An emergency preparedness plan is designed to ensure the safety of children during an emergency by addressing staff responsibility and facility readiness with respect to emergency evacuation, relocation, and sheltering/lock-down. The plan addresses the types of responses to emergencies most likely to occur in your area including:
  (1) An evacuation of the children and caregivers to a designated safe area in an emergency such as a fire or gas leak;
  (2) A relocation of the children and caregivers to a designated, alternate shelter in an emergency such as a flood, a hurricane, medical emergency, or communicable disease outbreak; and
  (3) The sheltering and lock-down of children and caregivers within the operation to temporarily protect them from situations such as a tornado, volatile person on the premises, or an endangering person in the area.

Source Note: The provisions of this §744.3551 adopted to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7469; amended to be effective September 1, 2016, 41 TexReg 6225; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909