Indiana Administrative Code › Title 410 - INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Article 6 - SANITARY ENGINEERING › Rule 11 - School-Age Child Care Facilities › Section 11-4 - Facility sanitation

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC
				  16-19-3-4
Affected: IC 16-41
Sec. 4.
(a) All
				interior surfaces of a facility shall be easily cleanable, and of nontoxic
				durable construction.
(b) All light
				fixtures in a facility shall be shielded to protect the students from injury
				due to bulb breakage.
(c) Each
				facility shall have ventilation sufficient to provide adequate oxygen, a
				character of freshness in the air, and to remove exhaled air and undesirable
				odors during periods of student occupancy.
(d) Each facility shall be equipped with a
				heating system capable of maintaining a temperature of not less than
				sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit (68° F), in all student areas under the
				severest of weather conditions. Portable space heaters are
				prohibited.
(e) Pipes, ducts, and
				radiators containing steam or hot water and located in student areas shall be
				shielded to protect the students from injury.
(f) All electrical wiring accessible to
				students shall be protected to prevent accidental shock. All electrical
				receptacles and switches accessible to students shall be shielded to prevent
				accidental shock.
(g) All furniture
				and equipment accessible to students shall be durable and easily cleanable,
				with rounded corners and edges, and otherwise protected as necessary to ensure
				safety.
(h) Drinking water shall be
				provided on each floor of a facility that is accessible to students. Drinking
				water facilities shall have impervious, easily cleanable surfaces and shall be
				kept clean and in a good state of repair. Drinking fountains, where provided,
				shall have a sanitary type guarded angle-stream jet head and an adjustable flow
				regulator. The outlet shall not be below the flood rim of the
				fixture.
(i) Each facility shall be
				provided with restrooms and sanitary facilities. There shall be at least one
				(1) separate, readily accessible restroom for each sex including the following:
(1) Restrooms shall be equipped with
				lavatories or other satisfactory handwashing facilities or such equipment must
				be available in an adjacent room through which the students must pass upon
				egress from the restroom.
(2)
				Handwashing facilities shall be supplied with hot and cold water under
				pressure. Hot water provided for the handwashing facilities shall be maintained
				between one hundred five degrees Fahrenheit (105° F) and one hundred twenty
				degrees Fahrenheit (120° F). An adequate supply of soap, and individual
				sanitary towels in dispensers, or heating units for automatic hand drying shall
				be provided convenient to all handwashing facilities. Common towels are not
				acceptable. If individual sanitary towels are provided, a suitable container
				for used towels shall also be provided.
(3) Restroom toilet fixtures shall be of the
				water-flushed type. Multiple seat toilets or makeshift trough arrangements
				shall not be provided even though they may be equipped for water flushing. All
				water closets shall be partitioned as necessary to provide individual stalls.
				Partitions shall have impervious, smooth-surfaced, easily cleanable surfaces.
				Wood surfaces are not acceptable. An adequate supply of toilet paper shall be
				provided in a dispenser at each water closet.
(4) Covered disposal facilities shall be
				provided in restrooms available to junior high school age girls and
				above.
(5) Restroom floors shall
				have easily cleanable, nonporous surfaces. Restroom walls and ceilings shall
				have smooth nonabsorbent, easily cleanable surfaces.
(6) Restroom entrances shall be screened to
				prevent viewing the restroom interior from the exterior. Restroom exterior
				doors and operable windows shall be fly-proof and tight-fitting.