Childcare and Education: Concepts and Regulations

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Question 1/22
Read the case study below and answer the questions that follow. Indicate in the space
provided which question you are answering.
This afternoon, educator Josephine was making standing on a chair to display children's
artwork on the wall of the service. While hanging up some of the paintings, Josephine slipped
and fell off the chair, injuring her right elbow. First aid was administered, but it was decided
to take her to the hospital emergency ward for treatment of her injury.
a) Locate an incident report template, either in your workplace or online. List at least six (6)
sections that must be filled out on an incident report when recording incidents.
Employee name
Title/role
Date/time of incident
Incident description with all events leading to or immediately following that particular
incident
Task leading to incident
Witness name and contact
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Staff explanation of events/circumstances following the incident
Resulting action that was executed or typically recommended to be undertaken
b) List the common steps you should take if a workplace incident occurs.
Acquire a plan to secure and manage the incident scene
Properly evaluate and examine the injury and conduct investigation
Ensure each particular kind of workplace incident reports forms are actionable to roll
Visit the healthcare without any unnecessary delay
Report immediately with fresh description and details. Create a final report and make design
appropriate recommendations
Check in constantly with your existing employees or staff/follow up
c) Who should you notify if an incident occurs in the workplace?
The statutory reporting requirement indicates that in case an accident or injury affects a
particular employee in a workplace setting, the employer should immediately notify the
relevant commissioner in the prescribed form
The employee should also inform the supervisor immediately after incident occurrence
Question 2/22
Research your relevant state/territory WHS legislation and summarise what is covered in
relation to the topics listed below. Indicate in the space provided which topic you are
providing an answer for.
a) Name of the legislation
Best Practice Regulation
b) State/territory WHS authority
Victoria state
c) Rights and responsibilities of employer
1. Duty of care
2. Workplace agreements
3. Legislative needs for workers dismall
4. Relevant and necessary state and territoriakl employment legislation
5. Protecting employees’ rights, needs
d) Your rights and responsibilities
1. Avoiding getting into dangerous tasks
2. Following employers instructions
3. Carrying out duties diligently
4. Right to be protected
5. No discrimination
e) Workplace health and safety policies and procedures
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Proper and constant consultation with the workers regarding work health and safety would be
accomplished.
The procedures should be documented in written form in order to issue out clarity and certain
at the work setting and provide critical workers compliance (Gilley, Tayler, Niklas & Cloney,
2015, p.9).The procedures should also be highly accessible. They should be continuously
communicated to individual’s workers to whom the policies apply. Many work areas should
have a given health and safety committees who play a vital role in development of policy
standards, rules, regulations and important procedures. The workers should adhere to the
adhere or cooperate with the relevant policies as indicated in the work health and safety act
f) Consequences of breaches of WHS responsibilities
My relevant state territory is Victoria
Consequences
Victoria’s health and safety in a workplace regulation gives various corrective procedures and
enforcement alternatives. These usually include provisional improvement notices (PINs) that
are provide by existing occupational health and safety authorities or representatives. There
are also improvement and prohibition issue notices and on spot consequence fines charged by
Worksafe Victoria state regular inspectors. Breaching these processes result to relatively
heavy fines and serious penalties.
Question 3/22
In your own words, provide a brief summary of the Education and Care Services National
Law and Regulations, and the National Quality Standards.
These laws and regulations contributed to the setting of the national quality standard and
offered a significant regulatory framework for development of both education childcare
services in the present day Australia state. These involves whole day care and family day care
these are aimed to benefit preschools/kindergartens and also away from normal school hours
care. Teachers and educators who work closely to children need to understand the needs of
the laws and regulations.
The national law. This involves a national, uniform and managed jointly conceptual approach
to ensure proper assessment of education and childcare services. It was cooperatively grown,
passed by Victorian territory and applied in others territories and states.
The national regulations. This contributes to providing various needs for education and
childcare services in several Australia territories. They give assess clearly and provide a
particular rating process (Gilley et al 2015,p.9).They also give needs for preparing, evaluating
and reviewing QIP.They provides a platform for a process to critically establish distinct
rating levels for care and education services. Therefore they both sets national standards for
children’s education and proper care across all territories in Australia
You may like to refer to your reading ‘Guide to the National Quality Framework’ to assist
you with this task.
Question 4/22
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