sufficient __________ underneath them and covering their fall zones.

Which of the following does NOT serve as an appropriate protective surface for the fall zones of outdoor climbing, swinging, and sliding structures?

Discussing a specialized set of safety rules with older children, staff and chaperones prior to a field trip (based on the potential hazards the field trip location and special activities will pose) is a good way to help prevent injuries on the field trip.

Which of the following would increase safety and reduce hazards of a field trip?

Immediately wiping spills off the floor does not prevent hazardous slip and falls in the classroom.

Completing regular classroom safety assessment “walk-throughs” using a program-approved checklist will help you identify and address potential hazards that are present in your room.

Regularly checking the hot water temperature levels of the hand washing sink faucets in your program to ensure they do not exceed 110 degrees will NOT protect children from potential burns.

Which of the following are part of a plan for the presence of “visiting” animals in your classroom that will keep children safe?

Keeping informed of consumer product safety recalls allows you to remove all potentially hazardous classroom materials or toys that have been named in a safety recall.

For certified home child care programs, outdoor stationary equipment must be which of the following?

Child care providers do not need to make sure that outdoor sand boxes are covered when not in use.

Monitoring local air quality alerts and current weather conditions (air temperature, heat index, severe weather patterns, etc.) and altering outdoor play schedules based on this information should be part of a child care program’s regular procedures.

Which of the following is NOT an appropriate action to take regarding children and outdoor play based on weather?

Placing infants on their backs to sleep will reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Which of the following is not a safety hazard presented by the presence of uncovered electrical cords in child play areas?