Yes. You must ensure the safety of all children on field trips
or excursions and during any transportation provided by the child-care
center. Anytime you take a child on a field trip, you must comply
with each of the following requirements:
(1) You must have signed permission from the parent
to take a child on a field trip, including permission to transport
the child, if applicable;
(2) One or more caregivers must carry emergency medical
consent forms and emergency contact information for each child on
the field trip;
(3) Caregivers must have a written list of all children
on the field trip and must check the list frequently to account for
the presence of all children;
(4) Caregivers must have a first-aid kit immediately
available on field trips;
(5) Caregivers must have a copy of a child's food allergy
emergency plan and allergy medications, if applicable;
(6) Each child must wear a shirt, nametag, or other
identification listing the name of the child-care center and the child-care
center's telephone number;
(7) Each caregiver must be easily identifiable by all
children on the field trip by wearing a hat, child-care center tee-shirt,
brightly-colored clothes, or other easily spotted identification;
(8) Each caregiver supervising a field trip must have
transportation available, a communication device such as a cellular
phone or two-way radio available, or an alternate plan for transportation
at the field-trip location in case of emergency; and
(9) One or more caregivers per group of children must
have current training in pediatric first aid and pediatric CPR.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §746.3001 adopted to be effective September 1, 2003, 28 TexReg 1402; amended to be effective September 1, 2016, 41 TexReg 6240; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909; amended to be effective October 8, 2018, 43 TexReg 6649 |
