measures should help them to do this safety‚ not stop them. It is important that children learn to understand and manage the risks that are a normal part of life. Common sense should be used in assessing and managing the risks of any activity. Health and safety procedures should always be proportionate to the risks of an activity. Staff should be given the training they need so they can keep themselves and children safe and manage risks effectively. The main legislation covering this area is the Health
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As practitioners‚ our main concern is to keep children safe from harm. Doing this can be very hard‚ as at the same time we need to encourage them to experience risk and challenges. If we try to remove all risks from children’s lives we could be risking to restrict their learning experiences. Some risks obviously need to be avoided and we wouldn’t be competent in our role of caring for children and young people if we didn’t protect them from these dangers. Faulty electrical equipment and poisonous
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Q: Why is it important to take a balanced approach to risk assessment? It is important you have a balanced approach towards risk assessments. You must always make sure that children are not at any risk but sometimes you may give them the freedom to do something knowing they won’t hurt their self but will learn from it. For example if a child was walking along a balancing beam that wasn’t very high with a soft surface underneath then they wouldn’t be at risk of any danger‚ they may fall but it
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Do Not Take The Risk For most people in America‚ the idea of war is far off‚ something experienced from a far. However‚ in many other countries across the world‚ war is an everyday life. Thousands of children from places like the Central African Republic‚ Chad‚ Somalia‚ Uganda‚ Myanmar‚ Sudan‚ Iraq‚ Colombia and Sri Lanka‚ fight in armies and battle every day. For them‚ killing is all they know. People have witnessed parents‚ siblings‚ and friends be gunned down by young‚ violent adolescents who
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Risk Management Approach We have recently have been privileged in meeting and hearing the President of the United States of America speak at our school. Before his arrival we‚ and the secret service would had to have perform risk management approach ensuring the safety of the president and everyone in the vicinity of the president. It is important that before his arrival we are able to identify all the potential risks when he comes to Hartford. Secondly after identifying the risks we given
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To Be or Not Be Child Day Care I think that the research done by Tiffany fields‚ in the article “Today care or not today care: that is the question” answer a lot of question I had about daycare. does early child day care help with the social and development of an infant‚ is it really a step in the game‚ or is it just a waste of time for children to be in daycare from such a young age? Fields‚ conducts studies from early age on “quality infant day-care and grade school behavior and performance”
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health and safety of staff‚ pupils and visitors while on school premises or involved in school-organised activities (e.g. educational visits) must be protected as far as is reasonably practicable. Risk assessments should be undertaken for all activities and measures put in place to minimise or control risks. If schools fail to develop and implement the necessary health and safety policies this can have serious consequences. The case of an 11 year old pupil who died from an asthma attack after being
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Explain what is meant by a balanced approach to risk management. A risk is the possibility of a hazard’s potential being realised. A balanced approach to risk management is basically weighing up the benefits against the chances of harm and the severity of such harm. In schools risk assessments are necessary to note any hazards which could cause harm and are therefore a potential risk. Risk assessments need to be carried out in a way which minimises the risk but is also practical. There is a need
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Taking Risks What I Already Known/What I Want to Know While reading Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air‚ I began to wonder why individuals take extreme risks. Over the course of this novel‚ a team of highly trained mountain climbers attempts to climb Mount Everest in 1996. Several die‚ get injured‚ and go missing. Death becomes very familiar to the team of climbers. In the book‚ Hall and Hansen get stranded‚ Hansen runs out of supplemental oxygen and cannot continue; Fischer also gets stranded‚ Hansen
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It is important to care for your body so you can stay healthy and live well. Your body is made up of systems that each have a job to do. The muscular system is comprised of all the muscles in your body. Muscles are elastic and because of that your muscles could move the organs and bones that they are attached to. So you should protect your muscular system because every part of your body relies on it. Caring for your muscular system can also help prevent health problems and injuries. Some of the injuries
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