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NORTH DAKOTA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
TITLE 75. DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
ARTICLE 3. COMMUNITY SERVICES
CHAPTER 16. LICENSING OF GROUP HOMES AND RESIDENTIAL CHILD CARE FACILITIES
Date:
08/31/2009
Document:
75-03-16-61. Emergency and safety procedures - Communications.
1. The facility shall establish a written emergency plan for responding to potential natural, manmade, and health emergencies, including flood, avalanche, fire, severe weather, loss of water or food supplies, intruders, and lost participants or staff. The plan must include:
a. Designation of authority and staff assignments;
b. Plan for evacuation, including transportation and relocation of participants when necessary and evacuation of injured persons; and
c. Supervision of participants after evacuation or relocation.
2. All out-based programs shall provide firefighting equipment appropriate to the location and nature of program activities and shall maintain all such equipment in good repair. At a minimum, such equipment must include a shovel and water receptacle.
3. The facility shall give all program participants training in fire prevention, fire safety, and precautions in case of severe weather. The facility shall give safety training in additional areas as may be applicable to program activities including dehydration, frostbite, heat exhaustion, hyperthermia, hypothermia, poisoning from plants or animals, snow blindness, and drowning.
4. Any mobile program expedition group shall maintain the capability of contacting the facility at all times by means of a system that includes, at a minimum, reliable two-way radio or telephone communication devices plus a backup means of contact in the event of radio or telephone failure. An expedition group may substitute the capability of contacting a sheriff's office or other emergency response entity only upon prior approval by the department.
5. A mobile program expedition group shall contact the facility by radio, telephone, or other verbal means at least once every forty-eight hours.
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