Health & Safety Good Practice Guidance and Mandatory Training

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Health & Safety Good Practice Guidance and Mandatory Training

This page provides you with an easy guide to the health and safety standards for your service and what training you might require.

A series of Health and Safety Flow Charts provide managers with sufficient information to identify the mandatory health & safety learning needs for staff and how these needs may be met and how often they should be refreshed image - PDF icon (10KB - pdf help).

Health and Safety programmes aimed at provider staff include:

Conflict Resolution
Infection Control
Food Hygiene
Moving and Handling Induction
Moving and Handling Refresher

To see what dates are available on any of these programmes please visit our online booking system.

CQC (Care Quality Commission) Standards

A link to the National Minimum Standards for:

Care homes for older people (65+)
Care homes for adults (18-65)
Domiciliary Care (Home Care)

Attitudes and Values

How can we ensure staff have the ‘right’ attitudes and values?

Supporting people who may be distressed

Closely linked to ‘values and attitudes’ is knowledge and skills to prevent people becoming distressed and in identifying and giving additional support when people are distressed.

Managing Resources

Legionella
Asbestos
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007
Fire safety
County Risk Management processes

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Private, Voluntary sector and Independent providers can access the Learning Gallery through Devon Care Training membership:
NHS/Devon Partnership Trust staff can apply to join by emailing: lgallery@devon.gov.uk
Carers are welcome to join the Learning Gallery through their Carer’s Development Worker.
Devon County Council staff can visit the Learning Gallery webpages

Also

FREE INFECTION CONTROL DVD AVAILABLE TO CARE HOMES IN THE STATUTORY, PRIVATE, VOLUNTARY AND INDEPENDENT SECTORS

The Health Protection Agency produced a DVD entitled "Introduction to infection control in care homes".

The DVD is designed to be used as a resource to supplement existing training programmes; for example, it can be used as part of an induction programme or as a refresher in this topic area.

The DVD lasts for approximately 40 minutes and is divided into the following seven sections: