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Required Emergency & Accident Policies The applicant must develop written policies governing emergencies, accidents, and injuries. The applicant must develop and implement written policies in the following areas: 1. procedures for administering first aid; 2. safety rules to follow in avoiding injuries; 3. procedures for the daily inspection of potential hazards; 4. procedures for fire prevention and procedures to follow in the event of a fire; 5. procedures to follow in severe weather; 6. procedures to follow when a child is missing; 7. procedures to follow if an unauthorized person attempts to pick up a child or if no one comes to pick up a child; 8. sources of emergency medical care; 9. procedures for recording accidents, injuries and incidents involving a child. Facility Requirements Any facility being used as a child care center must meet a host of requirements defined in part 9503.0155. Staff Qualifications The center must have a director and the appropriate number of staff qualified as teachers, assistant teachers, and aides based on staff ratio and distribution requirements. Within each age category, the first staff needed to meet the staff -to -child ratio must be a teacher, the second staff must be at least aide qualified; the third staff must be at least assistant teacher qualified; and, the fourth staff must be at least aide qualified!ZI Director Qualifications In order to qualify as a director any person must satisfy four requirements. A director must: 1. be at least eighteen (18) years of age; 2. be a graduate of a high school or hold an equivalent diploma; 3. have at least 1,040 hours of staff supervision experience; and 4. have at least nine quarter credits or 90 combined hours in accredited courses in staff supervision, human relations and child developmentLl If a director functions as a teacher or develops or revises the required child care program, the director must meet the qualifications of a teacher specified in part 9503.0032.