Description
By the end of the course, candidates will be able to:
- Discuss employer and employee roles and responsibilities associated with health and safety in social care settings
- Understand the use of risk assessments in relation to health and safety
- Identify why accidents can happen
- List a range of different health and safety issues and describe ways in which their risk can be reduced
- Discuss the importance of following policies and procedures related to health and safety
- Understand the need to recognise and manage stress
- Recognise early signs of aggression and identify ways to deal with it
Course Content
- Benefits of good health and safety
- Costs of poor health and safety
- Statistics
- Legislation
- Employer responsibilities
- Employee responsibilities
- Training
- Enforcement
- Criminal and Civil Law
- Accident types and causes
- Risk assessments
- Control measures
- Reducing risks
- Good housekeeping principles
- Safety signs
- Moving and Handling
- Slips, trips and falls
- Electricity
- Equipment
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
- Laundry
- Occupational exposure
- Safe waste management
- Body fluid spillages
- Emergencies
- Fire safety
- Welfare
- Stress – causes and management
