Managing Health and Safety in Child Care
Comprehensive training on indoor/outdoor safety, food handling, disease prevention, and recognizing & reporting child abuse.
Applies to children of all ages.
This popular course helps you create a healthy, safe child care environment. Learn indoor and outdoor safety practices, safe food handling, Universal and Standard Precautions, and other disease-prevention measures. You’ll also learn how to recognize and report child abuse and how to partner with families to reduce risk.
See the learning outcomes and topics below for details on what’s covered.
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Course formats
This course is offered in both our coursebook (with required online component/testing) and our fully online format. The online format of this course includes audio narration in most course sections. Click here to learn more about Care Courses' training formats.
Acceptance information
This course is accepted for child care professional development training requirements in most states and for the CDA credential and for CDA renewal training requirements.
- Illinois: Completing this course and our course Keeping Infants Safe meets the Illinois Day Care Home and Group Day Care Home 15-Hour Pre-Service requirement.
- Michigan: This course can be used to meet the prevention and control of infectious disease training, which includes immunizations.
- Washington State: This course is not accepted for Washington Merit or Washington Stars clock hours.
NAC Training (NECPA National Administrator Credential)
This course is approved by the NECPA Commission, Inc., as meeting the continuing-education criteria for the NAC. Browse all NAC-approved courses.
Learning outcomes
After completing Managing Health and Safety in Child Care you will be able to explain why environmental toxins are harmful to humans, and especially children; identify ways to minimize children’s exposure to toxins and prevent poisoning accidents; and much more! Click to view all of the learning outcomes for this course.
Topics covered
- The importance of natural light for health
- Ways to minimize children's exposure to noise pollution
- Why environmental toxins are harmful to children
- Ways to minimize children's exposure to environmental toxins
- Ways to prevent poisoning accidents
- The importance of nutrition and physical exercise in early childhood
- Safe food-handling procedures
- Hygienic toothbrushing routines
- Sanitary hand-washing and diaper changing techniques
- The handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials and biological contaminants
- Symptoms of communicable diseases that may affect children
- General requirements of excluding children with communicable diseases from attendance
- Guidelines for reporting instance of communicable diseases to health officials
- Ways to minimize the spread of communicable diseases
- What to do when a communicable disease is diagnosed for suspected
- Ways to keep children's play equipment and their indoor and outdoor space safe
- Special safety considerations for infants and toddlers
- Guidelines for handling accidents and injuries
- Vehicle safety precautions
- Fire safety precautions
- Guidelines for administering medication to children
- Ways to ensure children's safety when they leave the early childhood facility
- The definition, signs, and results of child abuse and neglect
- How to report child abuse and neglect
- Some reasons for child abuse and neglect
- Common traits of abusive and neglectful parents
- Ways to help children who have been abused and neglected
What our students say about Managing Health and Safety in Childcare
"I would just like to say thank you for such a great course. I just finished Managing Health and Safety in Child Care. I wish I would have taken this when I first opened my family daycare. I learned a lot from this course. I think this should be a mandatory course before anyone can work at a center or become a licensed daycare provider. Thank you as always for providing a great course and I will continue to do my training through you." - Union Bridge, Maryland
"I would recommend you guys to anyone. The course was easy to understand as well as the quiz. I also received my certificates sooner than I expected. Thanks so much!!" - Glenwood, Illinois
"I have been babysitting 41 years and 847 children have passed through our home from only one time of 2-3 hours to as long as 14 years. I like your courses and they are still informative and clear and offer good solutions to problems even after 41 years." - San Antonio, Texas
"Every course I do I learn more. I really enjoyed this one!" - Carlisle, Pennsylvania
"Very interesting. I learned a lot - even after doing day care for 22 years!" - Rochester, Minnesota
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Course Details & Support
Prerequisites
- Language: Fluent reading and writing in the language of instruction (English or Spanish).
- Technology: Internet access and a web-enabled device (computer, smartphone, or tablet).
Access & Completion Deadline
- This training expires 12 months from the date of purchase.
- To receive a certificate of completion, you must successfully finish the course before the expiration date.
Learning Methods
- Read instructor-written material
- Watch videos
- Listen to audio segments
Assessments
- Multiple-choice quizzes
- Written assignments
Requirements for CEUs and Clock Hours
To earn CEUs and Clock Hours for a course, you must:
- Agree to and acknowledge our Honor Code & Policy
- Follow all instructions for written assignments
- Demonstrate comprehension of the course content
- Achieve the passing score specified in your course.
Quizzes and Assessments
- If your score falls below the passing mark, a trainer will review your work. If needed, you may be asked to speak with a trainer.
- You will have a second chance to retake any quiz or assessment.
- If you do not pass on your second attempt, contact us at info@carecourses.com. We will review your course and follow up directly.
- All quizzes are open book; all answers are found in the course material.
Certificates
- Official Care Courses certificates of completion record your clock hours and CEUs.
- Certificates are available in the My Courses area of your account.
- Please note: All course and certificate dates and times are on Eastern Time.
Getting Started
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- Watch our course navigation video for a quick tour of the online portal.
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About Care Courses
- Care Courses offers over 50 professional development courses and one non-credit training tutorial on the CDA process.
- All professional development courses include clock hours, CEUs, and an official online certificate of completion.
- (The free CDA tutorial does not offer clock hours or a certificate.)
Tuition & Bundles
- Course tuition entitles one person to receive the clock hours and CEUs granted upon successful completion.
- Bundle pricing covers tuition for all courses included in the bundle.
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