What is considered “regular and substantial unsupervised or unrestricted physical contact?
Although it is the responsibility of each provider of services to decide which positions for which persons are applying will have this type of contact, generally speaking, these positions would involve in-person, face to face communication or interaction with clients, or the reasonable opportunity for such communication or interaction, while not at all times in the reasonable physical proximity of another person, who is employed or under contract with the provider of services.
It is the responsibility of each agency, provider of services or registered provider to decide which employees will have this type of contact. The CBC unit is available for guidance. OMRDD regulations specify situations in which a person is presumed to have regular and substantial unsupervised or unrestricted physical contact. These include direct care staff, clinicians providing clinical services, and people whose work assignment location is at a certified site, such as a day treatment or day habilitation facility.
