Health and Safety in Care Homes

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Course Overview

CPD & IIRSM Approved

Health and Safety in Care Homes cover building work procedures, management and staff responsibilities, and the laws that apply to nursing homes. Many organizations, including local governments, the NHS, as well as those in the commercial and nonprofit sectors, own and operate care homes. They are distinct from other workplaces since they serve as both a place of employment and a residence for the people who live there.
They ought to be locations where residents’ freedom and dignity are honored. Everyone engaged must be aware of their duties in order to accomplish this. Health and Safety in Care Homes covers building work procedures, management and staff responsibilities, and the laws that apply to nursing homes. Also, it covers emergency circumstances as well as some frequent hazards you can run against. Several issues of the working environment and employee wellbeing are covered in the conclusion.

Learning Outcomes

• Recognize that a care home serves as both a place of employment and a home for its residents.
• Describe the laws governing health and safety in this place of employment and residence.
• Recognize that maintaining health and safety is a shared responsibility between the company and the employee.
• Recognize potential dangers and diseases that may endanger the health of residents and staff.
• Describe and ensure that everyone in the family is aware of risk assessments and other safety measures.

Target Audience

Anybody working in the care industry should use this course as an introduction to health and safety at their place of employment.

Advantages

As this course covers a wide range of health and safety situations the course provides a strong basis
to further build on with more training.
Those who need to demonstrate their ongoing professional development can use this course because it has CPD accreditation.
developing themselves.
Online training is flexible, efficient and cost effective meaning the candidate can progress through
the modules at their own pace and in their own time, so they can fit the training in around their
work and personal life.

Further Progression

Other courses in our Health and Social Care suite compliment this one and when combined can form
the basis for the candidates work towards achieving their Care Certificate.

Duration: 80 minutes (Note: This is an approximate estimate based on the length of the video content provided.
It does not account in any way for loading time or thinking time on the questions).