A facility must maintain a personnel record on each employee and volunteer. The record must include the employee's or volunteer's application showing qualifications and experience, a job description, annual performance appraisals together with the employee's or volunteer's comments on the appraisal, a record of orientation and in-service training, documentation of the provider's contact with references, documentation of screening for substantiated reports of child abuse and neglect, and documentation that a criminal record check was completed.

The facility must make its personnel records available to the department for verification of the contents.

Source: 7 SDR 66, 7 SDR 89, effective July 1, 1981; 12 SDR 187, effective May 29, 1986; 20 SDR 223, effective July 7, 1994.

General Authority: SDCL 26-6-16.

Law Implemented: SDCL 26-6-16.