Development of a checklist for safety evaluation the facilities for children in Kid‘s cafe

This study aims to prepare a suitable checklist for evaluating the facilities for children in Kid‘s cafes, based on the precedent studies about the facilities for infant and children who are the main users of Kid‘s cafes and the regulations for the facility management, and then suggest the base data for installing the facilities for children in Kid‘s cafes and organizing safety control standards. For this, a checklist which emphasized the safety for infants and children most and positively reflected their emotional and behavioral aspects in the evaluation items for the facilities, were organized and suggested. In this checklist with 47 items suggested through this study, the evaluation items for securing the safety and the sanitary facilities for infants and children, which guardians thought most importantly, accounted for the largest portion. This was the content of the standards for facilities which was not included in the standards for the approval of simple business, but this was considered as the essential evaluation items required for the prevention of the safety accidents for infants and children in Kid‘s cafes