Child Development Center

Course Summary

This course describes a method for design, construction, development, customized inspection and maintenance program for Child Care Development (CDC) outdoor play area for children. Detailed instructions are included for customizing the program for different age groups of toddler, preschool and school age children.

Learning Objectives

The engineer who takes this course becomes familiar with how to design and inspect for safety a Child Care Development out door play area for different age children. He will learn guidelines for child safety as follow:

• Head and neck entrapment
• Maximum recommended equipment heights by age group
• Multiple exits on play equipments
• Pinch, crush, and shear points
• Protective barriers
• Protrusions

Course Author

US Army Corps of Engineers

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Certificate of completion of the course

This course comes with a multiple-choice quiz. You can view the quiz and take the quiz if you are logged in your account. You can take the quiz for this online PDH course as many times until passed. The passing grade is 70% and above. After you pass the quiz simply follow the page, to pay for the course and print your certificate instantly. A copy of the certificate and receipt for this course will always be in your account.

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