Risk Assessment for Early Years Online

Risk Assessment for Early Years

Risk Assessment for Early Years is aimed at everyone working in Early Years settings including childminders and nursery staff. It is all about anticipating what could happen, and forward planning for any sort of situation imaginable.

Children can be clumsy, falling over their feet and sometimes injuring themselves. If your organisation has the responsibility of caring for children, then a risk assessment is the first stage to ensuring this is done in an appropriate and effective manner. The assessments initially identify all of the potential hazards within a childcare facility. Following the identification of hazards, control measures must be implemented to protect the children, as well as the adults involved in protecting children, and make them aware of these hazards or subsequently shield them from such hazards.

Course Content

• The importance of responsibility for carrying out risk assessments
• The 5 steps of risk assessment
• Step 1 – Identify the hazards
• Step 2 – Decide who might be harmed and how
• Step 3 – Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
• Step 4 – Record your findings, develop an action plan and put it into action
• Step 5 – Regularly review your assessment and update, if necessary Ofsted Inspection and Risk Assessment Focus on the risks of slips, trips and falls

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course the learner should be able to:

• Understand the importance of risk assessment
• Identify hazards and evaluate risk
• Describe how to carry out a risk assessment
• Explain the review process

Duration: 1-2 hours

Cost: £25 (per person) – On booking this course you will receive an invoice of which once we are in receipt of full payment we will send your e-learn link along with instructions of access.

Access: This online course can be completed on any PC or mobile device. Study at your own pace and log in and out as often as you wish

Features: Appeals to all learning styles with interactive quizzes, video and audio features. Allows you to work at your own pace, testing your knowledge as you progress through the course

Certification: On successful completion, you can download a certificate as evidence that you have passed the course.

Assessment: Self checks after each section of the course and a short end of course multiple choice assessment

Accreditation: This course has been approved by the CPD Accreditation Group