Child Care Safety and Immunization

This assignment focuses on two key aspects of child care: safety and health. The first section delves into hazard control methods used in child care settings, including elimination, substitution, isolation, and engineering controls. It also provides contact information for the Australian Poisons Information Hotline. The second section examines immunization, explaining its importance in protecting children from infectious diseases, the process of vaccination, and the rationale behind immunizing children. Additionally, it outlines an example of an emergency evacuation procedure in a child care setting, emphasizing the need for clear communication, staff training, and awareness among both caregivers and parents.

Running head: ESTABLISH AND DEVELOP HEALTH AND SAFETY
Establish and Develop Health and Safety
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Table of Contents
Assessment 1...................................................................................................................................2
Assessment 2...................................................................................................................................6
RESEARCH PROJECT A...........................................................................................................6
RESEARCH PROJECT B...........................................................................................................7

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Assessment 1
1. It is important that the policy must ensure that it will look after the children’s medical and
routine requirements with parents. It also ensures that the children should take their food
proper way which must be healthy for them. Along with the physical activity and healthy
lifestyles are also providing to them. The parents must visit for regular health checkups
for their children and consult with appropriate authorities.
2. According to the National Quality Standard 2.1.1 under a service medical condition
policy the enrolment forms has been proceed which contains health information and
authorizations for each child which are enrolled. This policy will help the children to get
supports for their health and physical wellbeing. Under the enrollment process the
administrator who took responsibility for the medication of the child can have the access
to the information about the children’s health.
3. It is necessary a rest/sleep/relaxation/quite areas is needed for the children who attend
child care because the children need to be relaxed in a comfortable relaxing environment
for resting their bodies. The relaxation will help them to get back their energy if the child
is sick. The provided relation environment should be safe and well supervised which will
provide safe, secure and healthy benefits to them.
4. The rest areas and sleeping equipment that should be made available for babies and older
children are cots, portable cots, mattresses, prams and strollers, the hygiene policies
where all the equipments will be cleaned in a proper way, sleep wares. Hanging cords or
strings from blinds, curtains, mobiles or electrical appliances must be kept away from
cots or mattresses to prevent a child from choking or hanging.

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5. Every time it is necessary that all the equipments should be cleaned. The baby cots,
mattress should be cleaned with proper cleaning process which helps to keep it hygienic.
It is the duty of the supervisor that they will look after every cleaning process. Every
baby should have their own bed linen and after taking rest the resting mattress should be
cleaned. The other materials like and mattresses are also cleaned by regularly.
6. It is necessary for the children who came for child care; their rest room should be a silent
place where the environments will comforts the babies to get rest before and after they
take rest of the medication process. In the room the equipments should be cleaned and
safe for the children and must not create any noise which can disturb them while they are
resting or sleeping.
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8. The supervisor must remove those toys which a child has sneeze or coughed while
playing with it. The toys should be cleaned by wearing hand gloves. The toys should be
washed in warm water and detergent and dry with clean cloth or better to dry in the sun.
The broken toys always are removed because it may hurt any child. The cleaning
equipments are also must not harm the health of the child.
9. The staffs should look after the children that they must not through sand or tire chips and
must not climb up the slides. Children must slide feet first down the slide and must be on
their bottoms. The outside toys are not allowed inside the child care. The children are
only allowed to sit in swing alone and nobody is allowed to stand near the swing.
10. The children who are aged less than 5 years are more sensitive rather than older children.
They are needed to be taken care with extra attention which is necessary for running the

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child care. Those children are not able to take care of them themselves therefore they are
needed to taken care of every issues under some staffs who are expert of it.
11. When the education programmer planned for an excursion they should undertake risk
management. The risk management should be processed under some emergency
procedures. In an excursion a lot of people are getting involved in the process to deal
with the hazardous. They organization should have a backup plan to deal with the risk
and they will consider the seriousness of the risk associated risk managements.
According to the hazards they will deal with the issue of risk management.
12. If it has been found that broken glasses in the child play area then I will make it sure that
no child will play on that place and the persons are must make the distances from the
hazard palaces. After that the cleaning staffs should clean the broken pieces of the glass
because it may harm someone. It is the duty of the staff of the child care that they must
take care of the outdoor places.
13. The hazardous processes are elimination which helps to removes the damages of danger.
The substitution is a process where it helps to control hazards by replacing the issues with
a less risky way to achieve the same outcomes. the isolation is another process which
helps to separate the hazard from the people at risk by isolating it. the engineering is a
process which helps in engendering and helps in making physical changes for the less
risks.
14. The phone number for poisons information hotline (Australia) is 13 11 26. Before listing
the Poisons Information Centre number for the product or SDS it is needed to must
provide product details to the National Poisons Register. The contract number is (02)
9515 1267.

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Assessment 2
RESEARCH PROJECT A
1. Immunization: it is a process where individually any person’s immune system has been
fortified against an agent which is also called immunogenic. It helps to protect children
from harmful infections or diseases before it affects their body. It us basically provided to
the children through a vaccination process which helps to prepare the body’s immune
system. There are several diseases can be prevented through the immunization which are
rubella, diphtheria, whooping cough, , tetanus, measles, mumps, poliomyelitis (polio)
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and hepatitis B.
2. Process of immunization: it is basically works through a vaccination process by inject it
in a child’s body. When the child is injected or provided through polio drops it
automatically produces the immune response following exposure to a disease. It creates a
immune systems for the body. If in future the body makes contact with any disease then it
will make the immune response very fast before the person fall sick due to the disease.
3. Vaccines: it is a process of a biological preparation which helps to form a acquired
immunity for a particular disease. It is a form of bacteria or virus which can be injected to
the body for prevent an infection. It is contains with an agent called microorganism
which make the killed the toxins and through the stimulation of the agent the immune
system recognize the cells and destroy those infected parts. it helps to protects the future
infection also in the body.
4. Reason of immunization: we should immunize our children because it helps to prevents
from any disease which may cause unpleasant and serious infectious diseases and it may

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have a long term of side effects. It creates a safety zone for the children from any diseases
in the society. More the children immunized, the chances of diseases will increased.
Sometimes a childhood infection causes disabilities for the children which could have
long term of side effects or causes death.
RESEARCH PROJECT B
One of the examples of the emergency evacuation procedure is the communication and
display of emergency and evacuation procedures. In this procedure approved provider and
nominated supervisor will take initial steps which will prevent risks in emergency situation for
the staffs and children. They must make it sure that the whole emergency procedures are
displayed a wide prominent place near the exit area and all the staffs must aware about it. It is
also important that the all staffs are must trained in those emergency procedures and they have a
habit of regular practices of that. It is also important that the all the stuff should have knowledge
about the emergency evacuation points. Therefore it is also need to mention that the guardians of
the children are also aware about the place of emergency evacuation. The more the supervisor
and staffs are became aware about the emergency evacuation procedure, more it will make sure
the proper safety towards the children.
It is one of the important emergency evacuations but sometimes due to the lack of
attention, the procedure did not apply in a proper way which causes damages. This is necessary
for the staffs that they must ensure the safety procedure in the emergency situation.