Description

The Qualsafe Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in Health and Social Care (RQF) is ideal for those who work directly with patients or
clients in a health and social care setting, such as hospitals, care homes and day care centers.

This 1 day regulated and nationally recognised qualification is specifically designed to develop candidates’ awareness of health and
safety in a health and social care environment, to help ensure that they are keeping themselves, and the people they care for safe.

What’s Covered?
• Health and safety roles and responsibilities of employers and employees
• Risk assessments

• Principles of risk control hierarchy
• Five-step process of risk assessment
How to identify and control hygiene hazards
• Common hazards in health and social care
• Contamination and cross-contamination
• Infection and cross-infection
• Micro-organisms
• Controls for common microbiological hazards
Personal hygiene
• Hand washing
• Protective clothing and equipment
• Risks of exposure to infectious diseases
Clean working environment
• Suitable premises and equipment
• Cleaning, disinfection, sterilisation and
decontamination
• Storage of cleaning chemicals and cloths
• Procedures for dealing with waste, sharps and spillages