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.

Upon completion of this course, the 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