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Posted By Liam
Good Afternoon,
Have any of you ever carried out Risk Assessments and / or prepared safety statements for residential care units?
any guidance appreciated
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Posted By david cairns
Hello Liam
did you work at FAB 24???
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Posted By david cairns
this should have been in the first post SORRY. a friend whom i work with asked the ?? he has just sent you quite a number of files hope they help!!
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Posted By Grant Hutchison
Liam
Firstly get yourself a copy of HSG 220 Health and Safety in Care Homes, HSE Books. Good start point.
In my expeirence the best way to tackle this is to break down the areas of the care home, i.e. kitchen, bathroom, toilets etc. Then you can identify the hazards, evaluate the risk and decide what controls have to be implemented to reduce the risk.
If you are multi site then the issue of who is going to actually carry out the risk assessments has to be addressed(CARE HOUSE MANAGER), what traing they will require, support, information, instruction and supervision.
If you contact me I could discuss further.
Grant
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Posted By Fiona Cowan
Liam
The Nursing Home e-tool is extremely user friendly and interactive on the osha site.
Although for the US it breaks the home down by ares, tasks and people.
www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/nursinghome/index.html.
regards
Fiona
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