CSTF Health, Safety and Welfare

Objectives

• Understand the organisation's commitment to delivering services safely
• Understand the importance of acting in ways that are consistent with legislation, policies and procedures for maintaining own and others health and safety
• Know the organisation's arrangements for consulting with employees on health and safety matters
• Be able to locate the organisation's health and safety policy and the arrangements for implementing it
• Understand the meaning of hazard, risk and risk assessment
• Be able to recognise common work place hazards including: electricity, slips, trips and falls, chemicals and substances, stress, physical and verbal abuse, traffic routes, VDUs workstations and the working environment
• Understand how any identified risks might be managed through balanced and appropriate preventive and protective measures
• Understand how they could apply and promote safe working practices specific to their job role
• Know the actions they should take to ensure patient safety
• Understand the importance of reporting health and safety concerns
• Know the reporting processes used how the organisation uses the information gathered to help manage risks
• Know how to raise health and safety concerns
• Understand individual responsibilities in reporting incidents, ill health and near misses