N.J. Admin. Code § 13:92-10.6

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 13:92-10.6 - Staff coverage

(a) Sufficient staff shall be available to provide continuous 24-hour-per-day supervision of the juveniles and protection of the facility.

(b) There shall be a designated staff person on-site in charge of the facility at all times.

(c) There shall be a female child care worker on duty whenever a female resident is in the facility.

(d) Periodically, during sleeping hours, and whenever juveniles are in their sleeping rooms or any holding room, they shall be visually checked at least every 15 minutes. Each check shall be documented in a record created for this purpose.

(e) At no time shall there be fewer than two child care workers on active duty when a juvenile is in care at the facility.

(f) Staff shall be assigned within the facility to ensure that appropriate coverage is maintained in accordance with adequate security and safety practice.

(g) The ratio of child care workers on duty to juveniles during waking hours shall be at least one worker to eight juveniles; during sleeping hours at least one worker to 16 juveniles.

1. These ratios shall only include child care workers who, by virtue of their deployment throughout the facility, directly supervise juveniles.

(h) Child care workers responsible for the supervision of juveniles, and included in meeting staff-to-juvenile ratios, shall not have other responsibilities assigned to them at that time, such as transportation, control room duties, or other duties.

(i) Auxiliary staff members including, but not limited to clerical, food service, maintenance, educational and medical personnel, as well as child care workers and administrative staff who are not responsible for the direct and continuous supervision of juveniles, shall not be included in meeting the staff-to-juvenile ratios set forth in this chapter.

(j) Staff-to-juvenile ratios shall be increased when the special needs of the juveniles cannot be met or their health, safety and welfare cannot be guaranteed by the staff-to-juvenile ratios set forth in this chapter.

N.J. Admin. Code § 13:92-10.6

Amended by R.2000 d.189, effective 5/1/2000.
See: 32 N.J.R. 651(a), 32 N.J.R. 1627(a).
Rewrote the section.
Amended by R.2005 d.372, effective 11/7/2005.
See: 37 N.J.R. 1417(a), 37 N.J.R. 4283(a).
Rewrote (d); added new (g); recodified former (g)-(i) as (h)-(j).
Amended by R.2011 d.092, effective 3/21/2011.
See: 42 N.J.R. 2588(a), 43 N.J.R. 735(a).
In the introductory paragraph of (g), deleted "on duty" following "workers"; and added (g)1.