DC OSSE hvac requirements

[Anonymous]

Is there a specific regulation regarding the use of air conditioning for childcare centers and/homes when temperatures are higher? I can’t find anything and am wondering with the hot week due next week as our current facility that we started at has not turned on their AC.

[Anonymous]

OSEE definitely has temperature requirements for classrooms (your director should know). I can’t find the specifics, but you can ask your center what temperature your child’s classroom is when you drop off and at what temperature they turn the A/C on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OSEE definitely has temperature requirements for classrooms (your director should know). I can’t find the specifics, but you can ask your center what temperature your child’s classroom is when you drop off and at what temperature they turn the A/C on.

And yes all DC centers are required to monitor classroom temperatures

[Anonymous]

Its under 124.2 (p. 38) of the DC Regs:


A Licensee shall ensure that the temperature within each room of program space shall be maintained at between sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit (68°F) and seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit (75°F) from October through March, and between sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit (68°F) and eighty-two degrees Fahrenheit (82°F) from April through September.

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/publication/attachments/Notice%20of%20Proposed%20Rulemaking%20%28Licensing%20Regulations%29.pdf

If it goes outside of those temperatures, we are required to close until HVAC is fixed.

[Anonymous]

Ok thanks all!!

[Anonymous]

anything above 75F is uncomfortable, and 82F is very very much so. It would be unbearable to have 82.