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Safety in a Home Care setting
Safety in a Home Care Setting
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- Health and Safety Clickview-This programme is designed exclusively for those providing care within the domiciliary setting and explores health and safety within the service users own home. In considering the home carer’s duty of care to service user and self, it aims to improve awareness of common hazards about the home whilst considering the importance of referring to risk assessments and care plans. It discusses the need for improved awareness of the importance of good housekeeping when storing or disposing of chemicals, dangerous substances or sharp objects and develops an awareness of the need for safe practice in moving and handling, food hygiene, infection control and fire safety. The video goes on to briefly introduce the need to consider personal safety when visiting service users homes and the importance of raising issues of concern with management and reporting injury and ill health. Rating: E Production Year: 2006 Duration: 24:31
- Fire Safety Clickview- Designed exclusively for those providing care within the Home Care setting, this title explores fire safety within the homes of the individuals receiving support. In focusing on fire prevention principles and home carer obligations, it introduces the four elements that come together to start a fire (known as the fire tetrahedron) and considers common causes of fire within the domestic setting. This video helps to improve awareness of the importance of good housekeeping as part of an effective approach towards fire prevention and develops an understanding of how to respond in the event of an emergency.
- Food Safety Clickview-Designed exclusively for those providing care within the Home Care setting, this title explores the vital role home carers have in making sure that they prepare food that is safe to eat. It covers the range of factors that home carers must appreciate when preparing food for individuals, and aims to consider the causes and effects of food poisoning. The video also helps you to develop an understanding of how to handle, store and prepare food properly and improves awareness of the importance of good personal hygiene, including when it is essential to wash hands. Also explored is the need for working within a clean kitchen environment.
- Infection Prevention and Control Clickview-Infection prevention and control (IPC) is a key element identified by Skills for Care and is vital to the well-being of people that need support and their care workers. Good IPC is essential. This domiciliary care based training resource provides substantial support in making sure staff understand and comply with legal obligations, as well as significantly improving staff skills and knowledge in this area.
- Lone Worker Clickview-Many care workers involved with domiciliary care are exposed to the increased risks of working alone. This programme will give essential guidance to any staff members that may have to work by themselves. It will increase their awareness of the risks involved with lone working and demonstrate how to minimise those risks and increase their safety.
- Medication Clickview-This title will cover the key elements staff should be aware of when dealing with medication in the domiciliary setting. Mapped to the Care Certificate, QCF learning points and SCIF Standards, this will prove to be an invaluable training resource. Beginning with an explanation of the legislation that will affect care workers and continuing by explaining the role and responsibilities of the carer, this title is a vital tool for managers and trainers who need to deliver training in this important area of service delivery.
- Risk Assessment Clickview-An understanding of Health and Safety Risk Assessment will provide the basis of safe working for all your staff. This training resource will help care workers understand how to carry out risk assessments, as well as enable staff to understand what a risk assessment is and how it is vital for all staff to contribute towards keeping risk assessments up to date.
- Emergency First Aid in the Care Home Clickview-Every workplace must make provisions for emergency first aid and this video explains the basic procedures involved in the most common emergency first aid situations. All basic first aid procedures are examined, including what to do if you come across an emergency situation, how to treat various types of casualties and how to record any incidents that have taken place. This video follows guidelines and procedures issued by the British Red Cross, St. John Ambulance and the Resuscitation Council (UK).
- Emergency First Aid for Care Workers Clickview-All basic first aid procedures are examined, including what to do if you come across an emergency situation, how to treat various types of casualties and how to record any incidents that have taken place. This video follows guidelines and procedures issued by the British Red Cross, St. John Ambulance and the latest Resuscitation Council Guidelines (UK).
- Raising Concerns and Whistleblowing Clickview-As a social care worker or volunteer, your first responsibility is to promote the safety and well-being of the individuals you support, protecting them from danger, harm and abuse at all times. In part this is achieved when you come across a situation that causes you concern and you report this to an appropriate person. Designed to give you the confidence that sharing a concern is the right thing to do, this video will help you answer such questions as: Why do I have to raise my concern? How do I raise a concern? Who should I tell? What should I do if my concern is not dealt with appropriately? It starts by exploring how we often raise concerns naturally and informally as part of our day-to-day routine and that this is a positive thing to do. The program then considers what types of concerns you must raise: resource problems; operational difficulties; bad practice. It concludes by looking at where to go for support and the benefits of whistleblowing.
Websites
- Disability Support Toolkit-1800RESPECT website-The Disability Support Toolkit has resources for frontline workers supporting people with disability who have been impacted by violence and abuse.
- Equip Aged Care Learning Packages The Equip Aged Care Learning Introductory Package will offer new starters in the aged care workforce, and those seeking employment in the sector, the opportunity to gain essential knowledge about aged care.
