Be able to carry out own responsibilities for health and safety
Click to watch 'Risk assessment in health and social care' produced by Care Consort and work through the steps in your own work environment.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Health and safety’ webpage on the Social Care Institute for Excellence website
- ‘Safety' webpage on the Healthy Working Lives website
- ‘The importance of assessing health and safety risks in the work setting ' by the British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- 'Hot water - Risk of scalding - What do I have to do?’ issued by the National Association for Safety and Health in Care Services.
- ‘Health and safety in businesses that provide care services' webpage on the NI Business Info website
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Research health and safety reports relating to incidents at care homes and hospitals. What can you learn from the reports about managing risk and how failure to manage risk occurs?
- Obtain a copy of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publication ‘Managing Skin Exposure Risks at Work’. Read the publication and notice risks that apply to you in your setting and the responsibilities of you and your employer to deal with them. The document can be obtained by clicking on the PDF icon to the left
- Obtain a copy of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publication ‘An Introduction to Health and Safety’. Although this document is aimed at employers it provides detailed information of health and safety legislation with examples of how it applies to different working practices. The document can be downloaded by clicking on the PDF icon to the left
- Search the internet for information and websites providing information on how to respond to different emergency situations.
- 'Safety and safeguarding in the care home' is an article from the SCIE website.
- Look at the Government’s fire safety website by clicking on the web icon to the left
- Explore the website of the National Association for Safety and Health in Care Services by clicking on the web icon to the left.
- Explore the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) website section for Health and Social Care Services by clicking on the web icon on the left
- Think And Challenge
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