Unit 2 - Health and Safety - Edexcel
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|Qualification |Unit number and title |
|BTEC Level 1 Award and Certificate in Introduction to Health and |Unit 2: Awareness of Health and Safety in Health and Social Care (Adults and Children and |
|Social Care (Adults and Children and Young People), Early Years and |Young People), Early Years and Childcare |
|Childcare (Wales and Northern Ireland) (QCF) | |
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|Assignment title |Health and Safety in the Workplace |
|In this assessment you will have opportunities to provide evidence against the following criteria. |
|Indicate the page numbers where the evidence can be found. |
|Criteria |To achieve the criteria the evidence must show that | |Task no. | |Evidence |
|reference |the student is able to: | | | | |
|1.1 |Identify key areas that would be pertinent to health and safety in a work setting. | |1 | | |
|1.2 |Outline employers’ responsibilities for health and safety. | |1 | | |
|1.3 |Outline workers’ responsibilities for health and safety. | |1 | | |
|2.1 |Identify hazards in an environment. | |2 | | |
|2.1 |Define ‘risk’. | |2 | | |
|2.3 |Outline the purpose of risk assessments. | |2 | | |
|2.4 |Outline how risk assessments can support a person-centred or child-centred approach. | |2 | | |
|2.5 |Identify occasions when a risk assessment is necessary. | |2 | | |
|2.6 |Outline the key components of a risk assessment. | |2 | | |
|2.7 |Describe steps that can be taken to minimise hazards and risks. | |2 | | |
|3.1 |Describe how infection is spread. | |3 | | |
|3.2 |Identify methods that reduce the spread of infection. | |3 | | |
|3.3 |Describe the standard method of washing hands. | |3 | | |
|3.4 |Identify when personal protective equipment should be used. | |3 | | |
|Learner declaration |
|I certify that the work submitted for this assignment is my own and research sources are fully acknowledged. |
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|Learner signature: Date: |
|Assignment brief |
|Qualification |BTEC Level 1 Award and Certificate in Introduction to Health and Social Care (Adults and Children and Young |
| |People), Early Years and Childcare (Wales and Northern Ireland) (QCF) |
|Unit number and title |Unit 2: Awareness of Health and Safety in Health and Social Care (Adults and Children and Young People), Early |
| |Years and Childcare |
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|Assignment title |Health and Safety in the Workplace |
|The purpose of this example assignment is to develop your knowledge and awareness of health and safety, including the importance of recognising risks, |
|preventing the spread of infection and understanding your own responsibilities for health and safety. |
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|You have been asked to help with a programme of staff training and development about health and safety. The aims of the training programme are to: |
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|improve workers’ understanding about their responsibilities in relation to health and safety |
|promote best practice in the principles of moving and handling, assessing risks and preventing the spread of infection in the workplace |
|develop workers’ awareness of security issues and dealing with accidents and sudden illness. |
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|Produce an illustrated poster, which could be used in a staffroom to inform workers about key areas of health and safety. Your poster should: |
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|identify four key areas of health and safety, related to work settings in health and social care or children and young people |
|outline three responsibilities of the employer for health and safety |
|outline two responsibilities of workers for health and safety |
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|Complete the table below, which is designed to help staff improve their knowledge and understanding about hazards and risks. |
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|Give eight examples of hazards in health and social care (adults and children and young people) early years and childcare settings (photographs can be used to |
|illustrate the hazards) |
|How can the risks caused by these hazards be minimised? |
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|Outline what is meant by ‘risk’ |
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|Outline the purpose of risk assessments in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings |
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|Outline how risk assessments can support a person-centred or a child-centred approach. |
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|Outline the key components of a risk assessment |
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|Identify four occasions when a risk assessment would be necessary in a health, social care or children’s and young people’s setting |
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|Task 3 |
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|Prepare a short presentation that could be used as part of a staff training session about preventing the spread of infection. Your presentation should: |
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|describe four different ways that infection can be spread |
|identify methods that can reduce the spread of infection for each of the four ways mentioned above |
|identify when personal protective equipment should be used in preventing the spread of infection |
|describe the standard method for washing hands |
|You can use illustrations, handouts, PowerPoint, physical demonstrations or other suitable aids as part of your presentation. |
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|You will need to submit your notes and any other support materials used in your presentation as evidence towards your assessment. |
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|Note to tutors |
|This task could involve some element of peer assessment to enable learners to review and reflect on their own work and that of their colleagues. |
|Learners could be encouraged to carry out a practical hand washing demonstration and to provide a commentary as part of their assessment for this task. (This |
|could be taped in addition to being witnessed by the tutor). |
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|Case studies, |
|Newspapers |
|Professional magazines |
|Visits to settings |
|Training DVDs |
|This brief has been verified as being fit for purpose |
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