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HLTWHS001/HLTWHS001 - Assessment 1.docx HLTWHS001 - Assessment 1 1. Provide an example of three potential hazards that could occur in your service: · Hazard 1 must be a hazard that you can manage yourself. · Hazard 2 must be a hazard that you need to report and record. · Hazard 3 must be a hazard that will lead to an emergency action plan being used. Also include whether the risk is low, medium or high.                              2. Access a copy of your service’s hazard record. Follow the headings on the hazard record sheet and submit the relevant information based on Hazard 2. (as identified in Q.1) 3. Access a copy of the service emergency action plan and policies and procedures, and use it to answer the following two questions. a. What type of emergency action would be taken if Hazard 3 occurred? (Hazard 3 as identified in your response for Q.1) b. What is your role in this emergency plan? 4. How would you know what you should do when participating in an emergency drill? 5. Research the following safety signs and provide a description of what the sign means and what you would use it for in your service. a) b) c) 6. Find out about the WHS authority in your state or territory. What is the name of the health and safety authority relevant to your state or territory? 7. Search the authority website for ‘hazardous manual tasks’. List two (2) resources that would be of value to an early childhood educator and provide a brief overview. 8. Locate two (2) resources that relate to infection control in the childcare setting and provide a brief overview.                                9. Access the Education and Care Services National Regulations and locate Regulation 97. How often must an emergency evacuation procedure be rehearsed and documented? What is the penalty if this does not occur? 10. In your service, signage should be used to indicate where safety equipment is being stored. Describe the sign that identifies the location of first-aid kits. HLTWHS001/HLTWHS001 - Assessment 2.docx HLTWHS001 - Assessment 2 Case Study Kendra, an educator, is concerned as an unused table is sitting in the emergency exit path.   As Kendra lifts the table, she drops it. Kendra is wearing open-toe sandals, so the table leg lands on the big toe of her right foot. Her toe is throbbing, bleeding and bruised and she is crying.   Other educators come to supervise the children, so Sue helps Kendra to the staff room. Sue applies ice to the injured toe and a bandaid to cover the broken skin. Sue also suggests Kendra raises her foot.   After 15 minutes, Kendra is feeling much better. Her toe is sore but is no longer throbbing. She insists on going back to her normal duties. 1. Refer to Case study below to answer the following question: Outline what information should be included in the report relating to this type of injury.   2. Refer to Case study below to answer the following question: Who should Sue report this injury to?   3. Refer to Case study below to answer the following question: What WHS and housekeeping practices could have been applied to ensure this injury did not occur? 4. Refer to Case study below to answer the following question: Outline four (4) steps that could have helped prevent this injury.                                        HLTWHS001/HLTWHS001 - Assessment 3.docx HLTWHS001 - Assessment 3 1. Undertake one (1) of the following: · Attend a workplace meeting where health and safety issues are discussed and take notes of what is discussed.  ' OR · Speak to a supervisor about what was discussed at a recent WHS meeting. Summarise the issues that your supervisor mentioned. What WHS issues were raised? Document these here. 2. Focus on one of the issues raised in question 1 and answer the following: What changes need to be made to address the issue and what workplace policy and procedure needs to be developed and/or implemented to manage this issue? 3. What other ideas could you add to the discussion of WHS issues? 4. What procedure would you follow to report your ideas? HLTWHS001/HLTWHS001 - Assessment 4.docx HLTWHS001 - Assessment 4 1. Research the current safe work practices for a piece of equipment, a workplace system or process in your service. · Record the name of the reference material you found, who produced it, when it was published and where you located it. · Prepare a short summary of the key points in the research. This can be a bulleted list of safe work practices. 2. Reflect on a situation or time when you felt stressed and/or fatigued. Record and then discuss with a person in your workplace how you: · identified the problem · controlled the stress · reduced the stress.                                HLTWHS001/HLTWHS001 - Final Assessment.docx HLTWHS001 - Final Assessment 1. Read the case study, then answer the questions that follow.   Case Study It starts off as a nice sunny day at Begonia Hills Childcare Centre. Most of the children are outside enjoying their activities.   What are three (3) potential hazards that you would have scanned the outdoor environment for prior to the children going outdoors? 2. If you wanted up-to-date information about sun safety, where would you find this? 3. Case study cont’d Part way through the morning, the weather begins to change and a strong wind builds up. It starts to blow dust and leaves around and into the children’s faces. A storm is brewing and it is coming fast. The younger children are taken inside, while the older children help to pack up the equipment. Suddenly rain is lashing at the windows. The children and educators who are caught in the rain outside now run into the room with their clothing and shoes soaked and dripping.     Name one hazard that has been created and how you would rate the risk associated with it. 4. How would you manage this hazard? 5. Case study cont'd The rain is still intense and the wind is driving it under a pergola onto the tiled pavement. Equipment under the pergola has also been knocked over.     What additional hazards have been created and who will you report them to? 6. The centre director asks you to complete a hazard report. Use the following hazard report form as a guide. Outline what information you would provide for the: ·        location of the hazard ·        description of the hazard ·        immediate action taken ·        resolution of the hazard. Begonia Hills Child Care Centre – Hazard report form Time and date the hazard/s occurred 7 March 2014 Location of the hazard/s in the service Description of the hazard/s Immediate action taken to reduce the hazard/s Is the hazard/s resolved? Yes/No Signed 7. Case study cont'd After you complete the hazard report, you return to your room. As you are entering the room, you notice that water is dripping down through several light fittings and the lights are flickering. You report this immediately. The director of the service sounds the alarm as an evacuation needs to take place. She asks you to call the fire brigade.     If you are a student or a volunteer in your service, what is your role in this emergency? 8. What information do you need to give the fire department? 9. Case study cont'd The rain and wind are easing as the emergency evacuation takes place. There are a number of new staff in the service and they are unsure of their role. Some children are upset and others are not clear about what they are meant to be doing. It takes some time to evacuate the building, partly due to the leaking light fittings blocking the usual exit path. As you are moving outside the building, you see Anna, 5 years old, slip and graze her knee.     Access an injury report from your service. List the information from the case study that needs to be included in the report. 10. The next day, a meeting is held to reflect on the incidents. The following issues were identified: · An evacuation has only been practised for a fire in the kitchen or the laundry. · Some staff were unsure of what to do during the evacuation as there was a lack of signage. What safety suggestions could you make at the meeting in relation to these points? 11. Case study cont'd After the meeting, you notice that Sarah, a colleague, is crying. You talk to her and she tells you that she has had trouble sleeping since the incident. She feels anxious and worried that it may happen again. She has recurring headaches that she thinks are from the tension in her neck. She seeks your advice on what to do.     List three (3) signs that may indicate that Sarah is feeling stressed or fatigued.                                12. a) Who should Sarah talk to within your service? b) If she needs support from a WHS authority, who should she contact? 13. Research the following safety signs and provide a description of what each sign means and what you would use it for in your service. a) b) 14. Locate the document ‘Guidance sheet 2: Dangerous Goods Classification System’ on the State Government Victoria website, at: www.vic.gov.au. What would be an example of a Class 2 substance or article that might be on the premises?