Importance of Maintaining a Clean and Healthy Environment

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1. A) National Quality standard
Quality area 2: Children’s health and safety
Standard 2.1: Each child’s health is promoted
Standard 2.2: Each child is protected (Australian Children's Education & Care quality
authority. 2017).
b) ELYF has put up a framework for the educators and the care workers working in a child
care centre or institution. The fundamental elements of the ELYF helps the educators to
identify the child’s grievances and interests and helps them to choose an environment that is
secured and safe for the child (LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR AUSTRALIA. 2015).
Learning outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity
Children feel safe, secure, and supported
c) The guide supports the educators to become reflective practitioners by the provision of
critical questions for reflecting upon, ways for promoting culture of identity and a procedure
for the enquiry. In order to create and sustain a culture, it is necessary that all the educators
should get the opportunities to take part in the debate competition, commitment to enquiry at
an organizational level and the courage to question the taken for granted assumptions and
practices .
d) This section outlines that “nutrition and safety” are seen as important for educators to
consider in relation to culture, lifestyle .
It falls under holistic approaches.
e) Children can promote their own safety and can recognize and communicate their own
bodily needs and are happy, healthy and safe and are connected to the others, can involve in
the complex sensory skills and movement, demonstrating spatial awareness and moving
around the environment more confidently and safely, manipulating the tools and the

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equipments with increased competency responded via movement through music and dancing,
display enthusiasm by participating in the physical play (Educators’ Guide to the EARLY
YEARS LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR AUSTRALIA. 2015).
The educators can help in promoting this learning by planning for an energetic play with the
children , drawing on the family and the community experiences for the inclusion of familiar
activities, providing a range of tools as resources for the children.
f) National regulations 77 (Health, hygiene and safe food practices)
National regulation - 168 (Education and care service must have policies and procedures)
g) National Regulations: Regulations 78–80, 168 (Australian Children's Education & Care
quality authority. 2017)

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2. a) The toys should comply with the AS/NZS ISO 8142. The educators should give
consideration to the toys that is safe and age appropriate. Some of the safety practices includes :-
 Storage of the toy or the playing equipment containing hooks, sharp edges , heavy
moving part or any part that can crush or are capable of launching projectiles has to be
kept out of reach of the children.
 The toy storage container should not be with lids that can entrap a small child.
 The toys should be made up of the non-toxic materials.
 The toys has to be large enough so that they cannot be swallowed.
 Secured battery cases should be present for the battery operated toys.
B) In case of identification of a toy with extreme risk, I would inform to the human resource
manager to get rid of the toy and the replace it with something non-hazardous.
3. a)
Area
Importance of maintaining
a clean and healthy
environment
Associated Risk
The Centre
(overall)
A healthy and a clean
environment in a child care
centre is necessary for health,
safety and wellbeing of the
children.
Slippery walkway to school,
discarded hazardous item
scattered on the footpath
Kitchen Kitchen should be kept clean
in order to prevent the
infestation of the pest,
contamination of food and
other potential hazards
related to the kitchen
equipment.
Hot oven , turned on oven,
knives and sharp
instruments , hot fluids
Outdoor
Environmen
t
Outdoor environment should
be kept clean as they are the
dwelling place of the children
during the outdoor play
Debris scattered in the
pathway, nearby water
bodies, presence of thorny
plants