eCPD Resource - Health and Safety

Health and Social Care

Introduction 1

eCPD Resource- Health and Social

Care- Health and Safety

Health & Safety

This activity will take place within the second month while

you are on placement in your setting. Your activities will include:

• Researching health and safety

• Reading the policy

• Understanding some signs and their meanings

Learning

In this task, you will be covering the following areas:

Health and Social Care

•Health and safety

Functional skills English

• Read and understand different types of text in detail.

Identify the main points and ideas and how they are

presented in a variety of different types of texts

• Use language, format and structure suitable for purpose

and audience

• Write clearly and coherently, including an appropriate

level of detail

• Ensure written work includes generally accurate punctua-

tion and spelling and meaning is clear in more than one

type of text.

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Tasks 2

eCPD Resource

Health and social care

Health and Safety

Task 1

The Health and Social Care setting you are on placement in wants to dis-

play some information signs to help individuals who are to attend an

open day.

Look at the following signs and draw a line to the correct meaning.

Symbols

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Emergency Exit

First Aid

Toilets

No Smoking

Task 2

• Read the policy/guidelines at your placement relating to this.

• Summarise the key points below:

Policy/Guidelines

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Task 3

Please research an item of legislation and policy relating to Health and

Safety in the Health and Social Care Setting and summarise this [Word

count: 250]

Research

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Summary (250 Words)

Task 4

Create a poster about health and

safety in the workplace

Health & Safety

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