- Incident management and reportable incidents-NDIS Commission website-NDIS Commission-Managing incidents effectively is an essential part of providing quality and safe disability supports and services. All NDIS providers have obligations under the NDIS Code of Conduct
- Research Report - Nature and extent of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation against people with disability in Australia-Disability Royal Commission website-Research papers (includes Auslan version)
- Safety Planning with People with Disability-1800RESPECT website-"A safety plan for a person with disability needs to be developed with a support service Issues such as communication difficulties, limited mobility or special care requirements can mean that extra planning and support are needed A well designed safety plan should be available in a usable format and be readily accessible by the person intending to use it."
- Staying Safe-AFDO website Australian Federation of Disability Organisations-Information about staying safe and seeking help from abuse.
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Legal Aspects and Policies
- Acts and Regulations - Worksafe Tasmania WorkSafe Tasmania is the part of the Department of Justice that supports the Minister for Building and Construction in the administration of the included laws. (All links are to the Tasmanian Legislation Online website.)
- ANMF Workplace Stress Prevention Position Statement TThis position statement sets out the responsibilities the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) considers employers should meet to fulfil their obligation under workplace health and safety laws to prevent, eliminate and minimise workplace stress. It should be read with the ANMF position statements: Workplace health and safety; Preventing workplace fatigue; Preventing workplace violence and aggression; Preventing workplace sexual harassment; and Preventing workplace bullying.
- First aid in the workplace: Code of practice The code of practice for First aid in the workplace: provides practical guidance on how to manage first aid in the workplace; and how to achieve the standards required under the work health and safety laws; applies to all workplaces; explains how to determine the first aid requirements for your workplace: explains first aid equipment, facilities and training, including first aid kits, signage, procedures and first aiders.
- Tasmanian Legislation Work Health and Safety Act 2012 - The main object of this Act is to provide for a balanced and nationally consistent framework to secure the health and safety of workers and workplaces
- WHS Duty holders in Australian law Under Australian WHS law, duty holders are people that are responsible for ensuring the safety of a group of people or an organisation.
Risk Management - Safe Work
Risk Management
- Low job control and death – Australian study finds a link Certain work stressors have been connected to health, sick leave and presenteeism, but this study wanted to know their impact on mortality. (2020)
- Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks This model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance for persons who have duties to manage risks to health and safety under the WHS Act and Regulations applying in a jurisdiction
- Nurses at Risk of Injuries - Database Article General OneFile Database : Article from: Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal(Vol. 23, Issue 2)
- Risk Assessment - Clickview Video An understanding of Health and Safety Risk Assessment will provide the basis of safe working for all your staff. This training resource will help care workers understand how to carry out risk assessments, as well as enable staff to understand what a risk assessment is and how it is vital for all staff to contribute towards keeping risk assessments up to date.
- Risk Management for Nurses - Clickview Video Nursing, like any job, has its inherent risks. But in nursing, more than other fields, risks present themselves on a daily basis, and the impact of these risks can have serious consequences. It is critically important then for nurses to be aware of the risks around them, and be well equipped to deal with them in the best way possible.
- Safe patient handling - Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation, Vic Branch Policy PDF produced by the ANMF Vic Branch
- Safety Signs Australian safety signs have been categorised into 6 main types in order to apply a consistent design across similar functions. By understanding the types of signs and their purpose, you can determine what you need in your workplace and where to display them.
- Worksafe - Healthcare and hospitals: Safety basics Common hazards and risks in healthcare and hospitals - Health and safety in healthcare and hospitals - Risk management process - Health and safety legal duties
- Duty of Care-WHS Act website: Section 19 of the WHS Act Tasmania "Duty of Care"
Enabling Risk and 'Dignity of Risk'
- Enabling Risk: Putting Positives First website-Enabling Risk: Putting Positives First has been developed specifically for disability support workers. Enabling people to take risks is an integral part of disability support work. It is also important that practice leaders, frontline managers, senior managers are aware of the essentials of enabling risk outlined in this resource as they play a significant role in creating the right environment for support workers to put risk enablement into practice.
- Dignity of Risk-Consumer Dignity and Choice website-Ausmed
- Duty of Care and Dignity of Risk-Interchange WA website-Interchange WA
- Behaviour Support-NDIS website-NDIS: "Behaviour support is about creating individualised strategies for people with disability that are responsive to the person’s needs, in a way that reduces and eliminates the need for the use of regulated restrictive practices."
- Positive Behaviour Support Information Sheet for Disability website_Disability WA Government
Professional Bodies - Safe Work
Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre
- Equip Aged Care Learning Packages The Equip Aged Care Learning Introductory Package will offer new starters in the aged care workforce, and those seeking employment in the sector, the opportunity to gain essential knowledge about aged care.
