Policies and procedures for managing health and safety in services

Are you looking to complete an online infection prevention course? This qualification aims to prepare you for tackling the outbreak of infection in hospitals and healthcare settings by aiding you in understanding the many causes of infection and how it can be spread, as well as how you can help control it.

This course is designed for those who are looking to become a certified DSE assessor in their workplace. It is applicable to any environment in which DSE is used. No previous knowledge is required and so anyone at any level of their business can take this course.

This in-person course covers the essential elements of food safety to enable you to safely prepare and handle food and to support people with their nutrition and hydration needs.

The course is funded for adult social care staff working for Brighton and Hove City Council, and staff working in adult social care provider services that contract with Brighton and Hove City Council.

West Sussex County Council are providing health and social care services with the following ‘Preventing Infection Workbooks’ for free:

• The 11th Edition of Preventing Infection Workbooks Guidance for Care Homes
• The 2nd Edition of Preventing Infection Workbooks Guidance for Domiciliary Care Staff

What do the booklets cover?

• Latest national guidance
• Evidence-based information
• 18 topics including the 10 Standard infection control precautions, aseptic technique, specimen collection, preventing a UTI, urinary catheter care, viral gastroenteritis/norovirus, clostridioides difficile, M.R.S.A. and M.R.G.N.B.

To request for copies of this workbook, please contact WSCC via email at: [email protected].

This Health and Safety Training for Managers course is suitable for all employers, managers, and supervisors and is intended to help them with their responsibility of ensuring and maintaining high health and safety standards at work. This includes those who have responsibility for training employees, maintaining health and safety standards, and enforcing a positive health and safety culture at work.

The main focus of this area of inspection is the risk assessment process and how you involve the people you support in deciding what’s appropriate, ensuring you and your staff teams help and document this. This focus also includes your ability to review risks and support longer-term improvement, as well as the safety of the equipment and your staff’s ability to use it.