Health and Safety in Health and Social Care (RQF)

Syllabus

  • Employers and employees health & safety duties
    • Penalties for non-compliance
    • Training and competence requirements
    • Welfare arrangements
    • Communicating health & safety information
    • Procedures for responding to incidents
    • First aid arrangements
  • Risk assessments
    • Principles of risk control hierarchy
    • Five-step process of risk assessment
  • Personal hygiene
    • Hand washing
    • Protective clothing and equipment
    • Risks of infectious diseases at work and at home
  • How to identify and control hygiene hazards
    • Common hazards in health & social care
    • Contamination
    • Cross-contamination
    • Infection and cross-infection
    • Micro-organisms
    • Controls for common microbiological hazards
  • Clean working environment
    • Suitable premises and equipment
    • Cleaning, disinfection, sterilisation & decontamination
    • Storage of cleaning chemicals & cloths
    • Cleaning schedules
    • Procedures for dealing with waste, sharps & spillages