January Ocampo

Module A Workbook – Children’s health and safety Learner Name: Learner ID: Date: The following resources will help you work through the questions and activities in this section: Module A Learner Guide Guide to the National Quality Standards Guide to the Education and Care Services National Law and National Regulations National Health and Medical Research Council’s Staying Healthy: Preventing infectious diseases in early childhood education and care services (5th Edition) Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s publication, Safe Toys for Kids Australian Dietary Guidelines and Infant Feeding Guidelines Your service’s standards, policies and procedures Internet Part 1: Competency Questions Providing a clean and safe environment for children and staff in an early childhood education and care service  State/territory legislation and how it impacts workplace regulations, codes or practice and industry standards A1: What state/territory legislation on work health and safety applies to your education and care service? A2: Where are the work health and safety procedures located in your service? A3: Read through the work health and safety policy and procedures of your service and answer the following questions. A3.1: Provide a summary of the work health and safety procedures in your service. A3.2: Does the policy give specific procedures on what to do when accidents and injuries occur to children, educators, staff and other stakeholders within the premises of the service? What are they? A4: Please refer to the National Quality Standards Guide. List all quality standards, elements or information relevant to children’s health and safety. 3 PHYSICAL ENVIRON Identifying potential hazards that may harm children and staff A5: Give the definition of the term hazard. A6: List one example of a medical condition that is a potential hazard in your service. How is this condition a potential hazard? A7: List two other hazards to children in your service. A8: Answer the questions below that relate to potential hazards to early childhood educators and staff in your service. A8.1: Give examples of hazardous manual tasks educators and staff are exposed to. A8.2: What other hazards are educators and staff exposed to? A8.3: Workplace stress is a hazard that early childhood educators also need to address. How do you personally minimise workplace stress and eventual burn-out? Do you think it’s important to talk about this (to) with your supervisors? Why? A9: How are potential hazards in the learning environment such as the playground and learning areas identified in your education and care service? A10: How often are safety checks of your indoor and outdoor environment and equipment done in your service? A11: Does your service have a safety inspection form for your service’s indoor and outdoor environment and equipment? If your service has a form, please scan and upload it in the eLearning Area with this workbook (once completed). If not, try to source one online. This task will give you an idea on what should be inspected for everyone’s health and safety. A12: Observe children with the toys they play with in your service. What toys are most commonly played with? How do you make sure these toys are safe? You may refer to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s publication, Safe Toys for Kids. A13: Complete the table below on the use of safety signs in your service. Give at least one for each category. Safety Sign (You may take a picture of the safety sign or you may source a similar one online. Just copy and paste the image.) Area in the service where this is found Specific reason for the safety sign Sign for dangerous goods classification Sign for emergency equipment Sign for personal protective equipment (PPE) Sign for special hazards such as sharps, radiation Safety issues/risk management strategies for children’s health and safety A14: Answer the following questions that relate to how you would personally ensure children’s health and safety in your service. A14.1: How do you support each child’s individual health needs? When answering, make sure to take into consideration the following practices: communicating with families about children’s health needs maintaining confidentiality in relation to children’s individual health needs A14.2: How do you provide opportunities to meet each child’s need for sleep, rest and relaxation? A14.3: What is the importance of respecting children's needs for privacy during any toileting and dressing and undressing times? A14.4: How do you make sure children’s and families’ individual clothing needs and preferences are met, to promote children’s comfort, safety and protection within the scope of the service requirements for children’s health and safety? A14.5: Learner Guide A1 lists three practices that educators can use to make sure that supervision of children is done to required standards. What are they? A14.6: How do you support children to learn about and make personal hygiene practices a daily habit? A15: The next questions will require you to research into your service’s various policy and procedures. Identify the policy the question requires and provide specific procedures. A15.1: What policy or procedures does your service have on hygiene standards, including procedures on maintaining service cleanliness? A15.2: What policy or procedures does your service have on the use and storage of poisonous and dangerous products such as cleaning products, garden and pest control chemicals, medications and sharp objects? A15.3: What policy or procedures does your service have on sun safety? A15.4: What policy or procedures does your service have for the safe collection of each child? A15.5: What policy or procedures does your service have for the supervision of every person who enters the service premises where children are present? A16: Please refer to National Health and Medical Research Council’s Staying Healthy: Preventing infectious diseases in early childhood education and care services (5th Edition). What strategies are provided with regards to infection control? A17: Does your service follow the National Health and Medical Research Council’s strategies for infection control? List your service’s guidelines or procedures that are in accordance with NHMRC’s strategies. Responding to signs and symptoms of illness in children A18: What does your services policy and procedures tell you to do when a child in the service