Cyp Core 3.4: Support Children and Young People’s Health and Safety.

Task 4Ensuring health and safety is an important responsibility not only for the Managers but all associated with the premises. Evaluate your organisation’s health and safety policy and procedures in line with legislative requirements and propose recommendations on how health and safety should be managed

Unit 027, 1.1 - Describe the factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services.

The implementation of Health and Safety policy and to liaise with the governors to ensure full compliance with all its requirements.

Outcome 1 - Understand own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety

Describe the factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services.

Describe the factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services.

CYPCore 34-1.1 Describe the factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor and outdoor environments and services.

Factors to take into account when planning healthy and safe indoor & outdoor environments & services.

|Explain how to create a safe and suitable environment for practitioners and clients | |Every organisation should have specific safety policies and plans tailored to their business and work environment, depending on| |what type of safety issues are relevant. By training all employees thoroughly in the safety policies, the organisation can | |ensure that an environment or situation is safe for all. Additionally, seeking the involvement of staff in drawing up plans or | |adding to them is an excellent way to obtain “buy in” and maintain compliance. | |When practitioners meet

3. Explain how risk assessment can help address dilemmas between rights and health and safety concerns

The children act 1989 has influenced some settings by bringing together several sets of guidance and provided the foundation for many of the standards practitioners sustain and maintain when working with children. The act requires that settings work together in the best interests of the child and form partnerships with parents or carers. It requires settings to have appropriate adult to child ratios and policies and procedures on child protection. This act has had an influence in all areas of practice from planning a curriculum and record keeping. The every child matters framework has

There are many legislation acts relating to health and safety. These include :- • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 • Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulation (COSHH) • Manual Handling legislation 1992 • Reporting of injuries, dies eases and dangerous occurrences regulations (RIDDOR) • Food Safety Act 1990 • Health and Safety First Aid Regulations 1981 1.2 The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 states the employer, employees and service users have a responsibility to ensure safety is well maintained in your place of work. Policies and procedures protect people by providing a set of rules and regulations that must be followed by care staff and organisations.

The fundamental point of the regulation is to diminish risk by requiring the evaluation of all potential dangers and the establishing plans in the case of emergencies. The regulation forces an obligation on employers to review all likely dangers for all their employees. Employers must complete and review all risk assessments at set times and make adjustments to security plans if there are any critical changes.

When looking at the indoor area, it must have equipment that can be used safely and effectively when needed however there must also be no open socket that the children hurt themselves, there must be a reasonable area of space so that they can get around without injuring themselves. Indoor area must have fire exits so that the children are able to get out in case of fire.

Work place policy and procedure these policy explain how the organisation takes the responsibility of health and safety procedure and they take a responsibility of ant accident that happens in their organisation. They prepare their own statement which include “risk assessments, fire safety, first aid, accident reporting, electrical safety, work equipment, hazardous substances, manual handling and other workplace issues”(http://www.healthyworkinglives.com/advice/Legislation-and-policy/Workplace -Health-and-Safety/health-safety-policy) and it must be bring to the attention of all employee.