EDEXCEL BTEC First Diploma in Health and Social Care - DOC

							              EDEXCEL Level 2 Diploma in Health and Social Care

        Unit 4 Ensuring Safe Environments in Health and Social Care

                  Identify Potential Hazards That Might
                     Arise in Health and Social Care
                               Environments

                                      Grading Criteria
                                             P1


Setting the scene
When we work in a care environment, be it someone’s home or a more formal setting, we
must know what action to take when things go wrong. We must know the actions we should
take to reduce the number of potential accidents. There are rules and regulations that
outline how we are to ensure that everyone is safe at all times.

Scenario
You have a role as a health and safety co-ordinator in a health and social care setting, This
involves updating health and safety displays and information for staff and service users.
The posters displays and information booklets are out of date and scruffy and need to be
updated and refreshed.


Key skills
IE3, CT4, RL5, TW1 TW2, SM3, SM5

Learning Outcome 1
Know potential hazards in health and social care environments
    Hazards ; as relevant to health and social care environment e.g. rooms or outside
     recreational areas that pose a particular risk to individual service users, equipment
     / toys in a poor state of repair, incorrect storage of chemicals, inadequate control
     of infectious diseases, fire, poor working conditions, unsafe furnishings,
     inappropriate furnishings for patients / service users, inappropriate use of
     specialist equipment, insufficient equipment maintenance, poor staff training, lack
     of security measures, poor building maintenance, inadequate personal safety
     precautions, close proximity to radio transmissions, pollution of air and/or water,
     abuse.
    Responsibilities ; employers, employees, service users
Task (P1)
Produce a poster covering potential hazards in health and social care environments and
methods used to reduce risks.



                   You have 4 lessons to complete this piece of work

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