Safety, Health & Hygiene

Suitable for...

• candidates new to Health & Safety
• candidates wishing to refresh knowledge

Course Content

• What is Health and Safety
• Legal overview
• Responsibilities
• Reporting and recording
• RIDDOR
• COSHH
• Hazard identification

Assessment

• Questionning

Suitable for...

• candidates with some prior knowledge of Health & Safety.
• candidates wishing to build on knowledge

Course Content

• What is Health and Safety
• Legal overview
• Responsibilities
• Reporting and recording
• RIDDOR
• COSHH
• Hazard identification
• Fire safety
• Manual handling
• Infection control

Assessment

• Oral and written questionning

Suitable for...

• candidates new to food safety
• candidates wishing to refresh knowledge

Course content

• Introduction to food safety
• The law
• Food safety hazards
• Storage
• Cooking
• Cleaning

Assessment

• Questionnning

Suitable for...

• candidates with a previous knowledge of food safety
• candidates wishing to develop knowledge

Course content

• Introduction to food safety
• The law
• Food safety hazards
• Taking temperatures
• Refrigeration
• Cooking
• Food handlers
• Principles of safe storage
• Cleaning
• Food premises and equipment

Assessment

• Questionnning

Suitable for...

• all staff as part of basic staff training/induction as required by HASAWA 1974

Course content

• Good house keeping methods
• Fire action awareness
• Fire fighting equipment
• Compartmentation
• Fire safety in the workplace

Assessment

• Questionning

Suitable for...

• All staff working in health and social care must recieve infection control training annually according to infection prevention and control minimum standards 2005

Course Content

• Legislation
• Micro-organisms
• Minimum standards
• Hand hygiene
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Safe handling and disposal of sharps
• Safe handling and disposal of clinical waste
• Managing blood and body fluids
• Linen and laundry

Assessment

• Questionning

Suitable for..

• all staff in line with HASAWA 1974

Course content

• Employers and employees responsibilities
• Anatomy and physiology
• Rules of manual handing
• Risk assessment
• Moving a load from waist height
• Moving a load from the floor

Assessment

• Questionning
• Practical physical skills assessment

Suitable for...

• all staff who are responsible for people handling in line with HASAWA 1974

Course content

• Employers and employees responsibilities
• Anatomy and physiology
• Rules of manual handing
• Risk assessment
• Moving a load from waist height
• Moving a load from the floor
• Sit to stand
• Guided walking
• Laying to sitting
• Use of mobility aids
• Use of handling aids

Assessment

• Questionning
• Practical physical skills assessment

Positive & Safe / Physical Interventions

Level 1: Non-physical strategies for preventing and managing challenging behaviour in a positive way

 To provide learners with the essential knowledge to:

• Work within local and National policies and guidelines
• Identify and develop methods of positively supporting service users with challenging behaviour
• Define challenging behaviour and identify the causes and triggers to challenging behaviour
• Manage challenging behaviours using a person centred approach
• Identify strategies for defusing incidents and to support safe practice before, during and after an incident
• To understand how people can be affected during and after an incident and to monitor your own response
• To deal with the post incident issues

Level 2: Responding and supporting positively to low risk physically challenging behaviour

 To provide learners with the essential knowledge and skills to:

• Work within policies and guidelines
• Identify and develop methods of positively supporting service users with physically challenging behaviour
• Respond in a positive way to physically challenging behaviour

Level 3: Responding and supporting positively to higher risk physically challenging behaviour

To provide learners with the essential knowledge and skills to:

• Work within policies and guidelines
• Identify and develop methods of positively supporting service users with physically challenging behaviour
• Respond in a positive way to physically challenging behaviour

Level 4: Positive Behavioural Support with Physical intervention and safe holding

To provide Learners with the essential knowledge and skills to:

• Work within policies and guidelines
• Identify and develop methods of positively supporting service users with physically challenging behaviour
• Respond in a positive way to physically challenging behaviour
• Physically intervene in a situation whereby failure to do so would result in injury or harm to those involved