Home Care 5: Health & Safety - BVS Training

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BRAND NEW FOR 2018! Replacement for previous 'Home Care 5 - Health & Safety' video course, with all-new content, additional sections and fully updated with the latest best-practice guidelines and shot in HD, in new locations, with new actors.

This training package is designed exclusively for those providing care within the home care setting and explores health and safety within the person you support's own home. In considering the home carer’s duty of care to person they're supporting and self it aims to improve awareness of common hazards about the home whilst considering the importance of referring to risk assessments and care plans.

It discusses the need for improved awareness of the importance of good housekeeping when storing or disposing of chemicals, dangerous substances or sharp objects and develops an awareness of the need for safe practice in moving & handling, food hygiene, infection control and fire safety. The video goes on to briefly introduce the need to consider personal safety when visiting the homes of people you support and the importance of raising issues of concern with management and reporting injury and ill health.

Subjects covered include:

The Law • The Care Workers' Responsibilities • Risk Assessment and the Care Plan • Slips,Trips and Falls • Moving and Assisting • COSHH • Infection Control • Food Safety • Work Equipment, Gas and Electrical Safety • Fire Safety • Injury and Disease • First Aid • Personal Safety • Occupational Stress • Summary

Video Format
DVD or Download

Duration
36 minute video in 16 sections to be used in a suggested 3 hour training session

Supporting Materials
Contains a Lesson plan, Handouts, Question and Answer sheets, Care Certificate Workbook and a CPD Accredited Certificate

Consultant
Chris Doyle, CMIOSH, Cert Ed.

Peer Review
No

Standards
Care Certificate Standard 13
All Wales Induction Framework for Health and Social Care (AWIFHSC) Sections 5, 6 & 7
NOS: CHS2, CHS 6, SCDHSC0223, SCDHSC0032
QCF: Unit ref: R/601/8922, F/601/8138, J601/8027, T/502/7583, A/601/9420