Learn how to notice an unsafe environment using a risk assessment and how to create a fire safety plan.
What are the Fostering Services National Minimum Standards (England) 2011? What is the difference between a risk and a hazard? Why are children in foster care potentially more likely to have an accident in the home? What are the 5 main steps of the risk assessment process? What are the causes of falls, burns, collisions with another person or with an object, and poisoning? How could you of prevented a fall, burn, collision or poisoning? How do you treat a fall, burn, collision and poisoning? Why is drowning risks important to understand.
Our Health and Safety for Foster Carers course will help you answer the questions above and more.
Nearly half of all childhood accidental injuries occur at home or in the garden.
Through our Health and Safety for Foster Carers course, you will gain an understanding of what the Risk Assessment Decision Tree is. You will understand the importance of ladder safety. You will learn what object and equipment should be worn and when they should be. You will learn what electrical hazards are as well as the risks that can be involved. You will learn why children in foster care potentially are more likely to have an accident in the home than a child that is not in foster care.
What you'll learn.
- What are the Fostering Services National Minimum Standards (England) 2011.
- Recognise the different types of hazardous substances that can be found in the home.
- Recognise your legal responsibilities within the Health and Safety legislation.
- Understand the importance of checking carbon monoxide detectors and smoke detectors.
- Demonstrate how to correctly fill out a child centred risk assessment.
- Develop knowledge of what is hazardous waste and what is not.
- Explore reasons to why car safety is important.
Who is Health & Safety for Foster Carers for?
Our Health and Safety for Foster Carers course is for people who work in a foster care agency or that are a foster carer themselves. This course will provide the delegates with knowledge and skills to make the home safer for the children/ child and to try and prevent injury.
What are the learning outcomes?
- State the most common causes of injuries in a home.
- Explain what the hierarchy of control measures is.
- Recognise why infection control measures are important.
- Be able to identify when a risk assessment should be carried out.
- Discuss why having knowledge of sharp injuries with children is important for foster carers to have.
- Evaluate what COSHH signs look like.
- Develop knowledge, skills, and strategies to develop positive safe environments for the children in homes.
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