Assessing H&S in practice

Re: Assessing H&S in practice

samantha morgan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:42:17 GMT

Thank you all for all your suggestions and inspirations!

Re: Assessing H&S in practice

Gillian Mostyn — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:11:55 GMT

I do an observed assessment for my students. They clean and sort the op room and radiography room after a busy morning. There were more than enough hazards around to cover most of the points in 2.1 and 2.2 (xray chemicals, sharps, using equipment correctly, moving equipment....the list goes on!) That way I filled in the forms to cover as much as I could - they just had to fill in a few of the gaps with other assessments and a candidate narrative to cover the K+U. You can also use simulations at the end to cover the 'incidents' in 2.2 - one of the rare times these are accepted.

Re: Assessing H&S in practice

Emma Jarratt — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:09:02 GMT

For my first level 2 student we've used

including specific instances in nursing case candidate narratives where possible
writing a general risk assessment for a specific area of the practice chosen by the student (she chose prep room)
writing a 'health and safety' appendix to cover some k&u, this also covers all h&s k&u points throughout all units (do check with your own IV they find this acceptable). Basically she identified all the regulations/legislation we have to abide by, explained how they affect veterinary practice and listed examples of how she follows them in her work
including a human first aid case (candidate narrative + copy of accident book filled in)
finally some straight written questions to cover a few remaining k+u

And we're also planning to do a 'manual handling' direct observation case, of her handling heavy objects eg moving gas cannisters using the cart or carrying a heavy dog using a stretcher, and we can include photos of this too for variety of evidence.

Hope this helps!

Re: Assessing H&S in practice

Teh Fluffeh — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:19:49 GMT

I've been writing some up for NVQ2 this week and have been using the risk assessments we have on the wall a lot and explaining why we have them, why they're useful etc...I also used the fact that we had a snowday on Monday, so had to keep the floor dry by various methods and keep the wet floor sign out all day. I'm writing up a clinical waste protocol to use as an appendix so I don't have to keep referring to it.

Re: Assessing H&S in practice

loobylou — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:19:34 GMT

My student has just written up a barrier nursing case which talked about foot baths etc. I got her to do a risk assessment for the kennel area in this situation and she has covered quite a lot of 2.1 and 2.2 by doing this. Although Im not sure how she will cover the remaining bits, some are worded so strangely!!