6.1 Explain how to prevent the spread of infection in early years settings
It’s important to prevent the spreading of infection and keep others out of harm. You can do this I'm many ways including frequently washing hands, thoroughly cleaning areas (e.g tables, sides, toys) and staying away from the setting when you become unwell.
6.2 Identify childhood infections
Children are most vulnerable to infections in their first few years. It’s important to be aware of the signs to look for in order to help prevent the infection from spreading further, and potentially becoming serious. Children who have infections such as chickenpox or whooping cough should be kept away from childhood settings until the infection is almost/all gone to prevent
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Public Health England and Department of Health offer advice and guidance on things such as health issues and erecting a child’s health.
6.5 Explain the immunisation programme for children and it’s roll in infection control
The immunisation programme is the giving of immunisation through a vaccine injection given to children. The injection contains a small amount of bacteria/infection to help a child’s immune systems create antibodies to fight against it - becoming stronger. The immunisation programme has a roll in infection control as when lots of children have had the injection and been immunised, it’s will decrease the risk of the infection spreading to others.
7.1 Explain the risk assessment process
A risk assessment is carried out to ensure you are keeping the children safe and free from harm whilst in the setting. You first assess a risk by identifying any potential hazards, you then need to identify who may be at risk within the setting, then identify how you are going to ensure the risk does not become a hazard.
7.2 Describe how to carry out a risk assessment and risk management in line with policies and procedures
Before carrying out a risk assessment you need to be made aware of potential hazards within the setting to know what to look out for. Each hazard must then be detailed of who might be at risk and then actioned from there. For example toys with small parts should only be used by those over the age of 3
* Risk assessments – Local and governing authorities make compulsory the use of risk assessments. Risk assessments are carried out to evaluate any potential hazards that may
6. The risk assessment team will conduct an inspection of the department/area being assessed for risk or observe the process being assessed for risk in action. The members of the risk assessment team will individually document their findings on the “ABC Proactive Risk Assessment Worksheet” (Attachment A). To determine the appropriate score for each identified risk, the reviewer will consider information obtained through a physical tour of the facility, review of annual incident
3.7. Using a risk assessment to promote health and safety is very important to ensure that the individual is kept safe in the work place. Risk assessments evaluate the risks and identify hazards to put precautions in place to reduce the risks. Reporting and recording the outcome of the risk assessments make things more clear and is careful to keep everybody protected and safe.
Risk assessment- An assessment of any risks to the worker's health and safety is undertaken by a trained risk assessor. This allows for the risks to be removes, reduced or avoided, and for preventive and protective measures to be identifies and
The idea behind a risk assessment is to attempt to identify all the potential risks associated with a particular activity. The risk assessment will normally be carried out by the nominated Health and Safety Officer.
In a school setting, it is compulsory to follow the rules of this act. Schools must have an annual risk assessment so that they can determine areas of the school which could be dangerous; the same applies for activities in the school. They also determine the possibility of specific hazards happening and who in particularly would be at risk.
Risk assessment policy is important to ensure children are safe in the setting and any object or materials that could cause harm are identified and dealt with. It also means that staff will risk assess for any outings that will be made to ensure it is safe for the children. This links to the children Act policy 1989n as it ensures children are effectively looked after and safe from harm in the setting or when on an outing. It is the managers responsibility to ensure staff are completing risk assessments prior to activities or outings so the nursery is a safe environment for the children in their care. " The purpose of this policy is to ensure that any hazards associated with these are identified and removed or minimised to an acceptable level
A risk assessment is used to assess the hazards and risks that can cause harm to individuals in an environment. I did my risk assessment for my placement which is a day nursery setting called Quince Tree. Many parents and their children visit this health and social care setting daily and a risk assessment was needed to make sure their safety was to a high standard.
Risk assessments can help address dilemmas between rights and health and safety concerns by helping reduce any risks created by undergoing certain tasks, risks assessments are not in place to prevent an individual doing things that they want to do, they are in place to concentrate on the risk factors and to look at any other ways to reduce the risk of the task in hand.
Understand how to plan & provide environments & services that support children & young people’s health & safety.
The purpose of risk assessment is not to remove risks, but to take reasonable steps to reduce them. The process involves looking at the risk, and considering what can be done to make it less likely that the risk will develop into a reality. This can be done through implementing policies and codes of practice, acting in individual’s best interests, fostering culture of openness and support being consistent, maintaining professional boundaries and following systems for raising concerns.
Poor hand hygiene - spread of germs from one patient to another or spread for hands to surfaces.
Risks assessments will identify any hazards and/or dangers and who might be harmed and how this may happen, allow the risks to be evaluated and check if the precautions are
4.3: To carry out a risk assessment first of all you need to identify the hazards, then decide who might be harmed and how. Then evaluate the risks and decide on precaution and then record your findings and implement on them. After this is done review your assessment and update if necessary.
Within my role I have to compile risk assessments that recognise the choice and independence of residents, whilst ensuring the safety of residents and staff members. The risk assessment may be regarding social activities that may involve equipment or actions, which could cause harm or injury.