Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in Early Years Settings
Begin your own collection of health and safety information and guidance that you can refer to in order to support your own work and your colleagues. Remember to ensure that your reference materials will need to be updated on a regular basis.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Fire safety risk assessment’ from the UK government
- ‘Health and safety in the nursery’ on the Teach Early Years website
- 'Health and safety: responsibilities and duties for schools’ by the Department for Education
- 'Managing safety in schools & colleges’ by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
- 'Childhood illnesses: your guide’ from the NHS
- 'Health protection in schools and other childcare facilities’ from the UK government.
- 'Symptom checker’ from the Meningitis Research Foundation
- 'Giving medication to children in registered childcare: A childcare factsheet’ from Ofsted
- The HSE is an invaluable source of information on managing health and safety in the workplace. The following resources were written by the HSE or feature on their website.
- 'Writing a health and safety policy’
- 'The health and safety toolbox: How to control risks at work’
- 'Risk assessment: A brief guide to controlling risks in the workplace’
- 'Leading health and safety at work’
- 'First aid at work legislation’
- 'Reporting accidents and incidents at work’
- 'Harmful substances’
- PAT-Portable appliance testing FAQ’s
- 'Work with display screen equipment’
- ‘Childcare: Reporting significant events and changes to health’ from Ofsted
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation on ‘Monitoring safety’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentaion on ‘Health and safety for managers’.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Explore the website of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Familiarise yourself with the subjects covered and search for any additional guidance available for your industry sector.
- Read ‘Managing Risk in Play Provision - Implementation Guide’. Available from Play England and endorsed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
- The website of the Public Health England has a large section of information about infectious diseases.
- Visit the Government’s fire home safety website.
- Explore the website of ROSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents).
- Begin your own collection of health and safety information and guidance that you can refer to in order to support your own work and your colleagues. Remember to ensure that your reference materials will need to be updated on a regular basis.
- Explore the website of Child Accident Prevention Trust. Look at the issues they raise and the resources that are available (paid and free) for practitioners, parents and policy makers.
- ‘Fire Safety’ from the HSE offers general advice on fire safety and provides guidance on substances that cause fire and explosion.
- ‘Workplace health, safety and Welfare: a short guide for managers’ covers a wide range of basic health, safety and welfare issues required by law.
- Click to read 'Health and wellbeing at work: a resource guide' by the Public Health Agency.
- Read the ‘Child product safety guide: Potentially dangerous products’ document produced by the European Child Safety Alliance. Do you use any of these products in your setting and have you assessed the risks in using them?
- The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS has this guide 'Your Guide to Childhood Illnesses'.
- This guide for parents and carers covers ‘Common childhood illnesses’ and was produced by NHS South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group.
- Think And Challenge
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