How are standards maintained and checked in a home based childcare?

If you are sending your child in home based child care, you must have to ensure the health and safety standard there. This place needs to be regulated to safeguard because kids are susceptible and careless. So this is your responsibility to protect them by any harm to maximise their learning opportunities.

It is essential for your child experience, learn and grow in a safe and innovative environment. Every place from their play-ground to their nap-areas should be designed and checked adequately to minimise the risk and harm.

That is the responsibility of each employee and educators to maintain well the working environment. Where your kids can learn without any obstacles and risk?  You have to check the learning experiences and stimulating for young learners. To do so, your caregiver must have to follow specific rules and procedures.

Risk management and safety checklist in childcare

Home Child Care centres must have to identify any risks within the environment and maintain them appropriately.

The risk management process involves:

• ·         Identify hazards in the workplace.
• ·         Assess the risks associated with the hazards
• ·         Control the risks
• ·         Monitor and review risk control

Maintaining or managing any risk in childcare that involves any service related to children and educators are present. Whether it is an early childhood service, in home childcare service, or even in public during activities or drives. To make sure caregivers must have a safety checklist and identify their hazards.

How to checked risks in childcare centres?

• ·         Check indoor and outdoor areas regularly
• ·         Report if any risks or accidents that may occur
• ·         Safety audits
• ·         Food safety plan
• ·         Infection control policy and procedures

Control or manage the risk

After identifying the risks in your childcare centres, the daycare centres need to control and manage all the risks. Somehow staff may control these risks include:

• ·         Eliminate: remove the hazard

    Remove clutter, tripping dangers and equipment that may cause injury

• ·         Modify: change with something less dangerous

    Replace toxic chemicals with organic ones, or if any sharp objects are present replace with soft ones

• ·         Isolate: take off from contact with people

    Lock away medication and other chemicals substance that they should not be in touch with the kids

• ·         Plan: redesign the equipment and use safety guards

    Use childproof locks and guards for power points etc.

• ·         Control: policies, procedures, training and supervision

    Staff induction, WH&S (Work Health and Safety) training and food safety programs

• ·         Equipment: barriers between hazards and people

    Use gloves, hairnets, aprons, sunscreen and sun hats

At Home2Grow, we ensure every parent your child is in faithful hands. We achieved this after comprehensive training and keeping up with the latest industry requirements. We know the essential role of kids learning environments play in our day to day operations. And, this is our responsibility to ensure they are safe, inviting and refreshing. Do you want to know more? Contact our team on 0508 466 324. We assure you would love our services.