2.1 Demonstrate how to identify potential hazards to the health‚ safety and security of children or young people‚ families and other visitors and colleagues. Food safety:- • Appropriate clothing-when handling food I wear latex gloves and apron and always tie my hair back • Washing hands-children are taught the importance of why washing hands needs to be done when handling food. • Food stock-at our school we have staff who are in charge of making sure the milk and fruit is in date and stored correctly
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gasoline in motor vehicles. Other than the environmental factors like‚ dust‚ soil‚ the use of old ceramic cookware‚ paint chips and folk remedies‚ that expose children to lead hazards‚ old toys containing lead based paint and some toys manufactures in China also contribute to the risk. Children are more open to lead poisoning than adults. Young children often place toys and other objects in their mouth‚ ingesting dust‚ soil and possibly a higher level of lead. The effects of lead poisoning are also much
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worthless. The message that safety begins with individuals taking responsibility for simple things cannot be overemphasised. Next‚ a safe environment meets its registration requirements; there are two registers‚ the Early Years Register (EYR) and the Ofsted Childcare Register (OCR). Settings which provide daycare for children under five have to be registered on the EYR. The OCR has a compulsory part‚ which applies to childminders and providers of childcare for children of formal school age up to eight
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Support Children and Young People’s Health and Safety Outcome 1 1) When planning for young people you need to take several factors into account to make sure the environment and services are safe. The first factor is the individual needs‚ ages and abilities of the children and young people. This requires you to work out staff to children ratio’s to make sure there is legally enough staff for the number of children present and to ensure all children will have supervision. Ratio numbers will
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MU 2.4 - Contribute to children and young people’s health and safety 1.2 Identify the lines of responsibility and reporting for health and safety in the work setting All health and safety issues are to be reported to Lynn Taylor. Lynn then ensures all staff are made aware of the issue and arranges for repair/removal as necessary. All of the current Busy Bees staff are trained first aiders. The Health and safety officer is Lynn Taylor. Lynn completes the yearly risk assessment‚ and all the
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C U 1 5 1 2 Contribute to children and young people’s Health and Safety 1.1 Outline the health and safety policies and procedures of your work setting. My work setting follows the laws and standards set by the Health and Safety Act 1974:- * Ensure that the environment is safe‚ secure with high quality of hygiene practices for staff‚ children and their families and any member of the public while using the premises. * Impose a total ban of smoking in the nursery indoor/ outdoor
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Nutrition in Children and Young People Within this essay I am going to discuss nutrition in children. The definition of nutrition is (Oxford‚ 2013) the process of providing or obtaining food necessary for growth and development. I will consider why nutrition is important; looking at how it benefits children‚ how we get nutrients from food and what nutrients we get from our food‚ as well as looking at a balanced diet. I will then focus my research down into looking at breastfeeding and the composition
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safe indoor and outdoor environments and services are: INDOOR ENVIRONMENT The factors would be based on the age range and ability of the user and this would be taken into account when planning. Risk to toddlers would be different to older children and children with a disability would be different to a child without. If a new child entered this environment that was blind or in a wheelchair a risk assessment would be carried out to ensure they would be able to fully utilise this environment without
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the welfare of children Specific legal requirement areas are: 1. safeguarding My responsibility as a childminder is to ensure the safety and welfare of all the children in my care in line with the procedures laid out by my local Safeguarding Children’s Board. 2. information and complaints/ premises and security 3. outings When taking Children on Outings it is essential that proper planning is done to ensure the safety and welfare of
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Support children and young peoples Health and Safety Task links to learning outcome 1‚ assessment criteria 1.1‚ 1.2‚ 1.3 and 1.4 Describe how current health and safety legislation‚ policies and procedures are implemented in the setting Health and Safety Legislation is there to protect everyone within a setting‚ (everyone being pupils‚ staff and visitors) through policies and procedures for preventing and controlling risk of accidents. All those working in school have a duty to ensure the Health and
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