Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment (½ day course)

This course is open to all Healthcare Professionals and will cover all aspects of Risk Assessment within their work environments.

Introduction and welcome

Explanation of course
Tutor introduction to delegates (background)
Delegate introduction to each other
Paperwork

AIMS

The aims of the course for participants are:

To provide participants with the relevant knowledge, understanding and practical ability to conduct risk assessments appropriate to the workplace and client group. To enable participants to become familiar with the relevant health and safety legislation. To allow participants to recognise hazards associated with the working environment.

OUTLINE

To achieve these aims participants will consider the following issues relevant to the topic:

Risk assessing people in care in accordance with their care plan

Undertaking risk assessments and their purpose including the following:

Making sense of a situation, for the client and the worker. Building up a picture of what happens, probable causes and probable consequences

Identifying problems or issues of concern to the person seeking help, areas of learning or growth. Relating the service user and the situation to relevant organisational aspects. Identifying strengths both in the person needing help and in his/her situation as resources to draw upon in the work.

Identifying some of the difficulties likely to be encountered in work towards certain goals.

Relevant health and safety legislation

Hazard identification and risk ranking

Risk assessment and control measures

Practical hazard spotting (to consider all aspects of the work place and environments used by the employee and the service user)

Example risk assessment formats.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

To understand the need for risk assessment and the process of conducting a risk assessment

To enable participants to be able to carry out risk assessments in the unit

TEACHING METHODS

The course involves several activities to support the learning and development aspects of this course and will be delivered by a variety of teaching methods including: presentation; small group discussion; whole group discussion; individual work; practical examples and comprehensive handouts.

Written paper/evaluation