Belfast City Council Level 3 Playwork Upskilling Academy – Health & Safety

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Belfast City Council Level 3 Playwork Upskilling Academy – Health & Safety

Available from multiple providers

Earners of this badge have the knowledge & understanding that a playworker requires to maintain health, safety and welfare in a play environment.

Criteria

Available by application only, please contact the provider for more information.

Earner has demonstrated their research, summarising, health & safety and manual handling skills when devising and completing a report. Earner has researched the statutory and regulatory requirements, in relation to health & safety, manual handling, and summarised the associated risks in a play setting e.g. lifting children & ensuring doors are closed. Earner has also explained security procedures to follow when children are arriving/leaving the setting, and how to safely store and administer medication.

Earner has demonstrated their risk management, risk benefit and recording & reporting skills when completing a risk analysis for an outing. Earner has explained and assessed the likelihood of harm and detailed mitigations to limit this. The benefits of taking the risk were also outlined and compared. Earner has summarised their findings and concluded by explaining their rationale as to why the trip was still going ahead.

Earner has demonstrated their understanding of how to obtain information about individual needs, capabilities and interests of children and young people with disabilities, and those with special educational needs. Earner has carried out an interview with educational professionals and produced a written report to evidence this learning.

Earner has demonstrated their hygiene practices and food handling skills when creating a poster to promote appropriate infection control procedures in the play environment. Earner has highlighted best practice in relation to food handling techniques and they included information relating to allergy awareness. Appropriate waste disposal was also promoted via the posters e.g. specific disposal requirements for soiled items/bodily fluids.

Available by application only, please contact the provider for more information

89 Malone Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT9 6SP