Section 470 IAC 3-4.7-106 - Heat, light, ventilation, and air conditioningAuthority: IC 12-13-5-3
Affected: IC 12-17.2-4
Sec. 106.
(a) Installation, testing, and maintenance of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fire alarm, and sprinkler systems shall comply with the rules of the FPBSC under 675 IAC.(b) When natural light is insufficient, it shall be supplemented by artificial light so that the following minimum levels of illumination are maintained: (1) All food service areas shall have a minimum of seventy (70) foot-candles.(2) All food storage areas, including refrigerators, shall have a minimum of twenty (20) foot-candles.(3) Desks, table top work areas, reading areas, locked medication storage areas, and art rooms shall have a minimum of fifty (50) foot-candles.(4) Gymnasiums, large muscle equipment areas, bathrooms, locker rooms, and diaper changing areas shall have a minimum of thirty (30) foot-candles.(5) Hallways, corridors, stairwells, storage rooms, and food storage areas shall have a minimum of twenty (20) foot-candles.(6) Rest and nap areas shall have a minimum of five (5) foot-candles in all areas.(c) All light intensity measurements shall be at the level of work. If no work is done in a room or hallway, the measurement shall be at a height of thirty (30) inches above the floor.(d) The child care center shall be ventilated.(e) The center shall maintain a temperature of not less than sixty-eight (68) degrees Fahrenheit.(f) All child care centers initially licensed after the effective date of this rule shall maintain a temperature not more than seventy-eight (78) degrees Fahrenheit.(g) All outside doors and windows shall be screened with sixteen (16) gauge mesh screen when open.(h) The center shall keep all screens in good repair and all unscreened windows and doors closed.(i) The center shall make heating units, including water pipes and baseboard heaters, hotter than one hundred ten (110) degrees Fahrenheit inaccessible to children by barriers such as guards or other devices.Division of Family Resources; 470 IAC 3-4.7-106; filed Aug 11, 2003, 3:00 p.m.: 27 IR 149; readopted filed Oct 24, 2007, 11:25 a.m.: 20071121-IR-470070448RFA; readopted filed Aug 23, 2013, 3:36 p.m.: 20130918-IR-470130306RFAReadopted filed 11/13/2019, 11:56 a.m.: 20191211-IR-470190490RFA