(1) A licensee must provide for the personal and professional needs of staff by:

(a) Having a place to store personal belongings that is inaccessible to children;

(b) Having a readily accessible phone to use for emergency calls or to contact the parents and guardians of enrolled children; and

(c) Providing file and storage space for professional materials.

(2) A school-age provider must be excluded from the school-age premises when that provider's illness or condition poses a risk of spreading a harmful disease or compromising the health and safety of others. The illnesses and conditions that require a staff member to be excluded are pursuant to WAC 110-301-0205.

(3) If a staff person has not been vaccinated, or shown documented immunity to a vaccine preventable disease, that person may be required by the local health jurisdiction or the department to remain off-site during an outbreak of a contagious disease described in WAC 246-110-010. A school-age program staff person or volunteer who has not been vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella or shown proof of immunity from measles must not be allowed on the school-age premises except as provided in (a) and (b) of this subsection.

(a) A school-age program may allow a person to be employed or volunteer on the school-age premises for up to thirty calendar days if the person signs a written attestation that the employee or volunteer has received the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, or is immune from measles, but requires additional time to obtain and provide their immunization records. The required records must include immunization records indicating the employee or volunteer has received the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine; or records that show proof of immunity from measles through documentation of laboratory evidence of antibody titer or a health care provider's attestation of the person's history of measles sufficient to provide immunity against measles.

(b) A school-age program may allow a person to be employed or volunteer on the school-age premises if the person provides the school-age program with a written certification signed by a health care practitioner, as defined in RCW 28A.210.090(3), that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine is, in the practitioner's judgment, not advisable for the person. Subdivision (b) of this subsection does not apply if a person's health care practitioner determines that the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine is no longer contraindicated.

(4) A school-age program's health policy, pursuant to WAC 110-301-0500, must include provisions for excluding or separating staff with a contagious disease described in WAC 246-110-010.