appears to be unwell? A19: There will be times when early childhood educators need to administer medication as requested by a parent or a primary caregiver. What information should be included in the written authorisation form to administer medication from the parent or guardian? A20: According to the Guide to the Education and Care Services National Law and National Regulations, how should medication be administered to children? Are your service’s policy and procedures on how medication labels should be checked in accordance to the Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations? A21: How do you make sure the dosage you give a child is accurate? List the steps you must take. A22: What are the common signs and symptoms of an allergy? A23: Explain the importance of why early childhood educators and staff need to be aware of any food allergies or food intolerances children may have in the service. A24: What is anaphylaxis? What are the signs and symptoms? A25: What policy or procedures does your service have concerning management of allergies and anaphylaxis? Please include procedures on medical management plans. If these procedures are not included in the policy, please interview your supervisor on what protocols they may have in place. A26: Do the policy and procedures you have listed in the previous question include guidelines on using an EpiPen (adrenalin auto injector) for anaphylaxis? Who can administer the EpiPen? How should this be administered? If the policy does not provide guidelines, do some online research into this. Don’t forget to cite your source. A27: What are the common signs and symptoms of asthma? What are the common triggers? A28: What policy or procedures does your service have concerning management of asthma? Please include procedures on medical management plans. If the service doesn’t have a specific policy on the management of asthma in the centre, ask your supervisor about protocols they may have in place. Responding to emergency situations in an early childhood education and care service  A29: List all emergency situations your workplace have policy and procedures for. A30: Provide a summary of the workplace emergency procedures for each of the emergency situation you have listed in A29. A31: What emergency equipment is available to educators and staff in your service? A32: List 3 things that you do to ensure basic home fire safety. Planning and providing healthy food and drinks for children A33: Please refer to the following resources. List all quality standards, elements or information relevant to providing healthy, nutritious food and embedding healthy eating in children. A33.1: Guide to the National Quality Standards A33.2: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child A34: List all five Australian Dietary Guidelines relevant to children. A35: What does the Infant Feeding Guidelines say about the following? A35.1: Breastfeeding A35.2: Infant formula A35.3: Other fluids in infant feeding A35.4: Age-appropriate introduction of solids A36: Take a look at your service’s policy and procedures on food and nutrition. A36.1: How does your service ensure that children’s individual needs are consistent with advice provided by families about their child’s dietary requirements, likes, dislikes and any cultural or other requirements families have regarding their child’s nutrition? A36.2: Take a look at Early Childhood Australia’s Code of Ethics. Which ethical responsibility to families underpin the importance of creating consistency between home and care nutrition? A36.3: How does your service provide education and support to families around healthy eating? A37: Why is it important to promote healthy eating in your service? What are the implications of a poor diet? A38: Does your service promote awareness for the children’s oral health? What are the strategies they have for this? If not do some online research and list relevant information on oral health recommendations in Australia. Don’t forget to cite your sources. A39: Do online research about guidelines your state or territory’s food safety regulator require education and care services to follow with regards to the following: A39.1: Handling and preparing food A39.2: Storing food e.g. list of potentially hazardous food, temperature control A39.3: Addressing personal hygiene or health conditions that may affect safe and healthy food handling A39.4: What is the importance of hygiene in food preparation? List all possible situations when food handlers should wash their hands. A40: Which is healthier for the children? The Cinnamon Raisin English muffins or Whole Wheat English muffins? Read the food labels in the next pages and decide. Explain what it is in the food labels that made you reach your decision. Cinnamon Raisin English Muffins Ingredients: UNBLEACHED ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, REDUCED IRON, NIACIN, THIAMIN MONONITRATE (VITAMIN B1), RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2), FOLIC ACID], WATER, RAISINS, SUGAR, FARINA, YEAST, SALT, SOYBEAN OIL, CINNAMON, CALCIUM PROPIONATE (PRESERVATIVE), SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, CALCIUM SULFATE, XANTHAN GUM, CORN SYRUP, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, VITAMIN E, NONFAT MILK, SOY FLOUR, WHEY. Whole Wheat English Muffins Ingredients: WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR , WATER, YEAST, WHEAT GLUTEN, FARINA, SUGAR, SALT, CRACKED WHEAT, PRESERVATIVES (CALCIUMPROPIONATE, SORBIC ACID), GRAIN VINEGAR, CALCIUM SULFATE, SOYBEAN OIL, WHEAT STARCH, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES,DATEM, NATURAL FLAVOR, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, ETHOXYLATED MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, DEXTROSE, WHEAT SOUR,GUAR GUM, LACTIC ACID, MOLASSES, FUMARIC ACID, AZODICARBONAMIDE, WHEY, SOY FLOUR*, CARAMEL COLOR, ACETIC ACID,SUCRALOSE, NONFAT MILK.*TRIVIAL AMOUNT OF SOY FLOUR Part 2: Self reflection Provide a short overview of what you have learned in this module, Children’s health and safety, and how it will assist you in your role as an early childhood educator. (Your response must be at least 300 words). Part 3: Assessment Feedback (optional) To help us improve this assessment process for future learners please let us know what you thought about it. What did you like about this assessment? What didn't you like about this assessment? 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