N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:56-10.22

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 3A:56-10.22 - Personal hygiene requirements

(a) The home shall ensure that adolescents and staff members wash their hands with soap and running water immediately:

1. Before preparing or serving food;

2. After diapering a child;

3. After toileting;

4. After assisting a child in toileting;

5. After caring for a child who appears to be sick;

6. After handling animals or their equipment or after coming in contact with an animal's body secretions; and

7. After coming into contact with blood, fecal matter, urine, vomit, saliva, nasal secretions, or other body fluids or secretions.

(b) The home shall ensure that adolescents or staff members:

1. Change each infant's diaper when wet or soiled; and

2. Wash and dry each infant's bottom during each diaper change with an individual disposable wash cloth, paper towel or disposable diaper wipes.

(c) The home shall ensure that soiled diapers are placed in a closed container that is lined with a leakproof or impervious lining.

1. Disposable diapers shall be removed from the home daily and placed in a closed container that is outside the building and used for refuse collection.

2. Non-disposable diapers shall be stored and laundered separately for each child except when the diapers are laundered by a commercial laundry service.

N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:56-10.22

Amended by R.2014 d.103, effective 6/16/2014.
See: 46 N.J.R. 7(a), 46 N.J.R. 1473(b).
In (a)7, substituted a comma for a semicolon following "blood", and inserted a comma following the first occurrence of "secretions".