Professional Bodies
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care The Commission's purpose is to contribute to better health outcomes and experiences for all patients and consumers, and improved value and sustainability in the health system by leading and coordinating national improvements in the safety and quality of health care.
- Australian Safety and Quality Framework for Health Care The Framework sets out twenty-one areas for action that all people in the health system can take to improve the safety and quality of care provided in all healthcare settings over the next decade.
- ComCare Works "with employees and employers to minimise the impact of harm in the workplace, improve recovery at and return to work, and promote the health benefits of work through good work design."
- Safe Work Australia SWA is an Australian government statutory body established in 2008 to develop national policy relating to WHS and workers’ compensation.
- State Insurance Regulatory Body - NSW Workers compensation system.
- Worksafe Smartmove website-SmartMove is a free of charge Work Health and Safety (WHS*) online educational programme for senior high school students, young workers entering the workforce on work placement, work experience, or as school-based trainee/apprentice, and new workers entering the workforce for the first time.
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Manual Handling
- Bed to Chair Transfer - Clickview Video This snippet shows one method of transferring a patient or resident from a bed to a chair. It is relevant for an able-bodied patient with the use of a standing and walking aid. It is important to be aware of the main risk factors to yourself as carer in this task. Manual handling risks can arise due to the awkward positions that a carer may adopt as they assist the patient.
- Bed to Wheelchair Transfer - Clickview Video Shows one method of transferring a patient from a bed to a wheelchair. In this snippet, an electric sling hoist is used to assist the patient. It is important to be aware of the main risk factors to yourself as carer in this task. Manual handling risks can arise due to the need to reach, the low working height involved and awkward positions that a carer may adopt as they assist the patient.
- Making a Bed - Clickview Video This snippet demonstrates the task of bedmaking with two people working together. Bedmaking is a task undertaken regularly and often repeatedly throughout the day. It is important to be aware of the need for good manual handling posture to avoid muscle and back strain. Important points are shown by a pause in the snippet or a symbol to emphasise key points.
- Moving and Handling - Clickview Video Demonstrates how to safely assist service users to move with and without equipment and develops carers’ understanding of how to reduce the risk of back injuries, along with their rights and responsibilities under health and safety law. It also explains the dangers of manual handling of service users and explains why carers cannot safely lift or support the weight of residents.
- Moving and Handling: Assessments - Clickview Video Making proper assessments is an essential part of safe moving and handling practices. This title explains how to conduct several types of assessment and how to be sure that the service user is both protected and encouraged to remain mobile.
- Moving and Handling: Theory - Clickview Video This video will provide a theoretical background to moving and handling to ensure that care workers understand the reasons, both practical and legal, behind safe moving principles. It is filmed in a real working care home and includes animated sequences to illustrate the potential risks of poor manual handling practice to the health of both care workers and service users.
- Moving and Handling: Practical - Clickview Video Focusing on the care home setting, this title will show your staff how to use equipment safely and assist service users in their daily lives.
- Hazardous manual handling: Safety basics (Worksafe Vic) If you lift, lower, push, pull, carry or move something or someone, you may be doing hazardous manual handling. It’s the biggest cause of injuries in Victorian workplaces.
Hand Hygiene
Hand Hygiene
- Effective Hand Hygiene Understanding hand hygiene principles and the importance of timely and effective hand washing is an integral part of infection control standard precautions. This title helps to improve hand hygiene practice by challenging attitudes and encouraging the changing of behaviors, whilst conveying key learning points in an engaging and imaginative manner.
- Hand Hygiene Education - DHHS Tasmania, Public Health Services From this video you will gain an understanding of the importance of hand hygiene as well as knowing when and how to do hand hygiene according to the Hand Hygiene Australia ‘5 moments for hand hygiene’.
- Hand Hygiene Australia HHA supports the improvement of hand hygiene practices as a core strategy in the prevention of infection and the transmission of antimicrobial resistance.
- Hand Disinfection Skill Sheet - Expert in my pocket This skills sheet is from Expert In My Pocket a website of resource "supporting materials to enhance student development of psychomotor clinical skills".
Personal Protection Equipment
PPE - Personal Protection Equipment
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and droplet precautions Alfred Hospital Training Video. NB normally gloves are kept on the trolley outside the room and applied before entering the room.
- Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff A 2018 study into the effectiveness of different types of personal protective equipment. - (PPE).
- Personal Protective Equipment and enteric precautions (as for contact precautions) Alfred Hospital Training Video - NB normally gloves are kept on the trolley outside the room. Re-usable equipment , like the tournequet, are kept in the room and cleaned and removed when patient cleared or discharged.
- Personal Protective Equipment Demonstration Videos These videos demonstrate how to don PPE when using standard, airborne, contact and droplet precautions.