P1 Unit 3 Health Safety And Security
952502362200Abigail Webb
Unit 3 Health, Safety and Security
P1
Danae Copley
20050608
Abigail Webb
Unit 3 Health, Safety and Security
P1
Danae Copley
20050608
P1
In this assignment I will be explaining the potential health, security and safety hazards within a nursery setting.
Health Hazards
There can be a number of health hazards within a nursery one major hazard being solid nappies which obviously occurs in nurseries because young children attend and most don’t become potty trained until the age of 2 or above. Solid nappies can be a major hazard because it’s somebody else’s waste which can contains lots of nasty germs which can cause some serious health problems (http://ipcblog.org/2012/08/07/i-didn%E2%80%99t-know-that-poop-could-be-so-harmful-2/)! …show more content…
A serious safety hazard in a nursery setting is plug sockets, in the nursery itself it should have all plug sockets covered to prevent any electrocutions if a child was to stick it’s fingers in the holes they would cause a great deal of harm to themselves. In a nursery setting it is very rare to hear about a child being a electrocuted because all nursery take the precaution to save children’s lives’ and to cover the plug sockets the uses plastic plug covers! Another safety hazard which can occur in a nursery environment is the kitchen, this is a place where knifes are, chemicals and other dangerous hazards and if a child was to enter here when people are preparing food and they get hold of a kitchen utensil lots of damage and chaos can be caused. Lots of other issues can be caused like they could get hold of cleaning chemicals and cause lots of harm to themselves. In order to prevent children from going into the kitchen and harming themselves and others nursery staff can do a number of things, they can put a chair gate in place to prevent children from entering the kitchen. If a child was to enter the kitchen attended by a member of staff child locks on cupboards is essential so that they don’t have access to cleaning chemicals of cooking …show more content…
This is used in a lot of nurseries for when grandparents of family friends who haven’t picked the child people they say this word as staff know what child they are picking up! However this system may sound like a good idea but issues can arise in the long term i.e. a stranger knows the password and decides to pick up the child, even though this is highly unlikely to happen it might have happened in certain places within the world. To prevent from anything like this happening changing the password regularly may be ideal so that staff know if they are actually here to collect the child for their parents or here to cause some sort of trouble. Another security hazard within a nursery hazard is front and back doors, these are a security hazard because members of the public may be able to access these doors which could cause a certain amount of issues i.e. kidnapping etc., also children may be able to reach the door handles so they can open them and escape from the nursery building. In order to stop issues like these, looking the doors from the inside is essential to stop people entering the door without authorisation, also stops children from leaving the building. A doorbell is ideal for outside the nursery building so that staff knows when people are here to collect their children
Unit 3 Health, Safety and Security
P1
Danae Copley
20050608
Abigail Webb
Unit 3 Health, Safety and Security
P1
Danae Copley
20050608
P1
In this assignment I will be explaining the potential health, security and safety hazards within a nursery setting.
Health Hazards
There can be a number of health hazards within a nursery one major hazard being solid nappies which obviously occurs in nurseries because young children attend and most don’t become potty trained until the age of 2 or above. Solid nappies can be a major hazard because it’s somebody else’s waste which can contains lots of nasty germs which can cause some serious health problems (http://ipcblog.org/2012/08/07/i-didn%E2%80%99t-know-that-poop-could-be-so-harmful-2/)! …show more content…
A serious safety hazard in a nursery setting is plug sockets, in the nursery itself it should have all plug sockets covered to prevent any electrocutions if a child was to stick it’s fingers in the holes they would cause a great deal of harm to themselves. In a nursery setting it is very rare to hear about a child being a electrocuted because all nursery take the precaution to save children’s lives’ and to cover the plug sockets the uses plastic plug covers! Another safety hazard which can occur in a nursery environment is the kitchen, this is a place where knifes are, chemicals and other dangerous hazards and if a child was to enter here when people are preparing food and they get hold of a kitchen utensil lots of damage and chaos can be caused. Lots of other issues can be caused like they could get hold of cleaning chemicals and cause lots of harm to themselves. In order to prevent children from going into the kitchen and harming themselves and others nursery staff can do a number of things, they can put a chair gate in place to prevent children from entering the kitchen. If a child was to enter the kitchen attended by a member of staff child locks on cupboards is essential so that they don’t have access to cleaning chemicals of cooking …show more content…
This is used in a lot of nurseries for when grandparents of family friends who haven’t picked the child people they say this word as staff know what child they are picking up! However this system may sound like a good idea but issues can arise in the long term i.e. a stranger knows the password and decides to pick up the child, even though this is highly unlikely to happen it might have happened in certain places within the world. To prevent from anything like this happening changing the password regularly may be ideal so that staff know if they are actually here to collect the child for their parents or here to cause some sort of trouble. Another security hazard within a nursery hazard is front and back doors, these are a security hazard because members of the public may be able to access these doors which could cause a certain amount of issues i.e. kidnapping etc., also children may be able to reach the door handles so they can open them and escape from the nursery building. In order to stop issues like these, looking the doors from the inside is essential to stop people entering the door without authorisation, also stops children from leaving the building. A doorbell is ideal for outside the nursery building so that staff knows when people are here to collect their children