Back Injuries at Work: Prevention and Response

This article discusses the incident of back injuries at work in early childhood education and care, and provides information on preventing and responding to such incidents. It covers the importance of the WHS act 2011 and safety procedures, as well as approaches to decrease the risk of injury. The article also highlights the need for facilities for first aid and emergency transport, and stresses the importance of including safety practices in daily work.

Certificate III in Early
Childhood Education
and Care

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
1. During the participating at the early childhood education and care, a person have got
some back injury when lifting any heavy things to displace one place to another place.
So, this project is based on the incident of back injuries at the time of lifting.
2. When person had get injury then the person was first checked by the service and made
sure that the person Was not in dangerous condition. After ensuring, they provided first
aid to the person. After given first aid service was admit that person in nearby hospitals
(Balladares, and Kankaraš, 2020).
3. Detail physical events that happened at the work and affect physical health of person was
reported in the workplace incident reports. These documents were submitted to the higher
authorities of service managements.
4. At that time, some of the important discussion regarding financial support to that person
was discussed after that incident.
5. WHS that is work health and safety act 2011, was relevant to that incident. Work health
and safety act 2011, identify, control and assess hazards. It provide description for the use
of personal protective equipment, some emergency strategies and procedures.
6. To prevent back injuries, Work place safety procedure should be follow at the workplace.
To prevent the back injuries persons should follow the the work health safety rules and
regulations. (Kuusisto, 2022).
7. There are several approaches by the use of which that person could decrease the accident
like:
 Use appropriate skills to lift some heavy things.
 Use some of the best equipments to uplift that things.
 By improving the right attitude about uplifting heavy things.
8. By using the some danger sign, caution sign and some of the general safety information
sign can be used to decrease that type of incident occur at the work place. Some of the
safe uplifting sign can also be utilise to decrease the risk of injuries at the work place
(Manning, and et. al., 2019).
9. after getting injured, hazards identification process could be change as what is the
appropriate procedure to uplift the heavy substance, appropriate way to minimise the risk
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with uplifting the heavy substances. There are some procedure of identification of
hazards are following:
 Identify the risk
 Evaluate risk
 Take appropriate steps to reduce the risk.
10. In response to the incident, it becomes necessary that all of the work place should have
the facilities to provide first aid and should have facilities of emergency transport.
11. Discuss the main cause of risk with that person and about their body posture and try to
avoid the risk in future. (Torr, 2019).
12. Stress and fatigue level can decrease the concentration of the person, which could
become the cause of incident.
13. By including the safety practice in daily work, anyone can decrease the risk of incident.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Balladares, J. and Kankaraš, M., 2020. Attendance in early childhood education and care
programmes and academic proficiencies at age 15.
Kuusisto, A., 2022. The Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care. In The
Routledge International Handbook of the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education
and Care (pp. 1-16). Routledge.
Manning, M., Wong, G.T., Fleming, C.M. and Garvis, S., 2019. Is teacher qualification
associated with the quality of the early childhood education and care environment? A
meta-analytic review. Review of Educational Research, 89(3), pp.370-415.
Torr, J., 2019. Infants’ Experiences of shared reading with their educators in early childhood
education and care centres: An observational study. Early Childhood Education
Journal, 47(5), pp.519-529.
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