Are your premises safe and suitable?

Your practice has access to the EduCare for Health online learning service that covers essential duty of care subjects. But did you know that it can help you to comply with the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) guidance* on ensuring the safety and suitability of your premises?

There are 16 core quality and safety standards and Outcome 10 states that you have a duty to ensure that service users and others having access to your premises are protected against the risks associated with unsafe or unsuitable premises.

Your EduCare for Health online learning service contains 12 courses that everyone in your practice can undertake. Two of them relate specifically to the physical and operational safety and security of your premises, as follows:

1. EduCare Health & Safety

   
   

   This online learning course looks at why health and safety is so important. There is a run-down of common health and safety hazards and it gives you a step-by-step plan of how to conduct a risk assessment that will enable you to put preventative measures in place to protect staff and service users. It will also teach you how to draw up safety management systems and policies and involve staff in health and safety. This six-module course is mapped to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health standards.

   
   

2. Safety in Business – Safeguarding People and Productivity

   
   

   This four-module course uniquely blends risk assessment with crime prevention, health and safety, fire safety and personal safety and shows how you can simply but effectively introduce best practice into your business.

Both the ‘EduCare Health and Safety’ and ‘Safety in Business – Safeguarding People and Productivity’ courses have downloadable certificates for successful participants and they have been independently verified as counting towards continuing professional development.

Please encourage everyone in your practice to make full use of the EduCare for Health online learning service to ensure you comply with the CQC guidance.

Click here to log in and see the courses or to add new users.

*Guidance about compliance. Essential Standards of Quality and Safety. What providers should do to comply with the section 20 regulations of the Health and Social Care Act 2008. March 2010.To view the document please click here.

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