PHYSICAL FACILITY, EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHINGS: 11020 - CCLR s.13(2) - A licensee must ensure that the community care facility and the furniture, equipment and fixtures within it are clean and in good repair while children are in attendance.
Observation: Licensing observed a rip in the diaper change mat exposing the foam underlay. Licensing provided education how a ripped diaper change mat cannot be cleaned and sanitized effectively.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure that the community care facility and the furniture, equipment and fixtures within it are clean and in good repair.
Date to be Corrected: May 11, 2022.
PHYSICAL FACILITY, EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHINGS: 11200 - CCLR s.17 - A licensee must ensure that children do not have access to any object or substance that may be hazardous to the health or safety of a child.
Observation: Licensing observed the following accessible to children in care;
- Open bag of patching compound material in an unlocked kitchen cupboard. The Manager removed this item.
-Four screws sticking out of the wooden climbing section of the outdoor big slide structure.
- One panel of the back wooden fence is slightly broken causing a piece of the wood to stick out. Potential for a child to hurt themselves.
- A dirty and wet towel on the ground in the outdoor play area.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure that children do not have access to any object or substance that may be hazardous to the health or safety of a child.
Date to be Corrected: May 12, 2022.
STAFFING: 12430 - CCLR s.56(1)(b) - A licensee must keep current records of each of the following: (b) for each employee, the records required under section 19 (1) [character and skill requirements].
Observation: Upon a review of three staff records, Licensing observed that two staff's Criminal Record Check (CRC) expired on April 3, 2022. The Manager informed Licensing that new CRC have been applied for but not yet received.
Licensing provided education on having a system in place to ensure that staff records are maintained.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure that current staff records are kept.
Date to be Corrected: May 24, 2022.
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES: 13010 - CCLR s.22(1)(a) - A licensee must (a) ensure that a community care facility has (i) emergency exits that meet the requirements of the BC Building Code, and (ii) a fire drill system that is approved as definedby section 31 of the Fire Services Act.
Observation: Licensing observed that the fire extinguisher was to be serviced in September 2021 however, it has not been serviced yet. Licensing provided clarification on how to identify, on the tag, when the fire extinguisher has been serviced and when the next service is to be done.
This is a repeat contravention.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure that fire extinguishers are serviced annually.
Date to be Corrected: May 17, 2022.
RECORDS AND REPORTING: 19090 - CCLR s.57(2)(c) - A licensee must keep, for each child, a record showing the following information: (c) daily attendance record, indicating for each day whether the child is absent or, if the child is present, the time of arrival and departure.
Observation: Upon a review of eight days of the attendance record for the months of April and May, Licensing observed two days that children's time of departure were not indicated.
This is a repeat contravention.
Corrective Action(s): Ensure that attendance records are accurate on a daily basis,
Date to be Corrected: May 11, 2022.
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