Title 7 . Health and Social Services

Chapter 56 . (Reserved)

Section 130. Agency operation and management

7 AAC 56.130. Agency operation and management

(a) An agency shall adopt personnel policies that are given to employees, contractors, and volunteers at the time they start work with children or clients of the agency. The personnel policies must include, as applicable,

(1) personnel qualifications;

(2) the job description applicable to the employee, contractor, or volunteer; and

(3) for employees and contractors

(A) procedures for annual evaluation; and

(B) a performance evaluation within six months of employment.

(b) An agency with one or more employees, contractors, or regular volunteers shall either directly or by delegation to the administrator

(1) provide for screening, scheduling, and supervising of all employees, volunteers and others who provide services in the agency;

(2) remove an employee, contractor, or volunteer from contact with children and clients when the administrator has reason to believe that the employee, contractor, or volunteer has physically or sexually abused a child or furnished a child with alcohol or a controlled substance;

(3) remove an employee, contractor, or volunteer from contact with children and clients when the administrator has reason to believe that the employee, contractor, or volunteer is in violation of 7 AAC 56.210(b) (2), (3), or (5); and

(4) ensure that an employee's, contractor's, or volunteer's ability to perform assigned duties is not impaired by alcohol or controlled substances while in contact with children or while performing other job responsibilities.

(c) If the division requests an agency to remove an employee, contractor, or volunteer from contact with children and clients on the grounds set out in (b)(2) and (3) of this section, the division will inform the employee, contractor, or volunteer of the grounds for removal and provide the employee, contractor, or volunteer with an opportunity to bring to the division's attention any facts that the employee, contractor, or volunteer believes pertinent to the matter. The division will, in its discretion, excuse or delay notification to the employee, contractor, or volunteer if the division determines, in its discretion, that notification may put children or clients at risk of harm or compromise a police investigation. The division will not provide the employee, contractor, or volunteer with any information that is confidential under law or that may put children or clients at risk of harm or compromise a police investigation.

(d) An agency shall adopt and compile agency policies, procedures, program descriptions, and forms, as applicable, into an operational manual that must be made available to employees, contractors, and volunteers and to the licensing representative upon request.

(e) An agency's practices and the practices of agency employees, contractors, or volunteers shall conform to statutes, this chapter, and the agency's policies.

History: Eff. 1/1/2001, Register 156

Authority: AS 44.29.020

AS 47.35.010