Activity 2.2 | Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

Explore the provided health and safety resources to support leading with health and safety in mind. After exploring, you will be asked to engage in a reflection activity.

• Fire and Life Safety for Licensed Home-Based Child Care Settings in British Columbia (Island Health, n.d.). 
• Furnishings & Equipment Guidelines for Licensed Child Care Facilities (Unit for Child Care Research School of Child and Youth Care University of Victoria and Community Care Facilities Licensing Program Vancouver Island Health Authority, 2003). 
• Cleaning and disinfecting: How To Clean and Disinfect Early Care and Education Settings | Water, Sanitation, and Environmentally Related Hygiene (WASH) | CDC (Center for Disease Control, 2024).
• Preventing Illness in Child Care Settings (British Columbia Ministry of Health Planning, 2003).
• Hygiene: Hand Hygiene (Center for Disease Control, 2025).
• Weather preparedness (First Nations Health Authority, n.d.).
• Preventing Injury in Child Care Settings (Ministry of Health Planning Community Care Facilities Branch, n.d.).
• Safe Lifting Techniques of Children [YouTube Video] (Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers, 2011). 
• Injury Topics Parachute (Parachute Canada, n.d.). 
• Cleaning Body Fluids(National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education, 2023)
• Emergency preparedness: Licensing requirements(Island Health, 2014).
• Emergency Management Information and Resource Package (Ministry of Education and Childcare, 2024).
• PreparedBC emergency guides and resources (Government of British Columbia, 2025) emergency guides and resources

British Columbia Ministry of Health Planning. (2003). Child care licensing regulation: A guide for licensees. https://www.health.gov.bc.ca/library/publications/year/2003/com018.pdf

Center for Disease Control. (2024). How To Clean and Disinfect Early Care and Education Settings. https://www.cdc.gov/hygiene/about/how-to-clean-and-disinfect-early-care-and-education-settings.html

Center for Disease Control (2025). Hand Hygiene. http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/prevention-public-health/hand-hygiene

Community Care Facilities Branch Ministry of Planning. (2023). Preventing Illness.  https://www.health.gov.bc.ca/library/publications/year/2003/com018.pdf  

First Nations Health Authority. (n.d.). Be prepared for hot weather [PDF]. https://www.fnha.ca/Documents/Be-Prepared-for-Hot-Weather-Info-Sheet.pdf  

Government of B.C. (2024). Emergency Management Information and Resource Package. https://blog.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/808/2024/06/Ministry-of-Education-and-Child-Care-Information-Package-Emergency-Management-2024-FINAL.pdf  

Government of British Columbia. (2025, March 5). PreparedBC emergency guides and resources. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-management/preparedbc/guides-and-resources

Island Health. (2014). Emergency policies and procedures child care. https://www.islandhealth.ca/sites/default/files/2019-08/emergency-policy-procedure.pdf  

Island Health. (nd). Fire and Life Safety for Licensed Home-Based Child Care Settings in British Columbia.  https://www.islandhealth.ca/sites/default/files/care-facilities-licensing/fire-and-life-safety-for-family-child-care.pdf  

Ministry of Education and Child Care. (2024, June). Emergency management information and resource package [PDF]. Government of British Columbia. https://blog.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/808/2024/06/Ministry-of-Education-and-Child-Care-Information-Package-Emergency-Management-2024-FINAL.pdf   

Ministry of Health Planning Community Care Facilities Branch (n.d.). Preventing Injury in Child Care Settings. https://www.health.gov.bc.ca/library/publications/year/2003/oip003.pdf

National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education. (2023). Appendix L: Cleaning up body fluids. Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards. https://nrckids.org/files/appendix/Appendix%20L%202023.pdf

Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers. (2011, March 8). Safe lifting techniques of children [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6kbV0HEzjQ

Parachute Canada. (n.d.). Injury topics. https://parachute.ca/en/injury-topics/.

Unit for Child Care Research, School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, & Community Care Facilities Licensing Program, Vancouver Island Health Authority. (2003). Furnishings & equipment guidelines for licensed child care facilities. https://www.islandhealth.ca/sites/default/files/2018-05/com021.pdf