Supporting Children and Young People's Health and Safety

The assignment focuses on the key factors affecting healthy and safe indoor environments and services, as well as the implementation of current health and safety legislation, policies, and procedures. It also explores the importance of taking a balance approach to risk management and supporting children and young people in assessing and managing risks.

SUPPORT CHILDREN AND YOUNG
PEOPLE'S HEALTH AND SAFETY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.1 Factors affecting healthy and safe indoor environments and services.............................1
1.2 Aware of risks and hazards and encouraged to work safely............................................1
1.3 Current guidance for planning healthy and safe environments and services...................1
1.4 Implementation of current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures in own
work........................................................................................................................................1
2.4 Assessment of health and safety risk................................................................................1
3.1 Taking balance approach to risk management.................................................................1
3.2 Dilemma between rights and choices of children and young people...............................2
3.3 Example of supporting children or young people to assess and manage risk.................2
4.1 Policies and procedures in response to accidents, emergencies and illness.....................2
4.2 Correct procedures for reporting accidents, incidents, and emergencies.........................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

1.1 Factors affecting healthy and safe indoor environments and services
Every human being is gifted with one of the most important qualities that are called
common sense. It’s very important to take care of safety measures inside home and outside
home. The safety measures are needed to take into account according to differing needs, specific
needs and special needs (Wren, 2017).
1.2 Aware of risks and hazards and encouraged to work safely
All the programs and training should be provided to everyone. Safety measures should be
taught to children about how they may be safe in school time and while playing outside the
home.
1.3 Current guidance for planning healthy and safe environments and services
There are following educational settings that can be accounted for healthy and safe
environment like Health and safety executive, department of education, The British Red Cross,
British Standards Institute, Child Accident Prevention, Early Years Foundation Stage, Royal
Society for the prevention of Accidents (Hannigan,and Edwards , 2015).
1.4 Implementation of current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures in own work
There are several pieces of legislation such as: The Health and Safety at work act 1974,
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, The Manual Handling
Operations Regulations act 1992, The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous
Occurrences Regulations act 1995.
2.4 Assessment of health and safety risk
All assessment of health and risk should be monitored by adopting following steps.
Anything that may cause harm should be identified and should always be in mind that may be
harmed by hazards, the risk should be assessed and actions must be applied according to that,
record of risk finding is maintained, risk assessment should be reviewed and analysed
(Wiegmann and Shappell, 2017).
3.1 Taking balance approach to risk management
It is important to take a balance approach to risk management to prevent the loss of
assets and lives .. Risks cannot be eliminated but it can be minimized so that our generation can
grow and learn about this world.
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3.2 Dilemma between rights and choices of children and young people
Several new activities are done by children to improve themselves but this creates
conflicts between rights of children and duty care of young people (Grote,, 2015). Therefore, the
risk assessments on the activities and surroundings must be done so that rights and choices can
be preserved.
3.3 Example of supporting children or young people to assess and manage risk
Different kinds of medicines were placed in house and a child was playing there it would
be possible that those medicines are not recommended for small children so placed those
medicines from the outreach of that child.
4.1 Policies and procedures in response to accidents, emergencies and illness
The main policies are health insurance and health polices like NHS system include
Primary Healthcare Policy. Others are British Red Cross, St. Andrews Ambulance Association
etc.
People should be calm and conscious during emergencies. active (Duff and Shoveller 2015.).
4.2 Correct procedures for reporting accidents, incidents, and emergencies.
A person must have all emergencies number to contact local caring services. All the
basic personal information should be with a man like name, date of birth, blood group etc.
Accidents that are occurred in public should be informed quickly to hospitals and police.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Duff, P., Shoveller, J., and et.al., 2015. The relationship between social, policy and physical
venue features and social cohesion on condom use for pregnancy prevention among sex
workers: a safer indoor work environment scale. J Epidemiol Community Health. 69(7).
pp.666-672.
Grote, G., 2015. Promoting safety by increasing uncertainty–Implications for risk
management. Safety science. 71. pp.71-79.
Hannigan, B., Edwards, D., and et.al., 2015. Introduction.
Wiegmann, D. A. and Shappell, S. A., 2017. A human error approach to aviation accident
analysis: The human factors analysis and classification system. Routledge.
Wren, M. A., 2017. Unhealthy state: anatomy of a sick society. Cancer.
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