Health, Safety and Welfare
Accidents can have many serious consequences on an individual’s health, family and social life, as well as having a major financial impact. This is why it is important to do all we can to avoid accidents in the workplace. Everyone has a legal duty for each other’s safety at work. Employers and employees must work together to make sure we maintain a safe work environment.
This CSTF-aligned Health, Safety and Welfcare course covers the responsibilities of both employers and employees in ensuring that facilities are safe for staff, patients and visitors. The course also looks at how to manage risk and the procedures for reporting health and safety violations.
All staff, including unpaid and voluntary staff.
This course is made up of the following modules:
- The importance of health and safety
- Risk assessment
- Risk management
- Reporting
- Assessment
Upon completion, learners will gain:
- Staff and organisational compliance with relevant regulation and guidelines – both national and local.
- Ability to assess and minimise workplace risks.
- Ability to reduce negligence, accidents and incidents.
- Ability to ensure the safety of patients, service users and visitors.
This course meets the learning outcomes for Subject 3: Health, Safety and Welfare of the Core Skills Training Framework and standard 13 of the Care Certificate Standard.
Subject 3: Health, Safety and Welfare
The learner will:
- understand the organisation’s commitment to delivering services safely
- understand the importance of acting in ways that are consistent with legislation, policies and procedures for maintaining own and others’ health and safety
- know the organisation’s arrangements for consulting with employees on health and safety matters
- be able to locate the organisation’s health and safety policy and the arrangements for implementing it
- understand the meaning of hazard, risk and risk assessment
- be able to recognise common work place hazards including:
- electricity
- slips and trips, falls
- chemicals and substances
- stress
- physical and verbal abuse
- traffic routes
- display screen equipment (DSE), workstations and the working environment.
- understand how any identified risks might be managed through balanced and appropriate preventive and protective measures
- understand how they could apply and promote safe working practices specific to their job role
- know the actions they should take to ensure patient safety
- understand the importance of reporting health and safety concerns
- know the reporting processes used and how the organisation uses the information gathered to help manage risks
- know how to raise health and safety concerns
- understand individual responsibilities in reporting incidents, ill health and near misses.
The Care Certificate Standards
Standard 13: Health and Safety
- 13.1 Understand their own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety in the work setting
- 13.2 Understand Risk Assessment
- 13.3 Move and assist safely
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